The discussion on ‘New Approaches to Political Economy (PE)’ gives us a state-of- the-art overview of the main theoretical and conceptual developments within the concept of political economy. Thereby, it invites us to broaden our knowledge re- garding manifold novel approaches, which make use of more complex methods to study the less stable, less predictable, but faster changing realities of smaller or big- ger geographical regions. In this discussion forum, Amable takes a closer look on the nature of ‘conflict’ as well as the relationship between conflict and institutional change or stability. After stressing the relevance of comparative capitalism in gen- eral, Regan also zooms in on the political conflicts in comparative political economy from three different perspectives (electoral politics, organized interest groups and business-state elites), where he finds new avenues, tensions and research agendas are opening up. From a different perspective, Avdagic reviews the broad develop- ments in the field of political economy with respect to the supply and demand side of redistributive policy. Thereafter, Baccaro and Pontusson sketch an alternative ‘growth model perspective’, which puts demand and distribution at the center of the analysis. Finally, Van der Zwan analyses the usefulness of financialization studies for the study of (comparative) political economy.

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政治经济学的新方法

关于“政治经济学的新方法”的讨论为我们提供了政治经济学概念内主要理论和概念发展的最新概述。因此，它邀请我们扩展有关新颖方法的知识，该方法利用更复杂的方法来研究较小或较大地理区域的不稳定，较难预测，但变化快的现实。在这个讨论论坛中，Amable仔细研究了“冲突”的性质以及冲突与体制变化或稳定之间的关系。在强调一般性比较资本主义的重要性之后，里根还从三种不同的视角（选举政治，有组织的利益集团和商业国家精英）着眼于比较政治经济学中的政治冲突，他在这里找到新的途径，紧张关系和研究议程。从另一个角度来看，Avdagic回顾了政治经济学领域在再分配政策的供求方面的广泛发展。此后，Baccaro和Pontusson绘制了另一种“增长模型视角”，将需求和分配置于分析的中心。最后，范德Z分析了金融化研究对（比较）政治经济学研究的有用性。将需求和分配置于分析的中心。最后，范德Z分析了金融化研究对（比较）政治经济学研究的有用性。将需求和分配置于分析的中心。最后，范德Z分析了金融化研究对（比较）政治经济学研究的有用性。