Festschrift für Fritz W. Scharpf - MPIfG

74 I · Reformen und Innovationen
obviously socio-political parts: industrial relations, the welfare state, and local
development. It seemed to take the collapse of Soviet communism, removing
from the scene the only complete alternative to capitalism, to make
observers aware of its systematic internal variety. Throughout the 1990s the
literature on the subject grew rapidly, with sociologists eventually joining
the task.