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	Regulation Theory Analysis	World-Systems Analysis
Fagområde	Political Economy	Political Economy
Familie	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Oprindelsesår	1979	1974
Ophavsperson	Michel Aglietta & Robert Boyer (French Regulation School)	Immanuel Wallerstein
Type	Institutional-macroeconomic framework	Historical-structural macrosociological framework
Oprindelig kilde	Aglietta, M. (1979). A Theory of Capitalist Regulation: The US Experience. New Left Books / Verso. ISBN: 9781859842225	Wallerstein, I. (1974). The Modern World-System I: Capitalist Agriculture and the Origins of the European World-Economy in the Sixteenth Century. Academic Press. ISBN: 9780127859200
Aliasser	Regulation School Analysis, Theory of Regulation, Accumulation Regime Analysis, Parisian Regulation Approach	World-System Theory, World-Systems Theory, Wallersteinian Analysis, Capitalist World-Economy Analysis
Relaterede	4	4
Resumé	Regulation theory analysis is an institutional-macroeconomic framework developed by the French Regulation School — above all by Michel Aglietta in A Theory of Capitalist Regulation (1979) and Robert Boyer in The Regulation School (1990) — to explain how capitalism, despite its inherent crisis tendencies, manages to reproduce itself and sustain growth for extended periods. Its central distinction is between a regime of accumulation (a stable macroeconomic pattern linking production, investment, and consumption) and a mode of regulation (the ensemble of institutional forms, norms, and habits that make that pattern cohere). When a regime of accumulation and a compatible mode of regulation lock together — as in postwar Fordism, where mass production was matched by mass consumption through a productivity-indexed wage — capitalism enjoys a long phase of stability. When the institutional forms can no longer contain the contradictions of the accumulation pattern, the framework diagnoses a structural crisis and a search for a new model, as in the crisis of Fordism and the transition toward post-Fordism.	World-systems analysis is a historical-structural framework, founded by Immanuel Wallerstein in The Modern World-System (1974) and codified in his 2004 introduction, that takes as its unit of analysis not the nation-state but a single, integrated capitalist world-economy that has expanded since the long sixteenth century to encompass the globe. Within this world-economy a single axial division of labor binds together a hierarchy of zones — core, semiperiphery, and periphery — through which surplus flows unequally from peripheral to core regions. States, classes, and firms are understood by their position in this structure rather than as self-contained societies, and the system is read over the longue duree, attentive to long cycles of accumulation and to the rise and decline of successive hegemonic powers.