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Author : Evelyne Huber Huber
Release : 2001
Genre : Democracy
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Book Synopsis Distribution and Redistribution in Post-industrial Democracies by : Evelyne Huber Huber
Download or read book Distribution and Redistribution in Post-industrial Democracies written by Evelyne Huber Huber. This book was released on 2001. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Duane Swank
Release : 2015
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Book Synopsis The Political Foundations of Redistribution in Post-industrial Democracies by : Duane Swank
Download or read book The Political Foundations of Redistribution in Post-industrial Democracies written by Duane Swank. This book was released on 2015. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiscal redistribution by the state provides a powerful counterweight to the growth of market income inequality in post-industrial democracies. Yet, significant questions remain about what explains the substantial variation in redistribution across nations and time in the contemporary era. In addition to recognizing the response of election-minded governments to the growth in insecurities and demands for redistribution associated with post-industrialization, I argue that where social democratic parties rule, and where employers and labor remain highly organized, inequality is blunted through redistribution of income by cash transfers and direct taxes and policies targeted at low income strata. This should be the case because the organizational scope, centralization, and policymaking integration of labor and capital facilitates the creation of post-industrial political coalitions necessary for redistributive policy making and implementation by social democratic governments, and organizationally suppresses insider politics by sectorally fragmented actors and excessive rent seeking by narrow interest groups. Labor organization, in particular, directly promotes demands for redistribution through several channels. I use 1979 to 2011 data from 18 democracies and estimate models of redistribution and policies for "outsiders." The main argument is supported by the evidence: social democratic government has especially significant egalitarian impacts on unemployment benefits and minimum income supports for low income workers as well as active labor market policies at high levels of labor and employer organization. Labor organization, itself, has significant and substantively large effects on fiscal redistribution. I use these results and evidence on recent trends in key determinants of redistribution to reflect on whether an era of "permanent inequality" is inevitable or simply a political possibility.
Author : Carles Boix
Release : 2003-07-21
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Democracy and Redistribution by : Carles Boix
Download or read book Democracy and Redistribution written by Carles Boix. This book was released on 2003-07-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Employing analytical tools borrowed from game theory, Carles Boix offers a complete theory of political transitions, in which political regimes ultimately hinge on the nature of economic assets, their distribution among individuals, and the balance of power among different social groups. Backed up by detailed historical work and extensive statistical analysis that goes back to the mid-nineteenth century, this book explains, among many other things, why democracy emerged in classical Athens. It also discusses the early triumph of democracy in both nineteenth-century agrarian Norway, Switzerland and northeastern America and the failure in countries with a powerful landowning class.
Author : Ian Shapiro
Release : 2008-07
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Divide and Deal by : Ian Shapiro
Download or read book Divide and Deal written by Ian Shapiro. This book was released on 2008-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking a view of inequality as encompassing the distribution of wealth, risk, status, and well-being, this volume explores how institutions, individuals, and coalitions contribute to the often surprising twists and turns of distributive politics. It identifies various psychological and institutional factors that influence distributive outcomes.
Author : Mr.Jonathan David Ostry
Release : 2014-02-17
Genre : Business & Economics
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Book Synopsis Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth by : Mr.Jonathan David Ostry
Download or read book Redistribution, Inequality, and Growth written by Mr.Jonathan David Ostry. This book was released on 2014-02-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Fund has recognized in recent years that one cannot separate issues of economic growth and stability on one hand and equality on the other. Indeed, there is a strong case for considering inequality and an inability to sustain economic growth as two sides of the same coin. Central to the Fund’s mandate is providing advice that will enable members’ economies to grow on a sustained basis. But the Fund has rightly been cautious about recommending the use of redistributive policies given that such policies may themselves undercut economic efficiency and the prospects for sustained growth (the so-called “leaky bucket” hypothesis written about by the famous Yale economist Arthur Okun in the 1970s). This SDN follows up the previous SDN on inequality and growth by focusing on the role of redistribution. It finds that, from the perspective of the best available macroeconomic data, there is not a lot of evidence that redistribution has in fact undercut economic growth (except in extreme cases). One should be careful not to assume therefore—as Okun and others have—that there is a big tradeoff between redistribution and growth. The best available macroeconomic data do not support such a conclusion.
