Title:
Selected works of Michael Wallerstein : the political economy of inequality, unions, and social democracy
Series:
Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Publication Information:
Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2008
Physical Description:
ix, 466 p. ; 24 cm.
ISBN:
9780521886888
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Summary
Summary
Michael Wallerstein was a leader in developing a rigorous comparative political economy approach to understanding substantive issues of inequality, redistribution, and wage-determination. His early death from cancer left both a hole in the profession and a legacy that will surely provide the foundation for research on these topics. This volume collects his most important and influential contributions, organized by topic, with each topic preceded by an editorial introduction that provides overview and context.
Table of Contents
| 1 General introductionAdam Przeworski and Jeffrey Frieden |
| Part I Class Conflict, the State, and Economic Limits to Democracy |
| 2 IntroductionAdam Przeworski |
| 3 The structure of class conflict in democratic capitalist societiesMichael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski |
| 4 Structural dependence of the state on capitalMichael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski |
| 5 Capital taxation with open bordersMichael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski |
| Part II The Politics of Labor Organizations |
| 6 IntroductionMiriam Golden |
| 7 Union organization in advanced industrial democraciesMichael Wallerstein |
| 8 Centralized bargaining and wage restraintMichael Wallerstein |
| 9 Trade union organization and industrial relations in the postwar era in 12 countriesMichael Wallerstein and Miriam Golden and Peter Lange |
| 10 Unions in decline? What has changed and whyMichael Wallerstein and Bruce Western |
| Part III Inequality and Redistribution |
| 11 IntroductionDavid Austen-Smith |
| 12 Wage-setting institutions and pay inequality in advanced industrial societiesMichael Wallerstein |
| 13 Inequality, social insurance and redistributionMichael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene |
| 14 Redistribution and affirmative actionMichael Wallerstein and David Austen-Smith |
| Part IV Labor and the Nordic Model of Social Democracy |
| 15 IntroductionKarl Ove Moene |
| 16 How social democracy workedMichael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene |
| 17 Earnings inequality and welfare spending: a disaggregated analysisMichael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene |
| 18 Social democracy as a development strategyMichael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene |
