Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare

Torben Iversen is Professor of Government at Harvard University. He is the author of Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining (Cambridge University Press, 1999), and co-editor of Unions, Employers and Central Bankers: Macroeconomic Coordination and Institutional Change in Social Market Economies (Cambridge University Press, 1999). He is also the author or co-author of articles in such journals as the American Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, the British Journal of Political Science, Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, International Organization, the Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Public Choice, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and World Politics, as well as numerous edited volumes.

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Torben Iversen

页数:336

出版时间:2005-7-11

价格:USD 35.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780521613071

图书标签:比较政治比较政治经济学公共政策政治学政治经济学

This book builds on institutionalist theory in both economics and political science to offer a general political economy framework for the study of welfare capitalism. Based on the key idea that social protection in a modern economy, both inside and outside the state, can be understood as protection of specific investments in human capital, the book offers a systematic explanation of popular preferences for redistributive spending, the economic role of political parties and electoral systems, and labor market stratification (including gender inequality). Contrary to the popular idea that competition in the global economy undermines international differences in the level of social protection, the book argues that these differences are made possible by a high international division of labor. Such a division is what allows firms to specialize in production that requires an abundant supply of workers with specific skills, and hence high demand for protection.

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很难用简短的语言来形容这部作品的贡献。Iversen的能力，就是把Social Risk, varieties of capitalism, Political Insitution这些巨大的岛屿给链接起来。这部作品自然已经成了最近10数年来发达资本主义工业国政治研究的经典

很难用简短的语言来形容这部作品的贡献。Iversen的能力，就是把Social Risk, varieties of capitalism, Political Insitution这些巨大的岛屿给链接起来。这部作品自然已经成了最近10数年来发达资本主义工业国政治研究的经典

很难用简短的语言来形容这部作品的贡献。Iversen的能力，就是把Social Risk, varieties of capitalism, Political Insitution这些巨大的岛屿给链接起来。这部作品自然已经成了最近10数年来发达资本主义工业国政治研究的经典

很难用简短的语言来形容这部作品的贡献。Iversen的能力，就是把Social Risk, varieties of capitalism, Political Insitution这些巨大的岛屿给链接起来。这部作品自然已经成了最近10数年来发达资本主义工业国政治研究的经典

很难用简短的语言来形容这部作品的贡献。Iversen的能力，就是把Social Risk, varieties of capitalism, Political Insitution这些巨大的岛屿给链接起来。这部作品自然已经成了最近10数年来发达资本主义工业国政治研究的经典