Political Parties, Growth and Equality - Conservative Social Democratic Economic Strategies in World Economy

Klappentext This book shows that partisanship and electoral politics play a role in the selection of policies to generate growth and competitiveness. Zusammenfassung This book describes the contrasting economic strategies pursued by conservative and social democratic governments. Examining all advanced countries since the 1960s! Professor Boix shows that partisanship and electoral politics play a fundamental role in the selection of policies to generate long-term growth and economic competitiveness. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and the structural conditions of the economy; 3. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (I). Public investment and the formation of human capital; 4. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (II). The public business sector and tax strategies; 5. The social democratic project: macroeconomic stability and state intervention in Spain; 6. The political and electoral dimensions of the PSOE's economic strategy; 7. Turning around the postwar consensus: defining a new economic framework in Britain; 8. The political and electoral dimensions of the conservative economic strategy; 9. Political parties, electoral coalitions, and domestic institutions; 10. Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Carles Boix, Carles (Ohio State University) Boix
• Assisted by: Robert H. Bates (Editor), Peter Lange (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.06.1998
• EAN: 9780521584463
• ISBN: 978-0-521-58446-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati
• Subject: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education