Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems

By Thomas R. Cusack, Torben Iversen, D. Soskice. American Political Science Review, 2007

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations

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Gaming Democracy: Elite Dominance during Transition and the Prospects for Redistribution (2014, background): “For a dissenting view, see Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice 2007.”
Inequality in developed countries and Latin America: coordinated, liberal and hierarchical systems (2009, background): “In fact, the countries which switched to PR were countries which had had a long tradition of corporatist-style group representation, especially at local level (Crouch, 1994; Cusack et al., 2007), typically but not always excluding unions.”
Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century (2009, background): “Likewise, wage dispersion 92 Cusack et al 2007.”
Institutions, Climate Change, and the Foundations of Long-Term Policymaking (2019, background): “Indeed, they co-evolved for important historical reasons and constitute the institutional basis of democratic and capitalist diversity (Hall and Soskice 2001; Cusack et al. 2007; Lijphart 2012; Iversen and Soskice 2009).”
Historical institutionalism and the politics of sustainable energy transitions: A research agenda (2017, background): “The implications of the CME/LME distinction for sustainable energy transitions are also complicated by the fact that CMEs tend to have proportional representation electoral systems (Cusack et al 2007), which as discussed in section 3.1 above may produce more conducive conditions.”
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation (2008, background): “This, then, is where the consensus image of PR systems, advocated by Crepaz (1998), Katzenstein (1985), Lijphart (1984), and others, fits in, and from a WPR perspective, it helps explain why employers and the right have supported PR, even though it clearly has given an edge to the left and redistrib”
Asset Specificity, Institutional Complementarities and the Variety of Skill Regimes in Coordinated Market Economies (2009, background): “Finally, Cusack et al. talk about the importance of ‘co-specific assets’ based on cooperative management between business and labour and joint investments in skill formation (Cusack et al., 2007, p. 377).”