Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe vs Liberal America

By J. Pontusson. 2005

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Explaining Social Policy Preferences: Evidence from the Great Recession (2013, background): “…that taxes (as a share of government revenue) tend to be strongly and positively correlated with both higher welfare spending and lower inequality, means that the two can largely be discussed together (see Pontusson (2005), in particular Figure 7.2, for a more detailed elaboration of this point).”
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation (2008, background): “…CD parties, there has been a tendency for the growing bifurcation of risks in the labor market to be reinforced by government policies—certainly in the sense that unemployment benefits and active labor market policies have not kept up with the growing needs of displaced workers (Pontusson, 2005).”
Cheap Labor: The New Politics of “Bread and Roses” in Industrial Democracies (2008, unknown): “13 Pontusson 2005.”
Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century (2009, background): “7 see Lindert 1996; Wilensky 2006; Pontusson 2005.”
Financialisation and Income Inequality in OECD Nations:1995-2007 (2012, unknown): “Although various scholars and observers have been promulgating the notion that high and rising levels of income inequality remained an American phenomenon, and that other OECD countries have been able to hold inequality at bay, this is not the case (Pontusson 2005, p. 32).”
Economic development, income inequality and preferences for redistribution * (2010, background): “…toward redistributive policies and government redistribution and subsequent levels of inequality (Shapiro and Young 1989; Blekesaune and Quadagno 2003; Kenworthy 2004; Kenworthy and Pontusson 2005; Iversen 2005, Finseraas 2006; Brooks and Manza 2006, 2007; Kelly 2004; Kenworthy and McCall 2008).”
The interaction of entrepreneurship and institutions (2010, unknown): “The National Science Foundation, for example, was created in part through political entrepreneurship (Polsby, 1984).”
Institutional Determinants of Unemployment in OECD Countries: Does the Deregulatory View Hold Water? (2007, background): “…on the argument that different levels of institutional rigidities matter for differences in unemployment+ Schettkat, for example, compares employment- 8+ See Pontusson 2005; and Baker et al+ 2006+ 9+ Apparently, the most relevant aspect of reform of the unemployment insurance system in Denmark…”
Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (2009, background): “Many studies have documented the resilience of key political-economic arrangements in the CMEs (and their continued distance from LMEs) despite new strains (Culpepper 2005; Goyer 2007; Hall 2007; Hall and Gingerich 2004; Pontusson 2005; Wallerstein et al. 1997).”
Varieties of capitalism in light of the euro crisis (2018, background): “Mediterranean market economies and other growth models Among the countries of the new monetary union, however, were some with different varieties of capitalism (Amable 2003; Pontusson 2005b).”
Public support for redistribution: what explains cross-national differences? (2010, background): “The greater the increase in market income inequality, the greater the increase in welfare state redistribution, an effect which is mediated by the level of voter turnout (Kenworthy and Pontusson, 2005: 459).”
Rising Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries (2005, background): “See also Blau and Kahn 2002; Iversen and Wren 1998; Nickell and Layard 1999; Pontusson 2005; and Scharpf 2000.”