Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States: GLOBALIZATION AND POLICY CHANGE IN CORPORATIST CONSERVATIVE WELFARE STATES

By Duane H. Swank. 2002

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Government Spending and Public Support for Trade in the OECD: An Empirical Test of the Embedded Liberalism Thesis (2005, background): “Our sample, which spans from 1960 to 2000, includes seventeen OECD countries: Australia, Austria, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States+ The key independent variable is the na”
Globalization as ‘Galton's Problem’: The Missing Link in the Analysis of Diffusion Patterns in Welfare State Development (2006, background): “…sixteen countries according to their share of the total trade ~imports and exports combined!+68 63+ Armingeon, Beyeler, and Binnema 2001, 10+ 64+ See Swank 2002, 89; see also Armingeon, Beyeler, and Binnema 2001, 12+ 65+ I also experimented with data for foreign direct investment and capital…”
New Evidence on the Effect of Fiscal Decentralization on the Size and Composition of Government Spending (2006, background): “…as “benefits for sickness, old-age, family allowances, etc., social assistance grants and welfare benefits paid by general government” and is commonly used in the welfare state literature (see for example Garrett and Mitchell (2001), Huber and Stephens (2001), Rodrik (1997, 1998) and Swank (2002)).”
Has Globalisation Increased Inequality (2008, neutral): “In addition, it has been widely argued that heterogeneity of domestic political, as well as labour market, institutions support heterogeneity of responses to globalisation (Calmfors and Driffill, 1988; Garrett, 1998; Swank, 2002).”
Economic Policy, Institutions, and Capital Flows: Portfolio and Direct Investment Flows in Developing Countries (2006, background): “…2001) highlights apparently robust and persistent differences in labor market bargaining institutions (Iversen 1999; Western 1997), unemployment and job training regimes (EstevezAbe, Iversen, and Soskice 2001; Mares 2003), and the size of the welfare state (Swank 2002) across OECD countries.”
Why is there no race to the bottom in capital taxation (2009, methodology): “…restrictions for all 23 countries.21 To account for partisan influences on tax policies we use data on left and Christian democratic cabinet portfolios (Swank 2002).22 Finally, the natural logarithm of total population (World Bank 2006) accounts for the effect of country size on tax policies.”
Explaining the welfare state: power resources vs. the Quality of Government (2011, background): “However, what we see is that differences, both in terms of institutional configurations and coverage, are huge and stable (Swank, 2002; Pontusson, 2005; Alber, 2006).”
Tax Policy in an Era of Internationalization: Explaining the Spread of Neoliberalism (2006, background): “In addition to the perceived competitive benefits accorded those nations who follow the U+S+ lead, national policymakers face the risks of economic and political costs by adopting the market-conforming tax regime+ The post–World War II tax structure of significant marginal statutory rates on capital”
The determinants of income inequality in OECD countries (2018, background): “In other words, globalisation pressures governments to expand welfare expenditures in order to compensate the domestic ‘losers’ in the globalisation process (Brady et al., 2005; Rodrik, 1998; Swank, 2002).”
Dependency Revisited: International Markets, Business Cycles, and Social Spending in the Developing World (2006, background): “…Whether the cause is deindustrialization ~Iversen and Cusack 2000! or the compensation effect ~Cameron 1978; and Garrett 1998! is irrelevant here+ 2+ See Swank 2002; and Garrett and Mitchell 2001+ 3+ See Kitschelt, Lange, Marks, and Stephens 1999; Garrett 1998; Boix 1998; and Mosley 2003+ 4+ See…”
Strategic Interaction among EU Governments in Active Labor Market Policy-making (2006, background): “Social democratic, Christian democratic, and left-libertarian parties have all been identified as key supporters of active social policies, albeit of different precise natures (see, e.g., Kitschelt, 1994; Garrett, 1998; and Swank, 2002).”