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The New Political Economy of Taxation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Earlier versions of this paper were presented at the 1999 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association, September 1-5, Atlanta, GA, and the 2000 Annual Meeting of the Midwest Political Science Association, April 27-30, Chicago, IL. The authors thank Steffen Ganghof, Philip Genschel, Mark Hallerberg, Alex Hicks, William Keech, Dennis Quinn, and the anonymous reviewers and editor ...

Political Parties and Democratic Control in Advanced Industrial Societies

Few, if any, would deny that political parties are integral to representative democracy as we know it. And yet since the 1960s it has become increasingly commonplace to encounter references in academic literature, journalistic comment, and polemical assertion alike to the `decline of party', a contention usually predicated on the view that parties are `failing' in a variety of respects. We have...

Political Parties and Economic Policy in Industrialized Democracies: An Insider-Outsider Partisanship Model

This paper presents an argument that rejects the conception of labor as a unitary political actor and the identification of social democratic governments as those that will promote the interests of labor. I divide labor into insiders, who enjoy employment protection, and outsiders, who do not, and reconceptualize electorally influential groups and their main policy interests accordingly. I firs...

Political Parties and Democracy

A central claim of democratic theory is that democracy induces governments to be responsive to the preferences of the people. Political parties organize politics in every modern democracy, and some observers claim that parties are what induce democracies to be responsive. Yet, according to others, parties give voice to extremists and reduce the responsiveness of governments to the citizenry. Th...