Reforming Capitalist Democracies: Which Way?

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 ...

The Political Foundations of Redistribution and Equality in Postindustrial Capitalist Democracies

Does the organization of business matter for redistribution and labor market equality in post-industrial democratic capitalism? Conventional welfare state analysis has given this significant question scant attention. We argue, however, that high levels of employer organization, as well as the persistence of centralized bargaining and national policy formation between these well organized employ...

Which Way Madness Lies

Anna did not simply decide one day that people were made of paper. She came to the conclusion slowly and reluctantly, several months after she ! rst noticed that the consistency of everything around her had subtly changed. Books and chairs and buildings were no longer solid but composed of tiny, buzzing particles. She thought if she blew on a lamppost it should disperse into air. On her way to ...

Which Way to Cooperate∗

We introduce a two-player, binary-choice game in which both players have a privately known incentive to enter, yet the combined surplus is highest if only one enters. Repetition of this game admits two distinct ways to cooperate: turn taking and cutoffs, which rely on the player’s private value to entry. A series of experiments highlights the role of private information in determining which mod...

Which Way from Here