| Political Parties, Growth and Equality: Conservative and Social Democratic Economic Strategies in the World Economy Contributor(s): Boix, Carles (Author) |
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ISBN: 0521585953 ISBN-13: 9780521585958 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $32.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1998 Annotation: This book shows that partisanship and electoral politics play a role in the selection of policies to generate growth and competitiveness. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Process - Political Parties - Political Science | History & Theory - General - Political Science | Public Policy - Economic Policy |
| Dewey: 324.2 |
| LCCN: 97027896 |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.97" W x 8.95" (0.92 lbs) 296 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 20th Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Given the increased openness of countries to international trade and financial flows, the general public and the scholarly literature have grown sceptical about the capacity of policy-makers to affect economic performance. Challenging this view, this book shows the increasingly interdependent world economy and recent technological shocks have actually exacerbated the dilemmas faced by governments in choosing among various policy objectives, such as generating jobs and reducing income inequality, thereby granting political parties and electoral politics a fundamental and growing role in the economy. To make growth and equality compatible, social democrats employ the public sector to raise the productivity of capital and labour. By contrast, conservatives rely on the private provision of investment. Based on analysis of the economic policies of all OECD countries since the 1960s and in-depth examination of Britain and Spain in the 1980s, this book offers a view of how contemporary democracies work and reinvigorates the claim that they matter. |