Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy Of Inequality, Unions, And Social Democracy (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics)
Cambridge University Press, 6/5/2008
EAN 9780521714853, ISBN10: 0521714850
Paperback, 482 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm
Language: English
Michael Wallerstein was a leader in developing a rigorous comparative political economy approach to understanding substantive issues of inequality, redistribution, and wage-determination. His early death from cancer left both a hole in the profession and a legacy that will surely provide the foundation for research on these topics. This volume collects his most important and influential contributions, organized by topic, with each topic preceded by an editorial introduction that provides overview and context.
1. General introduction Adam Przeworski and Jeffrey Frieden
Part I. Class Conflict, the State, and Economic Limits to Democracy
2. Introduction Adam Przeworski
3. The structure of class conflict in democratic capitalist societies Michael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski
4. Structural dependence of the state on capital Michael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski
5. Capital taxation with open borders Michael Wallerstein and Adam Przeworski
Part II. The Politics of Labor Organizations
6. Introduction Miriam Golden
7. Union organization in advanced industrial democracies Michael Wallerstein
8. Centralized bargaining and wage restraint Michael Wallerstein
9. Trade union organization and industrial relations in the postwar era in 12 countries Michael Wallerstein, Miriam Golden, and Peter Lange
10. Unions in decline? What has changed and why Michael Wallerstein and Bruce Western
Part III. Inequality and Redistribution
11. Introduction David Austen-Smith
12. Wage-setting institutions and pay inequality in advanced industrial societies Michael Wallerstein
13. Inequality, social insurance and redistribution Michael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene
14. Redistribution and affirmative action Michael Wallerstein and David Austen-Smith
Part IV. Labor and the Nordic Model of Social Democracy
15. Introduction Karl Ove Moene
16. How social democracy worked Michael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene
17. Earnings inequality and welfare spending
a disaggregated analysis Michael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene
18. Social democracy as a development strategy Michael Wallerstein and Karl Ove Moene.
'Michael Wallerstein was one of the leading theorists of the political economy of income distribution. This collection of his writings reminds us that simple models can be enormously powerful when wielded with flair and imagination. The editors, through their introductory essays, have also done a wonderful job of placing his work in the broader intellectual context of the many areas where he contributed.' Abhijit Banerjee, MIT