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The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract After the Second World War, family allowances became a cornerstone of social spending in western Europe. Whilst religion is often highlighted as a driver of this policy, the role of political Catholicism remains contested, particularly in southern Europe.
Guillem Verd‐Llabrés
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Unions, Cartels, and the Political Economy of American Cities: the Chicago Flat Janitors\u27 Union in the Progressive Era and 1920s [PDF]
, 2000 In 1997, Ira Katznelson contributed to the ongoing discussion among social scientists and historians about how to analyze class formation and the development of the American state.
Jentz, John
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Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition
Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
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O corporativismo na (re)organização do Estado-Nação: Oliveira Vianna e Oliveira Salazar
Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2018 The object of our study concerns corporatist proposals of (re)organization in the Nation-State regarding the thought of two contemporary intellectuals: The Brazilian Francisco José de Oliveira Vianna (1883-1951) and the Portuguese António de Oliveira ...
George Freitas Rosa de Araujo
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Powerful representation of the poor? German welfare associations' narrative advocacy during COVID‐19
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.Abstract The COVID‐19 pandemic sparked unprecedented experimentation in the German social assistance system, leading to changes previously considered impracticable by policymakers. This included a sanctions moratorium, easier access to benefits, and temporary cash transfers, all of which were advocated by welfare associations—key organized interests ...
Christopher Smith Ochoa
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Coalition Opportunity Structures and Advocacy Coordination in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies
Policy Studies Journal, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Research on advocacy coalitions suggests that belief homophily—the tendency of actors to coordinate based on shared policy beliefs—drives coalition formation. However, coalition opportunity structures, which are shaped by institutional contexts, may influence the extent to which belief homophily matters.
Keiichi Satoh +7 more
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PR, Lobbyism and Democracy: Mapping the revolving door in Denmark from 1981 to 2015
Nordicom Review, 2017 The growth of PR in Scandinavia is linked both to the mediatisation of politics and to the decline of corporatism. Studies in Sweden and Norway suggest that one consequence of these changes is the increasing number of politicians who find new careers as ...
Blach-Ørsten Mark +2 more
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Globalization, Party Positions, and the Median Voter [PDF]
, 2011 The authors argue that the effects of economic globalization on social democratic parties in Western Europe are conditional on the position of the median voter.
Dorussen, H, Ezrow, L, Ward, H
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Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Skills formation is a pressing issue for middle‐income countries given the pace of technological change. In Latin America, scholars point to the hierarchical type of capitalism and its segmentalist skills formation system as the main roadblocks to exiting the middle‐income trap.
Aldo Madariaga, Mariana Rangel‐Padilla
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Problems and Solutions in the Knowledge Economy: Ideational Power in Slow‐Burning Crises
Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Societies are grappling with uncertainty about how to adapt to the emerging knowledge economy. Drawing on the public policy literature, we propose a new approach to studying the politics of ideas during long‐term structural changes. We depart from existing scholarship that focuses on the politics of ideas during episodic crises, and instead ...
Martin B. Carstensen +2 more
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