Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein: The Political Economy of Inequality, Unions, and Social Democracy

by Edited by David Austen-Smith , Jeffry A. Frieden , Miriam A. Golden , Karl Ove Moene , Adam Przeworski

• ISBN13: 9780521714853
• ISBN10: 0521714850
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-03-17
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

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.

Table of Contents

General introduction

Class Conflict, the State, and Economic Limits to Democracy

Introduction

The structure of class conflict in democratic capitalist societies

Structural dependence of the state on capital

Capital taxation with open borders

The Politics of Labor Organizations

Introduction

Union organization in advanced industrial democracies

Centralized bargaining and wage restraint

Trade union organization and industrial relations in the postwar era in 12 countries

Unions in decline? What has changed and why

Inequality and Redistribution

Introduction

Wage-setting institutions and pay inequality in advanced industrial societies

Inequality, social insurance and redistribution

Redistribution and affirmative action

Labor and the Nordic Model of Social Democracy

Introduction

How social democracy worked

Earnings inequality and welfare spending: a disaggregated analysis

Social democracy as a development strategy

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