Coevolution of Capitalism and Political Representation: The Choice of Electoral Systems

Cusack, Thomas R.; Iversen, Torben; Soskice, David

doi:10.1017/s0003055410000134

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“…For instance, a number of works have put the evolution of varieties of capitalism in historical perspective and identified drivers leading to the present diversity among advanced industrialized economies (Streeck and Yamamura, 2001;Thelen, 2004;Hancké et al, 2007;Cusack et al, 2010). In terms of evolution over time, research has explored the question of convergence (Djelic, 1998;Whitley, 1999;Deakin et al, 2016), but also an apparent trend towards liberalization (Thelen, 2014;Van der Zwan, 2014) and institutional adaptability more generally (Streeck and Thelen, 2005;Vogel, 2006;Witt, 2006;Hall and Thelen, 2009;Jackson and Deeg, 2012).…”

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Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research

Witt

Castro

Amaeshi

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Socio-Economic Review

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Efforts to build a universal theory of the world's business systems require empirical grounding in an understanding of the variety that need explaining. To support such theorizing, we analyzed the institutional structures of 61 major economies, accounting for 93.5% of 2013 world GDP at purchasing power parity. We found nine main types of business systems: Highly Coordinated, Coordinated Market, Liberal Market, European Peripheral, Advanced Emerging, Advanced City, Arab Oil-Based, Emerging, and Socialist Economies. Our findings illustrate the need to go beyond the Varieties of Capitalism and Business Systems frameworks; provide empirical support for the CME versus LME dichotomy for part of the OECD; identify some of the business systems proposed recently as sub-types of larger clusters; indicate that institutional diversity may increase with development level; and cast doubt on the notions of state-led and family-led capitalism as types of business systems. Our discussion further suggests numerous avenues for theory development and empirical research.

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confidence: 99%

Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research

Witt

Castro

Amaeshi

et al. 2017

Socio-Economic Review

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“…We use predictors originating from all three political explanations: district specific vulnerabilities and socialist threat (Rokkan I), seat-vote disproportionalities (Rokkan II), and levels of skills acquired through the vocational training system Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice (2010). This is not only the first test that includes all the variables but also the first time that these hypotheses are tested at the district level, the regional level, and the partisan level.…”

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The Adoption of Proportional Representation

Leemann¹,

Mares²

2014

The Journal of Politics

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The debate between economic and political explanations of the adoption of proportional representation (PR) has yielded mixed results. We reexamine this debate and argue that one has to take the different levels on which the causal mechanisms are located into account. This leads to a novel reformulation of Rokkan's hypotheses: we claim that PR is introduced when legislators face strong district-level competition and when their parties expect to gain seats from a change of the electoral law. In the empirical part, we model legislators' support for the PR adoption and evaluate the relative importance of district-level competition and vulnerability resulting from electoral inroads made by Social Democratic candidates; partisan calculations arising from disproportionalities in the allocation of votes to seats; and economic conditions at the district-level, specifically variation in skill profiles. Support for the adoption of PR is explained by a combination of district vulnerabilities and seat-vote disproportionality.

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“…Additional factors discussed in the literature include the size of a country (Boix ), the local organization of economic interests (Cusack, Iversen, and Soskice ) or the level of income inequality (Ticchi and Vindigni ). In our analysis, canton size will be absorbed by canton fixed effects.…”

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How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence From Cantonal Parliaments, 1890-2000

Funk

Gathmann

2013

Journal of the European Economic Association

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Using a new data set on Swiss cantons since 1890, we analyze how the adoption of proportional representation affects fiscal policy. In line with economic theory, we show that proportional systems shift spending toward broad goods (like education and welfare benefits) but decrease spending on geographically targetable goods (like roads). We find little evidence that proportional representation increases the overall size of government. An analysis of the underlying theoretical mechanisms reveals that proportional representation increases electoral turnout, left‐wing representation, and political fragmentation. These changes in political representation explain a substantial share of the rise in education spending, but a small share of the rise in welfare spending or the decline in road expenditures.

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Coevolution of Capitalism and Political Representation: The Choice of Electoral Systems

Cited by 56 publications

References 28 publications

Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research

Mapping the business systems of 61 major economies: a taxonomy and implications for varieties of capitalism and business systems research

The Adoption of Proportional Representation

How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence From Cantonal Parliaments, 1890-2000

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