E Huber
Biographic Data
| ID | 13400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | E Huber |
| GIVEN NAMES | E |
| FAMILY NAME | Huber |
| SIGNATURE | HUBER E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1245-0642 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 44 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1442 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 44 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
Response to Noam Lupu and Jonas Pontusson’s Review of Challenging Inequality: Variation across Postindustrial Societies
Goodbye to Meltzer-Richard: Testing major theories of redistribution
We re-analyse four major explanations of redistribution including the Meltzer-Richard model, power resources theory, Iversen-Soskice’s political institutions explanation, and Lupu and Ponstusson’s skewness theory. For each of these, we reconsider the causal chain and test their assumptions using a comprehensive, original dataset on working-age income-inequality consisting of 589 country-years for affluent democracies in the period 1963–2019. We f…
Poverty and Social Rights Among the Working Age Population in Post-Industrial Democracies
This article explores the determinants of relative market income poverty and poverty reduction among the working age population in 22 advanced industrial democracies. The article revisits Moller et al. (2003) but goes beyond the earlier study in four major ways. First, we are able to measure welfare state effort with social rights rather than expenditure. This allows us to separate the effect of policy from need, which jointly shape expenditure. …
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy: New politics and policies
This themed issue entitled Social Investment in the Knowledge-Based Economy aims to investigate desirable policy packages of social investment for the knowledge-based economy, the interactions between policy and economic inequality, and political and institutional configurations that shape policies. This introduction to our themed issue situates the contribution of the volume in the literature, summarizes the main findings and their implications,…
Financialization, labor market institutions and inequality
The last three decades have witnessed rising inequality and deepening financialization in post-industrial democracies. A rapidly growing literature has linked these two phenomena. We go beyond existing scholarship by specifying which aspects of financialization can be expected to increase inequality and where in the income distribution this effect will occur. We also show that this effect is contingent on institutional context. We posit that the …
Private education and inequality in the knowledge economy
This article explores the consequences of public and private spending on education at all levels, looking at skills and income inequality. We use data for 22 affluent democracies from 1960 or 1995 (depending on data availability) to 2017. High levels of public education spending consistently lower income inequality, both measured as wage dispersion and as the education premium. In contrast, higher levels of private education spending are associat…
Power, policy, and top income shares
The rise of the super-rich has attracted much political and academic attention in recent years. However, there have been few attempts to explain the cross-national along with the temporal variation in the rise of top incomes. Drawing on the World Wealth and Income Database, we study the income share of the top 1% in current postindustrial democracies from 1960 to 2012. We find that extreme income concentration at the top is a predominantly politi…
Changing Systems of Social Protection in the Context of the Changing Political Economies since the 1980s
This article provides an overview of the profound changes in the more advanced welfare states in Europe and Latin America over the past 35 years. Deindustrialization, informalization, and the rise of unstable employment, combined with aging populations rendered traditional employment-based models of social protection less effective and at the same time increased demands on the welfare state. The two main responses to these challenges were efforts…
The Political Foundations of State Effectiveness
Starting from the assumption that the aim of development is to increase human flourishing, this paper develops an analytical perspective on how effective states are built. Modern theories of development see the state as the key agent for delivering the most critical forms of productive investment – investment in capability expanding collective goods. Accomplishing this requires bureaucratic capacity, as earlier analyses of state effectiveness hav…
Soziale Sicherungssysteme in Lateinamerika und Ostasien: Hin zu einer universellen Grundsicherung?
Dieser Beitrag analysiert den Ausbau der Sozialpolitik, welcher aktuell in den am weitesten entwickelten Ländern Lateinamerikas und Ostasiens zu beobachten ist. In den letzten drei Jahrzehnten begünstigten verschiedene wirtschaftliche Entwicklungen den Ausbau sozialpolitischer Instrumente und Leistungen. Das Politikerbe aus vorherigen Zeiten beeinflusst die aktuelle sozialpolitische Entwicklung und wird im Folgenden untersucht. Demokratische Phas…
Multilevel Governance and the State
Limited Statehood
The Competition State
Rentier States and State Transformations
Transformations of the Democratic State
Human Development, State Transformation, and the Politics of the Developmental State
Debates on the nature of the developmental state must supersede the concept’s origins in the analysis of East Asian Strategies of Industrialization in the 1960s and 1970s, refocusing attention from capital accumulation to the central role of human development in national developmental success. This refocusing entails rethinking the state-society relations in which contemporary developmental states are embedded. Close ties with industrial elites a…
Emerging Welfare States in Latin America and East Asia
A discussion of John S. Ahlquist and Margaret Levi's In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism
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Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, Economic and Political Determinants 1
This article analyses the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent variables are Luxembourg Income Study data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25–59 years and the per cent reduction in the Gini index by taxes and transfers. We test the generalizability of the Goldin–Katz hypothesis that inequality has increased in the USA because the country f…
"Comment on "Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality
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Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
Welfare States and the Economy
The literature on welfare states or, more modestly, systems of social protection, has expanded rapidly over the past few decades. Since the publication of the first edition of this Handbook, major progress has been made in three research areas: the relationship between welfare states and production regimes, gendered determinants and outcomes of welfare state regimes, and the distributive outcomes of welfare states. Esping-Andersen ended his chapt…
The Politics of Women's Economic Independence
Journal Article The Politics of Women's Economic Independence Get access Evelyne Huber, Evelyne Huber Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John D. Stephens, John D. Stephens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Bradley, David Bradley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Moller, Stephanie Moller Search f…
Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America
Poverty has long been recognized as one of the most serious and lasting problems facing Latin America. Recent data from the United Nations' Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) show that 41 .7 percent of Latin Americans lived in poverty in 2004, while 17.4 percent lived in extreme poverty.1 Despite this generally high level of poverty, there is significant variation among Latin American states. Indeed, in 2002 the share …
Politics and Inequality in Latin America
Our symposium offers a variety of perspectives, such as on self-perpetuation of inequality in the international system, or on the consequences of inequality for economic growth or for social and political conflicts. This contribution discusses the determinants of domestic policy choices that affect inequality and the consequences of these policy choices. The empirical focus is on Latin American countries, which collectively are characterized by t…
Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial Democracies
This article analyzes the processes of distribution and redistribution in postindustrial democracies. The authors combine a pooled time-series data base on welfare state effort and its determinants assembled by Huber, Ragin, and Stephens (1997) with data on income distribution assembled in the Luxembourg Income Survey (IJS) archive. In the case of the LIS data, the authors recalculate the microdata in order to remove the distorting influence of p…
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
The literature on the determinants of welfare state effort displays many inconsistencies and contradictins. This article takes imoprtant stepts toward resolving these issues with the use of pooled cross-sectional and time-series analyses. The findings are that various independent variables affect different measures of welfare state effort in different and theoretically meaningful ways. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of Christia…
Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State
The causes of the expansion and cross-national variation in the provision of welfare state goods and services are examined. Social democratic governance is by far the most important determinant of the public delivery of services and is one of the most important determinants of the public funding of the provision of welfare state goods and services. Christian democratic governance is an important determinant of public funding of services, but is n…
Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
Using relative poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study, in conjunction with pooled time-series data for 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997, the authors analyze separately the rate of pretax/transfer poverty and the reduction in poverty achieved by systems of taxes and transfers. Socioeconomic factors, including de-industrialization and unemployment, largely explain pre-tax/transfer poverty…
Politics and Social Spending in Latin America
We examine the determinants of social expenditure in an unbalanced pooled time-series analysis for 18 Latin American countries for the period 1970 to 2000. This is the first such analysis of spending in Latin American countries with a full complement of regime, partisanship, state structure, economic, and demographic variables, making our analysis comparable to analyses of welfare states in advanced industrial countries. Democracy matters in the …
Politics and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
This article presents the first pooled time series analysis of the impact that politics and policy have on inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors build on models consisting of sociological and economic variables, adding the strength of the democratic tradition, long-term legislative partisan political power distribution, and social spending to explain variation in inequality. They analyze an unbalanced pooled time series data …
The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions
care about formal democracy because it tends to be more than merely formal. It tends to be real to some extent. Giving the many a real voice in the formal collective decision-making of a country is the most promising basis for further progress in the distribution of power and other forms of substantive equality.'1 We made this assertion when we introduced the results of a broad-based comparative historical investigation of the roots of democracy …
Internationalization and the Social Democratic Model: Crisis and Future Prospects
This article examines the crisis of the social democratic model in the four countries (Austria, Norway, Finland, and Sweden) in which social democracy was most successful in maintaining and even extending its two central achievements—full employment and the institutional welfare state—through the end of the 1980s. Four major conclusions emerge from the analysis. First, supply side measures, more so than demand management, were central to the empl…
Income inequality and redistribution in post-industrial democracies: Demographic, Economic and Political Determinants 1
This article analyses the determinants of market income distribution and governmental redistribution. The dependent variables are Luxembourg Income Study data on market income inequality (measured by the Gini index) for households with a head aged 25–59 years and the per cent reduction in the Gini index by taxes and transfers. We test the generalizability of the Goldin–Katz hypothesis that inequality has increased in the USA because the country f…
The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy
Any account of the social and economic conditions of democracy must come to terms with the central finding of the cross-national statistical research: a sturdy (though not perfect) association between economic development and democracy. To tackle these questions of causation, we adopted a strategy of analytic induction based on comparative historical research. Our program of comparative historical research confirmed the conclusion of the cross-na…
Power, policy, and top income shares
The rise of the super-rich has attracted much political and academic attention in recent years. However, there have been few attempts to explain the cross-national along with the temporal variation in the rise of top incomes. Drawing on the World Wealth and Income Database, we study the income share of the top 1% in current postindustrial democracies from 1960 to 2012. We find that extreme income concentration at the top is a predominantly politi…
Political Parties and Public Pensions: A Quantitative Analysis
This article analyses pooled time series and cross-sections data for pension expenditure in advanced industnal democracies from 1958 to 1986, and cross-sectional data for pension quality and the distributive effect of pensions for 1980. Contrary to previous studies, it demonstrates significant effects of the party political composition of governments ; both Christian democratic and social democratic incumbency are positively associated with pensi…
The Politics of Women's Economic Independence
Journal Article The Politics of Women's Economic Independence Get access Evelyne Huber, Evelyne Huber Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John D. Stephens, John D. Stephens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Bradley, David Bradley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Moller, Stephanie Moller Search f…
Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America
Poverty has long been recognized as one of the most serious and lasting problems facing Latin America. Recent data from the United Nations' Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) show that 41 .7 percent of Latin Americans lived in poverty in 2004, while 17.4 percent lived in extreme poverty.1 Despite this generally high level of poverty, there is significant variation among Latin American states. Indeed, in 2002 the share …
Financialization, labor market institutions and inequality
The last three decades have witnessed rising inequality and deepening financialization in post-industrial democracies. A rapidly growing literature has linked these two phenomena. We go beyond existing scholarship by specifying which aspects of financialization can be expected to increase inequality and where in the income distribution this effect will occur. We also show that this effect is contingent on institutional context. We posit that the …
Private education and inequality in the knowledge economy
This article explores the consequences of public and private spending on education at all levels, looking at skills and income inequality. We use data for 22 affluent democracies from 1960 or 1995 (depending on data availability) to 2017. High levels of public education spending consistently lower income inequality, both measured as wage dispersion and as the education premium. In contrast, higher levels of private education spending are associat…
Globalisation, Competitiveness, and the Social Democratic Model
For a long time, the discussion about the impact of economic globalisation on the full employment/generous welfare state policies pursued by social democratic governments was characterised by doom and gloom. Glib neo-liberal arguments about the impossibility of maintaining social democratic policies, that were presumably hindering competitiveness through excessive wages and taxes in the new international environment were difficult to counter, bec…
Politics and Inequality in Latin America
Our symposium offers a variety of perspectives, such as on self-perpetuation of inequality in the international system, or on the consequences of inequality for economic growth or for social and political conflicts. This contribution discusses the determinants of domestic policy choices that affect inequality and the consequences of these policy choices. The empirical focus is on Latin American countries, which collectively are characterized by t…
Changing development models in small economies: The case of Jamaica from the 1950s to the 1990s
Social investment in the knowledge-based economy: New politics and policies
This themed issue entitled Social Investment in the Knowledge-Based Economy aims to investigate desirable policy packages of social investment for the knowledge-based economy, the interactions between policy and economic inequality, and political and institutional configurations that shape policies. This introduction to our themed issue situates the contribution of the volume in the literature, summarizes the main findings and their implications,…
Goodbye to Meltzer-Richard: Testing major theories of redistribution
We re-analyse four major explanations of redistribution including the Meltzer-Richard model, power resources theory, Iversen-Soskice’s political institutions explanation, and Lupu and Ponstusson’s skewness theory. For each of these, we reconsider the causal chain and test their assumptions using a comprehensive, original dataset on working-age income-inequality consisting of 589 country-years for affluent democracies in the period 1963–2019. We f…
"Comment on "Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Revolution or Contribution? Rational Choice Approaches in the Study of Latin American Politics
This article assesses the contributions of studies in the rational choice (RC) tradition to scholarly understanding of Latin American politics. It groups some representative works according to their use of RC assumptions, and also reviews some of the major works in the institutionalist tradition. It argues that works in the RC tradition have neither forced a major rethinking of established theories nor filled major lacunae, although they have ill…
Changing development models in small economies: The case of Jamaica from the 1950s to the 1990s
The Impact of Economic Development on Democracy
Any account of the social and economic conditions of democracy must come to terms with the central finding of the cross-national statistical research: a sturdy (though not perfect) association between economic development and democracy. To tackle these questions of causation, we adopted a strategy of analytic induction based on comparative historical research. Our program of comparative historical research confirmed the conclusion of the cross-na…
Political Parties and Public Pensions: A Quantitative Analysis
This article analyses pooled time series and cross-sections data for pension expenditure in advanced industnal democracies from 1958 to 1986, and cross-sectional data for pension quality and the distributive effect of pensions for 1980. Contrary to previous studies, it demonstrates significant effects of the party political composition of governments ; both Christian democratic and social democratic incumbency are positively associated with pensi…
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
The literature on the determinants of welfare state effort displays many inconsistencies and contradictins. This article takes imoprtant stepts toward resolving these issues with the use of pooled cross-sectional and time-series analyses. The findings are that various independent variables affect different measures of welfare state effort in different and theoretically meaningful ways. Of special importance are the contrasting effects of Christia…
Options for Social Policy in Latin America: Neoliberal Versus Social Democratic Models
Agrarian Structure and Political Power: Landlord and Peasant in the Making of Latin America
The Paradoxes of Contemporary Democracy: Formal, Participatory, and Social Dimensions
care about formal democracy because it tends to be more than merely formal. It tends to be real to some extent. Giving the many a real voice in the formal collective decision-making of a country is the most promising basis for further progress in the distribution of power and other forms of substantive equality.'1 We made this assertion when we introduced the results of a broad-based comparative historical investigation of the roots of democracy …
Internationalization and the Social Democratic Model: Crisis and Future Prospects
This article examines the crisis of the social democratic model in the four countries (Austria, Norway, Finland, and Sweden) in which social democracy was most successful in maintaining and even extending its two central achievements—full employment and the institutional welfare state—through the end of the 1980s. Four major conclusions emerge from the analysis. First, supply side measures, more so than demand management, were central to the empl…
The Welfare State in Hard Times
It is by now a widely accepted view that the sea changes in advanced capitalist economies of the past two decades, above all the increasing internationalization of these economies, have constricted the policy options of the governments of these societies (e.g., see Scharpf 1991). Economic internationalization is assumed strongly to favor market solutions and thus to be particularly unfavorable to policies traditionally promoted by social democrac…
Partisan Governance, Women's Employment, and the Social Democratic Service State
The causes of the expansion and cross-national variation in the provision of welfare state goods and services are examined. Social democratic governance is by far the most important determinant of the public delivery of services and is one of the most important determinants of the public funding of the provision of welfare state goods and services. Christian democratic governance is an important determinant of public funding of services, but is n…
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State: Parties and Policies in Global Markets
Welfare State and Production Regimes in the Era of Retrenchment
This is the first of three chapters on the role of economic interests, and of systems for representing those interests, in the politics of welfare state reform. They explore the linkages between national welfare states and national economies, and examine the processes through which economic actors press their interests on policy makers. Huber and Stephens explore at length the linkages between different types of welfare states and different produ…
Globalisation, Competitiveness, and the Social Democratic Model
For a long time, the discussion about the impact of economic globalisation on the full employment/generous welfare state policies pursued by social democratic governments was characterised by doom and gloom. Glib neo-liberal arguments about the impossibility of maintaining social democratic policies, that were presumably hindering competitiveness through excessive wages and taxes in the new international environment were difficult to counter, bec…
Revolution or Contribution? Rational Choice Approaches in the Study of Latin American Politics
This article assesses the contributions of studies in the rational choice (RC) tradition to scholarly understanding of Latin American politics. It groups some representative works according to their use of RC assumptions, and also reviews some of the major works in the institutionalist tradition. It argues that works in the RC tradition have neither forced a major rethinking of established theories nor filled major lacunae, although they have ill…
Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial Democracies
This article analyzes the processes of distribution and redistribution in postindustrial democracies. The authors combine a pooled time-series data base on welfare state effort and its determinants assembled by Huber, Ragin, and Stephens (1997) with data on income distribution assembled in the Luxembourg Income Survey (IJS) archive. In the case of the LIS data, the authors recalculate the microdata in order to remove the distorting influence of p…
Determinants of Relative Poverty in Advanced Capitalist Democracies
Using relative poverty measures based on micro-level data from the Luxembourg Income Study, in conjunction with pooled time-series data for 14 advanced capitalist democracies between 1970 and 1997, the authors analyze separately the rate of pretax/transfer poverty and the reduction in poverty achieved by systems of taxes and transfers. Socioeconomic factors, including de-industrialization and unemployment, largely explain pre-tax/transfer poverty…
Successes and Failures of Neoliberalism
As Kurt Weyland points out in his introduction, we have a rich scholarly literature on the causes and processes of neoliberal reforms in Latin America and elsewhere.* In contrast, much of the debate about the effects of neoliberal reforms in Latin America has been carried out at a political and ideological level. The image of an overblown and inefficient state that stifles market forces and private initiative has been contrasted with the model of…
Politics and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean
This article presents the first pooled time series analysis of the impact that politics and policy have on inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The authors build on models consisting of sociological and economic variables, adding the strength of the democratic tradition, long-term legislative partisan political power distribution, and social spending to explain variation in inequality. They analyze an unbalanced pooled time series data …
Politics and Social Spending in Latin America
We examine the determinants of social expenditure in an unbalanced pooled time-series analysis for 18 Latin American countries for the period 1970 to 2000. This is the first such analysis of spending in Latin American countries with a full complement of regime, partisanship, state structure, economic, and demographic variables, making our analysis comparable to analyses of welfare states in advanced industrial countries. Democracy matters in the …
The Politics of Women's Economic Independence
Journal Article The Politics of Women's Economic Independence Get access Evelyne Huber, Evelyne Huber Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar John D. Stephens, John D. Stephens Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Bradley, David Bradley Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Moller, Stephanie Moller Search f…
Politics, Policies, and Poverty in Latin America
Poverty has long been recognized as one of the most serious and lasting problems facing Latin America. Recent data from the United Nations' Economic Commission on Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) show that 41 .7 percent of Latin Americans lived in poverty in 2004, while 17.4 percent lived in extreme poverty.1 Despite this generally high level of poverty, there is significant variation among Latin American states. Indeed, in 2002 the share …
Politics and Inequality in Latin America
Our symposium offers a variety of perspectives, such as on self-perpetuation of inequality in the international system, or on the consequences of inequality for economic growth or for social and political conflicts. This contribution discusses the determinants of domestic policy choices that affect inequality and the consequences of these policy choices. The empirical focus is on Latin American countries, which collectively are characterized by t…
Welfare States and the Economy
The literature on welfare states or, more modestly, systems of social protection, has expanded rapidly over the past few decades. Since the publication of the first edition of this Handbook, major progress has been made in three research areas: the relationship between welfare states and production regimes, gendered determinants and outcomes of welfare state regimes, and the distributive outcomes of welfare states. Esping-Andersen ended his chapt…
Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America
A discussion of John S. Ahlquist and Margaret Levi's In the Interest of Others: Organizations and Social Activism
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
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