Damian Rae
Biographic Data
| ID | 262239 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Damian Rae |
| GIVEN NAMES | Damian |
| FAMILY NAME | Rae |
| SIGNATURE | RAE D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2715-2074 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 105 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Friending or Blocking? U.S. Public Attitudes toward Restricting Foreign Social Media Apps
What influences U.S. public support for bans of foreign social media applications? In particular, how do concerns about national security, economic opportunities and threats (such as industrial espionage), reciprocal market access, and the policies and traits of an app influence individual support for banning? We address these questions through a conjoint experiment conducted in November 2024 (N = 1,494). Respondents weighed security threats (suc…
The “Social Europe” effect: Does southern foreign direct investment in Europe improve labor rights in the Global South
International audience
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: Trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows
I examine whether union membership affects individual foreign direct investment (FDI) preferences in ways that vary across investors’ country of origin. I argue that the country of FDI origin will bear upon how union members assess FDI, because it provides cues about what the economic prospects of (unionized) workers will look like under different foreign investors. I argue that the salient attribute of foreign investors is whether they originate…
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises
This article investigates the effect of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the three international economic crises of 1981–1984, 1990–1994 and 2008–2013. Encompassing 19–23 advanced democracies, the statistical analysis suggests that partisan effects have increased over time and are characterized, in the two last crises, by a “new asymmetry” whereby left governments pursued more contractionary fiscal policies than non-left go…
Hidden Strings Attached? Chinese (Commercially Oriented) Foreign Aid and International Political Alignment
We examine the impact of China's commercially oriented forms of state financing, the dominant type of Chinese aid, on voting alignment between recipient countries and China in the United Nations General Assembly. Previous research has shown these types of aid flows to follow economic interests, suggesting they have no political ramifications. Given the principles, motives and process of China's foreign aid program, and the associated economic and…
The demand-side politics of China’s global buying spree: Managers’ attitudes toward Chinese inward FDI flows in comparative perspective
I investigate public opinion toward Chinese FDI inflows in advanced economies, comparing attitudes toward such investment with attitudes toward American and European FDI inflows. I am interested in whether concerns with technology transfer (and related job losses) commonly associated with Chinese FDI resonate among the key target audience, namely managers. Accordingly, I expect managers to less strongly support Chinese FDI inflows relative to FDI…
The politics of fiscal policy during economic downturns, 1981–2010
This article investigates fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession in historical perspective. It explores general trends in the frequency, size and composition of fiscal stimulus as well as the impact of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the four international recessions of 1980–1981, 1990–1991, 2001–2002 and 2008–2009. Encompassing 17–23 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the analy…
Export Dependence and Institutional Change in Wage Bargaining in Germany
This article explores the adjustment of wage bargaining institutions to international trade in Germany. Embracing IPE as opposed to CPE lenses yields a novel interpretation of change in the institution of wage bargaining. Export dependence of a sector, we argue, has destabilizing effects for industry-wide bargaining by sparking an intra-sectoral cleavage between domestic- and export-oriented enterprises. Specifically, the greater the degree of ex…
Switzerland in Europe. Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy
Switzerland in Europe. Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy Trampusch, Christine and Mach, André ( eds .) Abingdon : Routledge ( 2011 ), 244 p., ISBN 978-0-415-58051-9 The volume Switzerland in Europe edited by Christine Trampusch and André Mach is a salutary initiative. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the Swiss political economy. The editors crafted a volume that is resolutely comparative and international in outl…
How (and Why) Is This Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States
This article compares government responses to the Great Recession of 2008–2009 with government responses to recessions and other economic challenges in the period 1974–1982. We focus on five countries: France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Across these countries, we observe two broad shifts in crisis responses. First, governments have in the recent period eschewed heterodox crisis policies and relied more exclusively…
The Politics of Economic Crisis in Historical‐Comparative Perspective
What pundits commonly call the “Great Recession” of 2008-09 was the most severe economic downturn experienced by the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe and North America since the 1930s. According to the OECD, American GDP declined by 3.9% from the end of 2007 to the end of 2009. The UK fared worse than the US (-5.5%), France better (-2.8%) and Germany just about the same (-4.0%). Economic growth recovered in 2010, but the recovery h…
Does the global economy mean more sweat? Trade, investment, migration and working hours in Europe
This paper investigates how international trade, investment and migration affect establishment-level standard weekly hours in Europe. These aspects of globalization have offsetting implications that make it unclear whether they spur, reduce or have little effect on standard hours. To explore these possibilities, the paper analyses a survey of establishments in 18 European countries. The analysis reveals significant diversity in how different ‘fac…
Globalization and Working Time: Working Hours and Flexibility in Germany
This article challenges popular wisdom that economic globalization uniformly increases working time in industrialized countries. International investment and trade, they argue, have uneven effects for workplace bargaining over standard hours and over work-time flexibility, such as use of temporary or fixed work contracts. The authors explain how such globalization will tend to more substantially decrease standard hours than it does work-time flex…
Globalization and why the ‘time is ripe’ for the transformation of German industrial relations
International audience
How (and Why) Is This Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States
This article compares government responses to the Great Recession of 2008–2009 with government responses to recessions and other economic challenges in the period 1974–1982. We focus on five countries: France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Across these countries, we observe two broad shifts in crisis responses. First, governments have in the recent period eschewed heterodox crisis policies and relied more exclusively…
The politics of fiscal policy during economic downturns, 1981–2010
This article investigates fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession in historical perspective. It explores general trends in the frequency, size and composition of fiscal stimulus as well as the impact of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the four international recessions of 1980–1981, 1990–1991, 2001–2002 and 2008–2009. Encompassing 17–23 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the analy…
Globalization and why the ‘time is ripe’ for the transformation of German industrial relations
International audience
Globalization and Working Time: Working Hours and Flexibility in Germany
This article challenges popular wisdom that economic globalization uniformly increases working time in industrialized countries. International investment and trade, they argue, have uneven effects for workplace bargaining over standard hours and over work-time flexibility, such as use of temporary or fixed work contracts. The authors explain how such globalization will tend to more substantially decrease standard hours than it does work-time flex…
Hidden Strings Attached? Chinese (Commercially Oriented) Foreign Aid and International Political Alignment
We examine the impact of China's commercially oriented forms of state financing, the dominant type of Chinese aid, on voting alignment between recipient countries and China in the United Nations General Assembly. Previous research has shown these types of aid flows to follow economic interests, suggesting they have no political ramifications. Given the principles, motives and process of China's foreign aid program, and the associated economic and…
Switzerland in Europe. Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy
Switzerland in Europe. Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy Trampusch, Christine and Mach, André ( eds .) Abingdon : Routledge ( 2011 ), 244 p., ISBN 978-0-415-58051-9 The volume Switzerland in Europe edited by Christine Trampusch and André Mach is a salutary initiative. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the Swiss political economy. The editors crafted a volume that is resolutely comparative and international in outl…
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises
This article investigates the effect of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the three international economic crises of 1981–1984, 1990–1994 and 2008–2013. Encompassing 19–23 advanced democracies, the statistical analysis suggests that partisan effects have increased over time and are characterized, in the two last crises, by a “new asymmetry” whereby left governments pursued more contractionary fiscal policies than non-left go…
Does the global economy mean more sweat? Trade, investment, migration and working hours in Europe
This paper investigates how international trade, investment and migration affect establishment-level standard weekly hours in Europe. These aspects of globalization have offsetting implications that make it unclear whether they spur, reduce or have little effect on standard hours. To explore these possibilities, the paper analyses a survey of establishments in 18 European countries. The analysis reveals significant diversity in how different ‘fac…
The demand-side politics of China’s global buying spree: Managers’ attitudes toward Chinese inward FDI flows in comparative perspective
I investigate public opinion toward Chinese FDI inflows in advanced economies, comparing attitudes toward such investment with attitudes toward American and European FDI inflows. I am interested in whether concerns with technology transfer (and related job losses) commonly associated with Chinese FDI resonate among the key target audience, namely managers. Accordingly, I expect managers to less strongly support Chinese FDI inflows relative to FDI…
Export Dependence and Institutional Change in Wage Bargaining in Germany
This article explores the adjustment of wage bargaining institutions to international trade in Germany. Embracing IPE as opposed to CPE lenses yields a novel interpretation of change in the institution of wage bargaining. Export dependence of a sector, we argue, has destabilizing effects for industry-wide bargaining by sparking an intra-sectoral cleavage between domestic- and export-oriented enterprises. Specifically, the greater the degree of ex…
Globalization and why the ‘time is ripe’ for the transformation of German industrial relations
International audience
Globalization and Working Time: Working Hours and Flexibility in Germany
This article challenges popular wisdom that economic globalization uniformly increases working time in industrialized countries. International investment and trade, they argue, have uneven effects for workplace bargaining over standard hours and over work-time flexibility, such as use of temporary or fixed work contracts. The authors explain how such globalization will tend to more substantially decrease standard hours than it does work-time flex…
Does the global economy mean more sweat? Trade, investment, migration and working hours in Europe
This paper investigates how international trade, investment and migration affect establishment-level standard weekly hours in Europe. These aspects of globalization have offsetting implications that make it unclear whether they spur, reduce or have little effect on standard hours. To explore these possibilities, the paper analyses a survey of establishments in 18 European countries. The analysis reveals significant diversity in how different ‘fac…
Switzerland in Europe. Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy
Switzerland in Europe. Continuity and Change in the Swiss Political Economy Trampusch, Christine and Mach, André ( eds .) Abingdon : Routledge ( 2011 ), 244 p., ISBN 978-0-415-58051-9 The volume Switzerland in Europe edited by Christine Trampusch and André Mach is a salutary initiative. It provides the first comprehensive overview of the Swiss political economy. The editors crafted a volume that is resolutely comparative and international in outl…
How (and Why) Is This Time Different? The Politics of Economic Crisis in Western Europe and the United States
This article compares government responses to the Great Recession of 2008–2009 with government responses to recessions and other economic challenges in the period 1974–1982. We focus on five countries: France, Germany, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Across these countries, we observe two broad shifts in crisis responses. First, governments have in the recent period eschewed heterodox crisis policies and relied more exclusively…
The Politics of Economic Crisis in Historical‐Comparative Perspective
What pundits commonly call the “Great Recession” of 2008-09 was the most severe economic downturn experienced by the advanced capitalist countries of Western Europe and North America since the 1930s. According to the OECD, American GDP declined by 3.9% from the end of 2007 to the end of 2009. The UK fared worse than the US (-5.5%), France better (-2.8%) and Germany just about the same (-4.0%). Economic growth recovered in 2010, but the recovery h…
Export Dependence and Institutional Change in Wage Bargaining in Germany
This article explores the adjustment of wage bargaining institutions to international trade in Germany. Embracing IPE as opposed to CPE lenses yields a novel interpretation of change in the institution of wage bargaining. Export dependence of a sector, we argue, has destabilizing effects for industry-wide bargaining by sparking an intra-sectoral cleavage between domestic- and export-oriented enterprises. Specifically, the greater the degree of ex…
The politics of fiscal policy during economic downturns, 1981–2010
This article investigates fiscal policy responses to the Great Recession in historical perspective. It explores general trends in the frequency, size and composition of fiscal stimulus as well as the impact of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the four international recessions of 1980–1981, 1990–1991, 2001–2002 and 2008–2009. Encompassing 17–23 Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) countries, the analy…
The demand-side politics of China’s global buying spree: Managers’ attitudes toward Chinese inward FDI flows in comparative perspective
I investigate public opinion toward Chinese FDI inflows in advanced economies, comparing attitudes toward such investment with attitudes toward American and European FDI inflows. I am interested in whether concerns with technology transfer (and related job losses) commonly associated with Chinese FDI resonate among the key target audience, namely managers. Accordingly, I expect managers to less strongly support Chinese FDI inflows relative to FDI…
Hidden Strings Attached? Chinese (Commercially Oriented) Foreign Aid and International Political Alignment
We examine the impact of China's commercially oriented forms of state financing, the dominant type of Chinese aid, on voting alignment between recipient countries and China in the United Nations General Assembly. Previous research has shown these types of aid flows to follow economic interests, suggesting they have no political ramifications. Given the principles, motives and process of China's foreign aid program, and the associated economic and…
Globalization and Austerity: Flipping Partisan Effects on Fiscal Policy During (Recent) International Crises
This article investigates the effect of government partisanship on fiscal policy outputs during the three international economic crises of 1981–1984, 1990–1994 and 2008–2013. Encompassing 19–23 advanced democracies, the statistical analysis suggests that partisan effects have increased over time and are characterized, in the two last crises, by a “new asymmetry” whereby left governments pursued more contractionary fiscal policies than non-left go…
The “Social Europe” effect: Does southern foreign direct investment in Europe improve labor rights in the Global South
International audience
Disentangling public opposition to Chinese FDI: Trade unions, patient capital, and members’ preferences over FDI inflows
I examine whether union membership affects individual foreign direct investment (FDI) preferences in ways that vary across investors’ country of origin. I argue that the country of FDI origin will bear upon how union members assess FDI, because it provides cues about what the economic prospects of (unionized) workers will look like under different foreign investors. I argue that the salient attribute of foreign investors is whether they originate…
Friending or Blocking? U.S. Public Attitudes toward Restricting Foreign Social Media Apps
What influences U.S. public support for bans of foreign social media applications? In particular, how do concerns about national security, economic opportunities and threats (such as industrial espionage), reciprocal market access, and the policies and traits of an app influence individual support for banning? We address these questions through a conjoint experiment conducted in November 2024 (N = 1,494). Respondents weighed security threats (suc…
Economics (13 works) · Political science (10 works) · Market economy (9 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (9 works) · Globalization (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · International trade (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (6 works) · Macroeconomics (5 works) · Political economy (5 works)