Stephen Amberg
Biographic Data
| ID | 3628132 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Amberg |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Amberg |
| SIGNATURE | AMBERG S |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at San Antonio |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1576-5984 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 15 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 19 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Policy Models Change
Economic governance typically deploys policy frameworks linked to a model of the economy, but how a policy model is established and changes are questions that continue to puzzle analysts. The authority of the neoliberal model has been explained by the durability of the policy ecology of professional economists and policymakers, but this paper shows that a wider lens on agents and a longer time horizon reveals the emergence of an alternative polic…
Money, Power, and the People
The financial panic of 2008 cast a short shadow in American politics. President George W. Bush and Congress adopted emergency policies to prevent financial collapse. The Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet by trillions of dollars. In 2010 Congress adopted modest regulatory reform. Then it was back to banking as usual and demands for re-deregulation. Christopher W. Shaw's history of “banking politics” revisits the one-hundred-year campaign …
Constructing Industrial Order in the Center of the American Economy
Comparative studies of capitalist political economies have settled on a new understanding of how historical choices about electoral rules were constitutive of the current varieties of capitalism that are distinguished by their strategies of growth and adjustment to competitive conditions. The countries that have “coordinated market economies” typically have well-organized unions and employers with distinct partisan representation under multiparty…
Third Wave Capitalism
John Ehrenreich argues that third-wave capitalism (his label for what many others call neoliberalism) undermined health care, schooling, antipoverty and racial justice efforts, the role of professionals, and individual confidence in the American dream. The first chapter outlines a theory of stages of capitalist development. The four chapters that follow detail historical changes in the ways that society manages social needs. The next chapters exa…
Social learning in active labor market policy in Denmark
This article examines the experience of employment policy in Denmark as a case of how one country deployed an experimental design to shape the evolution of its political economy. This article distinguishes social learning from interest and authority-based arguments in theories of institutional change and development. The argument of this article is that learning processes contributed to incremental developments that both Liberal and Social Democr…
Liberal Market Economy or Composite Regime? Institutional Legacies and Labor Market Policy in the United States
In comparative political economy the United States is denominated a “liberal market economy” characterized by market-based labor policy, but American political development studies suggest that national-level comparisons, which assume government institutions are a coherent package, may be misguided. In the decentralized American polity, many combinations of state-market relationships have emerged as state governments invest in labor market perform…
Varieties of Capitalist Development
Wages, benefits, and workers' rights in the American South lagged behind the national average throughout the New Deal era even after southern states industrialized after the Second World War. This article deepens arguments about a distinctive regional variety of capitalism. It emphasizes how the institutions that define rights and authority over such economic decisions as what kind of jobs to create and how industries should compete constitute th…
Varieties of Capitalist Development
Wages, benefits, and workers’ rights in the American South lagged behind the national average throughout the New Deal era even after southern states industrialized after the Second World War. This article deepens arguments about a distinctive regional variety of capitalism. It emphasizes how the institutions that define rights and authority over such economic decisions as what kind of jobs to create and how industries should compete constitute th…
The Paradox of American Unionism
The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less. By Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz with Rafael Gomez and Ivan Katchanovski. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 240p. $32.50. This short book asks excellent questions and presents interesting results from a survey of Canadian and U.S. attitudes toward unions, as well as useful data on union membership, but its explanation of the…
Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas
Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas
The United States is a country in which the working classes are not well organized to participate in politics and the workplace. Four theoretical approaches encompass most explanations. They are culture and identity theories, convergence theories, centerperiphery theories, and institutional theories. Focusing on one specific case, the state of Texas, this article suggests that each approach can contribute to a political construction approach to t…
Declension and Construction Themes in the Study of Labor Politics in the United States
The precipitous decline in collective bargaining between employees and employers during the last twenty-five years of the twentieth century in the United States should tell us something useful about American political development. The decline of collective bargaining is about more than waning union influence or competitive conditions in the labor market because collective bargaining was the primary expression of the regime established by the New …
The Shadow Welfare State
The Union Inspiration in American Politics
Trade Union Politics
The Union Inspiration in American Politics
Journal Article The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order. By Stephen Amberg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. xiv, 354 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-56639-189-X.) Get access Melvyn Dubofsky Melvyn Dubofsky Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
The End of the Line
Watergate in American Memory
Journal Article Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past, by Michael Schudson Get access Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past by Michael Schudson. New York, Basic Books, 1992. 282pp. $24.00. Stephen Amberg Stephen Amberg The University of Texas at San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
Democratic producersm
Employee participation in management is a common element of on-going industrial relatons reforms. Current liberal productivist models of reform focus workplace co-operation between workers and managers and on competition among plants. Although there are serious pitfalls for unions on co-operation, American unious have a long history of interest in producerist schemes of labour participation. This essay argues that the actual character of industri…
Watergate in American Memory
Journal Article Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past, by Michael Schudson Get access Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past by Michael Schudson. New York, Basic Books, 1992. 282pp. $24.00. Stephen Amberg Stephen Amberg The University of Texas at San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
Liberal Market Economy or Composite Regime? Institutional Legacies and Labor Market Policy in the United States
In comparative political economy the United States is denominated a “liberal market economy” characterized by market-based labor policy, but American political development studies suggest that national-level comparisons, which assume government institutions are a coherent package, may be misguided. In the decentralized American polity, many combinations of state-market relationships have emerged as state governments invest in labor market perform…
Declension and Construction Themes in the Study of Labor Politics in the United States
The precipitous decline in collective bargaining between employees and employers during the last twenty-five years of the twentieth century in the United States should tell us something useful about American political development. The decline of collective bargaining is about more than waning union influence or competitive conditions in the labor market because collective bargaining was the primary expression of the regime established by the New …
Democratic producersm
Employee participation in management is a common element of on-going industrial relatons reforms. Current liberal productivist models of reform focus workplace co-operation between workers and managers and on competition among plants. Although there are serious pitfalls for unions on co-operation, American unious have a long history of interest in producerist schemes of labour participation. This essay argues that the actual character of industri…
How Policy Models Change
Economic governance typically deploys policy frameworks linked to a model of the economy, but how a policy model is established and changes are questions that continue to puzzle analysts. The authority of the neoliberal model has been explained by the durability of the policy ecology of professional economists and policymakers, but this paper shows that a wider lens on agents and a longer time horizon reveals the emergence of an alternative polic…
Constructing Industrial Order in the Center of the American Economy
Comparative studies of capitalist political economies have settled on a new understanding of how historical choices about electoral rules were constitutive of the current varieties of capitalism that are distinguished by their strategies of growth and adjustment to competitive conditions. The countries that have “coordinated market economies” typically have well-organized unions and employers with distinct partisan representation under multiparty…
Social learning in active labor market policy in Denmark
This article examines the experience of employment policy in Denmark as a case of how one country deployed an experimental design to shape the evolution of its political economy. This article distinguishes social learning from interest and authority-based arguments in theories of institutional change and development. The argument of this article is that learning processes contributed to incremental developments that both Liberal and Social Democr…
Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas
The United States is a country in which the working classes are not well organized to participate in politics and the workplace. Four theoretical approaches encompass most explanations. They are culture and identity theories, convergence theories, centerperiphery theories, and institutional theories. Focusing on one specific case, the state of Texas, this article suggests that each approach can contribute to a political construction approach to t…
Democratic producersm
Employee participation in management is a common element of on-going industrial relatons reforms. Current liberal productivist models of reform focus workplace co-operation between workers and managers and on competition among plants. Although there are serious pitfalls for unions on co-operation, American unious have a long history of interest in producerist schemes of labour participation. This essay argues that the actual character of industri…
Watergate in American Memory
Journal Article Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past, by Michael Schudson Get access Watergate in American Memory: How We Remember, Forget, and Reconstruct the Past by Michael Schudson. New York, Basic Books, 1992. 282pp. $24.00. Stephen Amberg Stephen Amberg The University of Texas at San Antonio Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume…
The Union Inspiration in American Politics
Journal Article The Union Inspiration in American Politics: The Autoworkers and the Making of a Liberal Industrial Order. By Stephen Amberg. (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1994. xiv, 354 pp. $44.95, ISBN 1-56639-189-X.) Get access Melvyn Dubofsky Melvyn Dubofsky Binghamton University, State University of New York, Binghamton, New York Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Vo…
The End of the Line
The Union Inspiration in American Politics
Trade Union Politics
The Shadow Welfare State
Declension and Construction Themes in the Study of Labor Politics in the United States
The precipitous decline in collective bargaining between employees and employers during the last twenty-five years of the twentieth century in the United States should tell us something useful about American political development. The decline of collective bargaining is about more than waning union influence or competitive conditions in the labor market because collective bargaining was the primary expression of the regime established by the New …
Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas
Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas
The United States is a country in which the working classes are not well organized to participate in politics and the workplace. Four theoretical approaches encompass most explanations. They are culture and identity theories, convergence theories, centerperiphery theories, and institutional theories. Focusing on one specific case, the state of Texas, this article suggests that each approach can contribute to a political construction approach to t…
The Paradox of American Unionism
The Paradox of American Unionism: Why Americans Like Unions More Than Canadians Do, but Join Much Less. By Seymour Martin Lipset and Noah M. Meltz with Rafael Gomez and Ivan Katchanovski. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2004. 240p. $32.50. This short book asks excellent questions and presents interesting results from a survey of Canadian and U.S. attitudes toward unions, as well as useful data on union membership, but its explanation of the…
Varieties of Capitalist Development
Wages, benefits, and workers' rights in the American South lagged behind the national average throughout the New Deal era even after southern states industrialized after the Second World War. This article deepens arguments about a distinctive regional variety of capitalism. It emphasizes how the institutions that define rights and authority over such economic decisions as what kind of jobs to create and how industries should compete constitute th…
Varieties of Capitalist Development
Wages, benefits, and workers’ rights in the American South lagged behind the national average throughout the New Deal era even after southern states industrialized after the Second World War. This article deepens arguments about a distinctive regional variety of capitalism. It emphasizes how the institutions that define rights and authority over such economic decisions as what kind of jobs to create and how industries should compete constitute th…
Liberal Market Economy or Composite Regime? Institutional Legacies and Labor Market Policy in the United States
In comparative political economy the United States is denominated a “liberal market economy” characterized by market-based labor policy, but American political development studies suggest that national-level comparisons, which assume government institutions are a coherent package, may be misguided. In the decentralized American polity, many combinations of state-market relationships have emerged as state governments invest in labor market perform…
Social learning in active labor market policy in Denmark
This article examines the experience of employment policy in Denmark as a case of how one country deployed an experimental design to shape the evolution of its political economy. This article distinguishes social learning from interest and authority-based arguments in theories of institutional change and development. The argument of this article is that learning processes contributed to incremental developments that both Liberal and Social Democr…
Constructing Industrial Order in the Center of the American Economy
Comparative studies of capitalist political economies have settled on a new understanding of how historical choices about electoral rules were constitutive of the current varieties of capitalism that are distinguished by their strategies of growth and adjustment to competitive conditions. The countries that have “coordinated market economies” typically have well-organized unions and employers with distinct partisan representation under multiparty…
Third Wave Capitalism
John Ehrenreich argues that third-wave capitalism (his label for what many others call neoliberalism) undermined health care, schooling, antipoverty and racial justice efforts, the role of professionals, and individual confidence in the American dream. The first chapter outlines a theory of stages of capitalist development. The four chapters that follow detail historical changes in the ways that society manages social needs. The next chapters exa…
Money, Power, and the People
The financial panic of 2008 cast a short shadow in American politics. President George W. Bush and Congress adopted emergency policies to prevent financial collapse. The Federal Reserve expanded its balance sheet by trillions of dollars. In 2010 Congress adopted modest regulatory reform. Then it was back to banking as usual and demands for re-deregulation. Christopher W. Shaw's history of “banking politics” revisits the one-hundred-year campaign …
How Policy Models Change
Economic governance typically deploys policy frameworks linked to a model of the economy, but how a policy model is established and changes are questions that continue to puzzle analysts. The authority of the neoliberal model has been explained by the durability of the policy ecology of professional economists and policymakers, but this paper shows that a wider lens on agents and a longer time horizon reveals the emergence of an alternative polic…
Political science (17 works) · Economics (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Political economy (13 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Market economy (7 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works)