Globalization, labour power and partisan politics revisited

Dados Bibliográficos

ID4237696
AutoresHee Young Kwon (0000-0002-8158-4110, Korea University), Jonas G Pontusson (0000-0001-8550-9022, Princeton University), J Pontusson
Ano2010
Volume8
Fascículo2
Páginas251-281
Data de publicação2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoSocio-Economic Review (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1475-1461 • E-ISSN: 1475-147X
EditoraOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/ser/mwp035
OpenAlexW2066147500
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas75
Referências citadas42

This paper explores temporal variation in partisan effects on social spending growth in OECD countries over the period 1971-2002. We argue that partisan effects are jointly conditioned by globalization and the mobilizational capacity of organized labour. We present three main empirical findings. First, we show that partisan effects increased from the mid-1970s to the late 1980s and then disappeared in the 1990s. Second, we show that partisan effects rose with globalization in the 1970s and early 1980s, a period characterized by rising labour strength in many OECD countries, but this is not true for the post-1990 period, characterized by declining labour strength. Third, we show that globalization was associated with declining partisan effects in countries that experienced union decline in the 1980s and 1990s, but it was associated with rising partisan effects in countries in which unions remained strong

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