Policy Characteristics, Patterns of Politics, and the Minimum Wage
Toward a Typology of Redistributive Policies
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6328252 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael T Hayes (Colgate University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 35 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 465-480 |
| Publication date | 2007-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Policy Studies Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0190-292X • E-ISSN: 1541-0072 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2007.00233.x |
| OpenAlex | W1968750912 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 6 |
| References cited | 31 |
The central hypothesis of all policy typologies is that distinctively different patterns of politics can be identified for different types of public policy issues. Lowi identified three different policy types, which he termed distributive, regulative, and redistributive, each of which triggers a distinctively different pattern of political behavior. Unfortunately, Lowi's categories were inductively derived and ambiguously defined, leading to disagreements over how to categorize particular policies. Hayes built on Lowi's seminal effort, deriving Lowi's three policy categories from two underlying dimensions and identifying additional categories Lowi's original formulation had missed. Using the minimum wage issue as an example, this article will identify a critical deficiency in both these typologies. While Hayes' typology defines the boundaries between policy categories more precisely than Lowi's, neither typology is equipped to deal with variations in political patterns occurring within a particular cell. As this article will show, the minimum wage issue, although consistently redistributive in Hayes' terms, has manifested three very different patterns of politics at different points in time. Accordingly, a typology of redistributive policies will be advanced to account for these variations in the redistributive politics of the minimum wage
Distributive property · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Political science · Politics · Public economics · Public policy · Sociology · Typology · Wage · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Law · Mathematics · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Covering All the Bases
Comparing Minimum Wage Policies in East Asia
From a Narrowly Defined Minimum Wageto Broader Wage Policy
The Determinants of Policy Introduction and Bill Adoption
Income inequality and the growth of redistributive spending in the United States (US) states
The Politics of the Minimum Wage in Hong Kong
Political organizations
The governmental process
Policy analysis in political science.
The end of liberalism
An Exchange Theory of Interest Groups
Theories of Economic Regulation
The Theory of Economic Regulation
The State in Capitalist Society
Power and poverty
Agendas, alternatives, and public policies
The Logic of Collective Action
Congress, the Bureaucracy, and Public Policy
The Group Basis of Politics
Decision Making vs. Policy Making
Determining Legislative Preferences on the Minimum Wage
Theory and Evidence on the Political Economy of the Minimum Wage
The Political Economy of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938
The Minimum Wage as a Redistributive Tool
Myth and Measurement
The Process of Government
American Business, Public Policy, Case-Studies, and Political Theory
The Market as Prison
The Semi-Sovereign Pressure Groups
Four Systems of Policy, Politics, and Choice
Promoting Policy Theory
A Theory of Competition Among Pressure Groups for Political Influence
Class Power and State Policy
The Case of the Minimum Wage
| Unique citing works | 6 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2025 (15) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |