Democracy, Policy Interdependence, and Labor Rights
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6340923 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Zhiyuan Wang (0000-0002-1576-6995, Bryn Mawr College, PA, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 549-563 |
| Publication date | 2017-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Political Research Quarterly (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1065-9129 • E-ISSN: 1938-274X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1065912917704517 |
| OpenAlex | W2606991371 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 69 |
In this study, I examine how domestic regimes mitigate pressure from economically competing states to reduce the protection of labor rights. I argue that democratic states provide higher protection and are more resistant to this downward policy pressure for two main reasons. Directly, democracy empowers workers through freedom of association and enfranchisement. Indirectly, democracy offers better protection of property rights, which lessens the need to use labor rights as an economic incentive. I also argue that this resistance to the downward pressure is more pronounced in practice than in law. These expectations are supported through spatial analyses of a new global dataset on association and collective-bargaining rights for the period 1994–2012. The results remain robust to alternative measures of labor rights, different model specifications, and various econometric estimators
Collective bargaining · Democracy · Economics · Freedom of association · Human rights · Incentive · Labor relations · Labour economics · Law and economics · Market economy · Microeconomics · Political science · Politics · Property rights · Corruption and Economic Development · Law · Regulation and Compliance Studies · Taxation and Compliance Studies
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Thinking outside the Box
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New Tools in Comparative Political Economy
The State and Labor in Modern America.
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Structural equivalence
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Active Judiciary”
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Thinking Inside the Box
Shaming and Blaming
Competing for Scarce Foreign Capital
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International Negotiations and Domestic Politics
Why Democracies Cooperate More
Reversal of Fortunes
Competing for Capital
Conditional Spatial Policy Dependence
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Democratization and Economic Globalization
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Armed Conflict 1946-2001
Democracy, Revolution, and History
Remodeling the Competition for Capital
Dictatorship, Democracy, and Development
Labouring against Neoliberalism
Trade-based Diffusion of Labor Rights
Labor Reform and Dual Transitions in Brazil and the Southern Cone
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Human Rights in a Globalizing World
| Unique citing works | 7 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |