Partisan politics and economic intervention
Evidence From an Aggregating Approach
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6406489 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fabian Engler (0000-0002-4253-2481, Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University), Jan Jathe (0009-0000-7018-1474, Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University), Reimut Zohlnhöfer (0000-0001-7808-9410, Institute of Political Science, Ruprecht-Karls-University, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 48 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 1361-1388 |
| Publication date | 2025-09-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2024.2328503 |
| OpenAlex | W4393948916 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 47 |
While government intervention in the economy has decreased in recent decades, the literature disagrees on the causes of this development. This article provides a comprehensive picture by aggregating five economic policy instruments (regulation, state ownership, business taxation, subsidisation, government spending) into one index for 20 OECD countries between 1981 and 2018. It studies partisan politics and the conditioning effects of domestic and international economic pressures (unemployment, globalisation). It is argued that the moderating effect varies for short- and long-term pressures for domestic, but not for international factors. Regression analyses highlight the role of political parties with the left increasing intervention. Moreover, partisan differences are particularly relevant when unemployment is high, but disappear as unemployment increases. Regarding globalisation, partisan differences decrease with the level of globalisation, while short-term changes do not condition them. This aggregating approach sheds new light on partisan politics when it comes to state intervention in the economy
Economic system · Economics · Intervention (counseling) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Public economics · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Fiscal Policies and Political Economy · Law · Psychology · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Introduction
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The Political Economy of Privatization in Rich Democracies
The power of talk and the welfare state
The rise and fall of government spending in affluent democracies, 1971–2008
The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state
Labour market liberalization and the rise of dualism in Europe as the interplay between governments, trade unions and the economy
Tax policies in a globalized world
Does government ideology influence deregulation of product markets? Empirical evidence from OECD countries
The determinants of social expenditures in OECD countries
Did globalization restrict partisan politics? An empirical evaluation of social expenditures in a panel of OECD countries
The Diffusion of Privatization in Europe
The Political Economy of State Subsidies in Europe
Bringing agency back into the study of partisan politics
Left parties, voter preferences, and economic policy-making in Europe
Panel data analysis and partisan variables
Privatizing the Public Business Sector in the Eighties
Partisan and Electoral Cycles in Privatisation
The politics of (de)liberalization
Globalization and the Demand-Side of Politics
Not so Harmless After All
What Drives the Diffusion of Privatization Policy? Evidence from the Telecommunications Sector
Europeanization and the retreat of the state
Taxing choices
Party politics and education spending
Labour market- versus life course-related social policies
Why is There No Race to the Bottom in Capital Taxation
The Limits of Politics
A Contagious Concept
The partisan politics of employment protection legislation
Political parties, globalization and labour strength
From myth to reality
Job security regulations in Western democracies
Partisan Politics and Privatization in OECD Countries
The Retreat of the Interventionist State in Advanced Democracies
Globalization, labour power and partisan politics revisited
Partisan differences and the interventionist state in advanced democracies
Remodeling the Competition for Capital
Political Parties and Macroeconomic Policy
Social Democracy, Christian Democracy, Constitutional Structure, and the Welfare State
| Unique citing works | 2 |
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| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |