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Showing 1 to 10 of 10 for “"Comparative political economy"”.
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Three Essays in Comparative Political Economy
… models for different linkages between political parties and the citizens: programmatic linkage and clientelistic linkage. Empirical implications of these models are discussed using real world data on Turkey and USA through statistical analysis and simulation. The last chapter steps back …
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The comparative political economy of working time
… been the subject of intense social and political contestation. Yet work time has been relatively rarely studied by political scientists. This dissertation seeks to correct this neglect by drawing attention to the important connections between work time and two much more widely studied …
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Innovation and the state : development strategies for high technology industries in a world of fragmented production : Israel, Ireland, and Taiwan
… (IT). Surprisingly, from the perspective of comparative political economy theories, the IT industries of these countries use different business models and have carved out different positions in the global IT production networks. Of these emerging economies, the Taiwanese, Israeli, and Irish …
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Subnational Developmentalism: Brazil in Comparative Perspective
… the globe over the last two decades, scholars of comparative political economy have focused primarily on national-level politics. However, most studies overlook the fact that decentralization has enabled subnational actors to re-claim national ""state developmentalist"" roles through policy …
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Corporate governance under stress : an institutional perspective on the transformation of corporate governance in France and Germany
This work contributes to the study of comparative political economy by examining the impact of financial deregulation on corporate governance in the two main continental European economies, France and Germany. It investigates the process of transformation of the systems of corporate governance of …
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Essays on the Political Behavior of Economic Informality and Public Goods
… the relationship between economic informality, political behavior, and public goods provision. In three papers, it explores how seemingly nonpolitical everyday social institutions and collective action rooted in economic informality help extend the reach of the state and advance public policies …
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Consumption and Commodities: The Political Economy of Canada’s Growth Model
… by global interest rate dynamics, majoritarian political institutions, and policies subsidizing demand for homeownership. Politically, the growth strategy underpinning house price appreciation enjoys broad partisan consensus, sustained by a ‘housing bloc’ of homeowning voters, aspiring …
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Workforce Transition Systems and Job Quality in Times of Occupational Structural Change: the Case of Displaced Manufacturing Workers in 21st Century Germany and the United States.
… these processes. Moreover, the theoretical comparative political economy literature is divided on the question of how advanced economies have managed disruptions in a contemporary context. Specifically, there is disagreement as to whether labour market institutions have converged on a …
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The political economy of health: death, disease and distribution
… of health funding and resulting mortality rates. Political importance, not just need, plays a prominent role in determining who lives and dies in democracies. This has profound implications for the plight of modern democracies facing disease threats.
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Constrained Partisanship: A Comparative Study of Policy Choices and Party Discourses in the British and Spanish Crisis Experiences (2008-2014)
… the global financial crisis. To do this, it uses comparative case studies, examining the experience of left- and right-wing governments in both the UK and Spain between 2008 and 2014. The study combines analytical narratives with content-discourse analysis, drawing on an original corpus of …