University of Toronto Department of Political Science POL 472H / 2372H

The Comparative of Industrial Societies Fall 2012

Professor: Rodney Haddow Class time: Thursday, 2-4 Class location: UC 67 My office location: 3119 Sydney Smith Hall; 100 St. George Street Office hours: Tuesday, 4:30-5:30; Thursday, 4:30-5:30 E-mail: [email protected] Telephone: (416) 978-8710 [NB: It is much easier to reach me by e-mail than to contact me by phone at this number, except during office hours!]

Course description: This seminar course examines the relationship of state and economy in advanced capitalist democracies, assessing the importance of differences across time and space for a proper understanding of this connection. It investigates the ‘variable geometry’ of the relationship between the exercise of sovereign authority and the production and distribution of wealth and income under advanced . There is now a voluminous and dynamic literature within political science on these questions. We will start with an examination of the current debate about the ‘Varieties of Capitalism’ (VoC) approach to comparative political economy and its alternatives, antecedents and relevance to Canada. The course then addresses the state’s possibly shifting scale, its role in stimulating growth and in macro-economic policy, the impact of trade unions, and the social basis of voting and electoral systems.

Format: This is a seminar course; classroom sessions will be devoted to the discussion of the readings assigned for that session. Students are expected to complete the required readings, even when they are not submitting a paper or making an oral presentation.

Readings: There are four articles listed under ‘required readings’ for each week of the course. All four readings are mandatory for graduate students, and must be incorporated into submitted essays. Undergraduate students are required only to do three of these readings each week, and to write about those three when preparing a paper. I recommend that they select the first three readings listed under each topic. (For the first week only, graduate students must complete only three readings, undergraduate students must read only two). The list of ‘additional readings’ underneath each topic is for your information only, in case you wish to study a theme in greater depth. Required readings that are not available in electronic journals or on the course web site have included in a course pack. Course pack readings are identified with a [P]. It is best to access articles from UTL by typing the journal name in the ‘e journals’ 2

window; then click on one of the search engines that comes up as an option for accessing it. I have accessed each article recently (late August), and have indicated for each article which engine I was able to use to access it fairly easily. When available, ‘Scholars Portal’ usually works well, though not always. You should get the PDF version of articles. Information about how to obtain the course pack will be available at the first class.

Grading Scheme and Course Requirements:

POL 472H:

4 short essays (4-6 pages each) 80% [double spaced, minimum 12 pt.] (each essay is worth 20%)

1 oral presentation 5% (in conjunction with one of the above)

Oral participation 15%

POL 2372H:

5 short essays (4-6 pages each) 80% [double spaced, minimum 12 pt.] (each essay is worth 15%; your best is worth 20%)

1 oral presentation 5% (in conjunction with on one of the above)

Oral participation 15%

Written and oral assignments: The most important responsibility for students in the course is to prepare four 4-5 page (1000-1250 words) (undergraduate) or five 5-6 page (graduate) (1250-1500 word) papers, based on the assigned readings. There is considerable flexibility regarding which topics you write on, but at least one paper must be submitted by October 25 to comply with the university’s course-drop decline. These essays are expected to accomplish two tasks: [a] they should provide a clear review of the main arguments made by each of the readings assigned for that week; and [b] they should make an argument, by pointing to a major issue or theme addressed in the readings, comparing what the different authors have to say about this question, and evaluating these different perspectives. Needless to say, papers should be written in good standard English, and with appropriate references to the sources used Essays are due in class, at the beginning of the class, on the date when their topic will be discussed in the seminar. Because the seminar discussion should serve to clarify the readings for all participants, it would not be fair for me to accept papers submitted late without significant penalty. Consequently, late papers will be subject to a penalty of 3

10% during the first 24 hours after they are due, and of 20% thereafter. The 10% penalty will rise to 20% for a second or subsequent one-day-late assignment. In conjunction with one of these essays, each student will also make one 10 minute presentation of their argument, in class. Presentations should not simply summarize the readings. They should be argumentative, and provide a cogent analysis of a theme relevant to the readings. The presenter should assume that other seminar participants are familiar with the readings. Students will sign up for a presentation during the second week of classes; there will be a maximum of two presentations per class, unless enrolment is so large as to require more. Finally, students will be graded for participation. Five marks will be assigned based on attendance at class. Only documented medical grounds will be accepted as an explanation of non-attendance. Students will lose one per cent of their term grade for each class missed without evidence of such grounds. (If more than five classes are missed, further grades will be deducted). The other ten marks will be based on the quality and quantity of each student’s involvement in oral discussions. It is not essential that you be talking all the time. But I do expect each student to make an effort to contribute to each week’s seminar discussion. In evaluating this participation, I am particularly interested in the extent to which the oral contribution shows a correct understanding of the readings, and gives evidence that the student has reflected upon them. Particular emphasis will be attached to each student’s contribution during weeks when they are not submitting an essay.

Seminar themes and readings:

1. September 13: Introduction to the Course.

2. September 20: Hall & Soskice’s ‘Varieties of Capitalism’: What are this typology’s insights and failings? Required Readings: Peter Hall, and David Soskice, “An Introduction to Varieties of Capitalism,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 1-68 [UTL: Oxford Scholarship Online] Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher, “Introduction: Beyond Varieties of Capitalism,” in B. Hanché, et al., eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 3-38 [UTL: Oxford Scholarship Online] Gregory Jackson and Richard Deeg, “From comparing to the politics of institutional change,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 15, no. 4 (2008), 680-709 [UTL: Scholars Portal] A completely optional 4th article: Terence Casey, “Mapping stability and change in advanced capitalism,” Comparative European Politics, vol. 7, no. 2 (2009), 255-278 [UTL: ProQuest] Additional Readings: Albo, Greg, “Contesting the ‘New Capitalism’?”, in D. Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 63-82. Blyth, Mark, “Same as it Never was: Temporality and Typology in the Varieties of Capitalism,” Comparative European Politics, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 215-225 4

Coates, David, Models of Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity, 2000). Crouch, Colin, “Models of Capitalism,” New Political Economy, vol. 10 (2005), pp. 439- 456. Deeg, Richard, “Complementarity and institutional change in capitalist systems,” Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14, no. 4 (2007), 611-630. Deeg, Richard and Gregory Jackson, “Towards a More Dynamic Theory of Capitalist Variety,” Socio-Economic Review, vol. 5 (2007), 149-179. Goodin, Robert, “Choose your Capitalism?” Comparative European Politics, vol. 1 (2002), pp. 203-213. Hall, Peter, and Daniel Gingerich, “Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Complementarities in the Political Economy: An Empirical Analysis,” British Journal of Political Science, vol. 39, no. 3 (2009), 449-482. Hay, Colin, “Two Can Play this Game … or Can They?” in D. Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 106-121. Hall, Peter, and David Soskice, “Varieties of Capitalism and Institutional Change: A Response to Three Critics,” Comparative European Politics, vol. 1 (2003), pp. 241-250. Hay, Colin, “Common Trajectories, Variable Paces, Divergent Outcomes?” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 11 (2004), pp. 231-262 Hopner, Martin, “What connects industrial relations and corporate governance? Explaining institutional complementarity,” Socio-Economic Review, vol. 3 (2005), 331-358. Howell, Chris, “Varieties of Capitalism” [review article], Comparative Politics, vol. 36 (2003). Kenworthy, Lane, “Institutional Coherence and Macroeconomic Performance,” Socio- Economic Review, vol. 4, no. 1 (2006), 69-91 Peck, Jamie & Nik Theodore, “Variegated capitalism,” Progress in Human Geography, vol. 31, no. 6 (2007), 731-772 Soskice, David, “Divergent Production Regimes,” in H. Kitschelt, et al., eds., Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), 101- 134 Streeck, Wolfgang, and Kathleen Thelen, “Introduction: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies,” in Streeck and Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 1-39. Taylor, Mark Zackary, “Empirical Evidence Against Varieties of Capitalism’s Theory of Technological ,” International Organization, vol. 58 (2004).

3. September 27: Alternative Categorizations: Is there a better approach to making comparisons? Required Readings: Oscar Molina, and Martin Rhodes, “Corporatism: the Past, Present and Future of a Concept,” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 5 (2002), 305-331 [UTL: Annual Reviews Back Volumes] Richard Whitley, Business Systems and Organizational Capabilities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 86-113 [UTL; Oxford Scholarship Online] Bruno, Amable and Stefano Palombarini, “A Neo-Realist approach to institutional change and the diversity of capitalism,” Socio-Economic Review, vol 7 (2009), 123-143 [UTL: Oxford Journals] Bob Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State (Cambridge: Polity, 2002), 11-54 [P] Additional Readings: Amable, Bruno, The Diversity of Modern Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), 74-114 5

Baumol, William, et al., Good Capitalism, Bad Capitalism (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2007). Boyer, Roger, “The Diversity and Future of Capitalisms: A Regulationist Analysis,” in G. Hodgson, et al., eds., Capitalism in Evolution (Ch eltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, 2001), pp. 100- 121. Clark, William Roberts, Capitalism, not Globalism (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005). Coates, David, “Paradigms and Explanations,” in D. Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 1-25. Crouch, Colin, Capitalist Diversity and Change (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), esp. chs. 2 & 3. Kitson, Michael, “Measuring Capitalism: Output, Growth and Economic Policy,” in D. Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 29-46. Leo Panitch and Sam Gindin, “Euro-Capitalism and American Empire,” in D. Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), 139-159 Schmidt, Vivien, The Futures of European Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002). Sellers, Jeffrey, and Anders Lidstrom, “Decentralization, Local Government, and the Welfare State,” Governance, vol. 20, no. 4 (2007), 609-632. Whitley, Richard, Divergent Capitalisms (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), 31-64 Zysman, John, Governments, Markets and Growth (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1983), especially part 1.

4. October 4: The History of Capitalist Development: Might typologies benefit from a closer reading of some ‘classics’? Required Readings: Karl Polanyi, The Great Transformation (Boston: Beacon Press, 1944), 56-85 [P] Alexander Gerschenkron, Economic Backwardness in Historical Perspective (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1962 [1952]), 5-30 [Available from course home page; also on the web] Barrington Moore, Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy (Boston: Beacon Press, 1966), 413-432 [P] Immanuel Wallerstein, “The Rise and Future Demise of the World Capitalist System: Concepts for Comparative Analysis,” Comparative Studies in Society and History, vol. 16, no. 4 (1974), 387-415 [UTL: JSTOR] Additional Readings: Fulbrook, Mary, and Theda Skocpol, “Destined Pathways: The Historical Sociology of Perry Anderson,” in Skocpol, ed., Vision and Method in Historical Sociology (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), pp. 170-210. Goldstone, Jack, “Comparative Historical Analysis and Knowledge Accumulation in the Study of Revolutions,” in J. Mahoney and D. Rueschemeyer, eds., Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 41-42, 57-90. Gourevitch, Peter, Politics in Hard Times (Ithaca: Cornell University Press: 1986). Mann, Michael The Social Sources of Power, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), 1-22, 723-739 Rueschemeyer, Dietrich and Peter Evans, “The State and Economic Transformation,” in Rueschemeyer and Evans, eds., Bringing the State Back In (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985). Shonfield, Andrew, Modern Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1965).

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5. October 11: Canada’s Political Economy: Is it liberal? What are its prospects? Required Readings: Hugh Aitken, “Defensive Expansion: The State and Economic Growth in Canada,” in W.T. Easterbrook and M. Watkins, eds., Approaches to Canadian Economic History (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1967 [1959]), 183-186, 203-221 [P] Michael Atkinson and William Coleman, The State, Business, and Industrial Change in Canada (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1989), 23-57 [P] Stephen Clarkson, “The Multi-Level State: Canada in the Semi-Periphery of Both Continentalization and ,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 8, no. 3 (2001), 501-527 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Rodney Haddow, “How Can Comparative Political Economy Explain Variable Change? Lessons for, and from, Canada,” in L. White, et al., eds., The Comparative Turn in Canadian Political Science (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2008), 221-237 [available from course home page] Additional Readings: Bradford, Neil, “The Policy Influence of Economic Ideas,” in M. Burke, et al., eds., Restructuring and Resistance (Halifax: Fernwood, 2000), pp. 50-79. Carroll, William, Corporate Power and Canadian Capitalism (Vancouver: UBC Press, 1986). Clarkson, Stephen, Uncle Sam and US (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002). Howlett, Michael and M. Ramesh, The Political Economy of Canada: An Introduction (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 1992), pp. 92-156. Laxer, Gordon, Open for Business (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1989). Tuohy, Carolyn, Policy and Politics in Canada (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992), pp. 159-193, 211-241.

6. October 18: Macroeconomic Policy (1): Wage Bargaining, Inflation and Monetary Policy: or Why don’t the Germans want to pay for the Greeks? Required Readings: John Driffell, “The Centralization of Wage Bargaining Revisited: What have we learnt?” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 44, no. 4 (2006), 731- 56 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Christopher Way, “Central Banks, Partisan Politics, and Macroeconomic Outcomes,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 33, no. 2 (2000), 196-224 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Hans Peter Gruener, Bernd Hayo and Carsten Hefelier, “Unions, Wage Setting and Monetary Policy Uncertainty,” The B.E. Journal of Macroeconomics, vol. 9, no. 1 (2009), 1-23 [UTL: Scholars Portal] David Soskice, “Macroeconomics and Varieties of Capitalism,” in B. Hanché, et al., eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 89-121 [UTL; Oxford Scholarship Online] Additional Readings: Calmfors, L., and J. Driffill, “Centralization of Wage Bargaining and Macroeconomic Performance,” Economic Policy, vol. 6 (1988), pp. 13-47. Iversen, Torben, “Decentralization, , and the Social Democratic Welfare State,” in Iverson, et al., eds., Unions, Employers, and Central Banks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 205-231 7

Franzese, Robert, Macroeconomic Policies of Developed Democracies (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 196-255. Robert Franzese and Peter Hall, “The Institutional Dimensions of Coordinating Wage- Bargaining and Monetary Policy”, in T. Iversen, et al., Unions, Employers, and Central Banks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), 173-204 Pontusson, Jonas, Inequality and Prosperity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 95-113.

7. October 25: Macroeconomic Policy (2): Globalization and Taxation Policy: Has capital mobility created a ‘race to the bottom’? Required Readings: Scott Basinger and Mark Hallenberg, “Remodeling the Competition for Capital: How Domestic Politics Erases the Race to the Bottom,” American Political Science Review, vol. 98, no. 2 (2004), 261-276 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Steffen Ganghof and Philipp Genschel, “Taxation and democracy in the EU,” Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 15, no. 1 (2008), 58-77 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Steffen Osterloh and Marc Debus, “Partisan Politics in Corporate Taxation”, European Journal of Political Economy, vol. 28 (2012), 192-207 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Rebecca Neumann, Jim Holman and James Alm, “Globalization and Tax Policy”, North American Journal of Economics and Finance, vol. 20 (2009), 193- 211 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Additional Readings: Cameron, David, “The Expansion of the Public Economy: A Contemporary Analysis,” American Political Science Review, vol. 72 (1978), pp. 1243-1261. Cusack, Thomas and Pablo Beramendi, “Taxing Work,” European Journal of Political Research, vol. 45, no. 1 (2006), 43-73. Hays, Jude “Globalization and Capital Taxation in Consensus and Majoritarian Democracies,” World Politics, vol. 56, no. 1 (2003), 79-113 Hobson, John, “Disappearing Taxes or the ‘Race to the Middle?’ Fiscal Policy in the OECD,” in L. Weiss, ed., States in the Global Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002. Kneebone, Ronald, “Making Macroeconomic Policy in an Integrated North America,” in G. Hoberg, ed., Capacity for Choice: Canada in a New North America (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2002), pp. 61-103. McKenzie, Kenneth, “A race to the bottom in provincial business taxation in Canada?” in K. Harrison, ed., Racing to the Bottom? (Vancouver: UBC Press, 2006), pp. 49-71. Rokrik, Dani, “Why do more Open Economies have Bigger Governments?” Journal of Political Economy, vol. 106 (1998), pp. 997-1032. Swank, Duane, Global Capital, Political Institutions, and Policy Change in Developed Welfare States (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002). Swank, Duane, “Tax policy in an era of internationalization: Explaining the Spread of Neoliberalism,” International Organization, vol. 60, no. 4, Fall (2006), 847-882 Swank, Duane, and Sven Steinmo, “The New Political Economy of Taxation in Advanced Capitalist Democracies,” American Journal of Political Science, vol. 46 (2002), pp. 642-655.

8. November 1: Re-Scaling the State: the Case of Europe: Does re-scaling mean liberalization (marketization)? What are the implications for the nation-state? Required Readings: 8

Bob Jessop, The Future of the Capitalist State (Cambridge: Polity, 2002), 172-215 [P] Ben Clift, “The second time as farce? The EU takeover directive, the clash of capitalisms and the hamstrung harmonization of European (and French) corporate governance,” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 47, no. 1 (2009), 55-79 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Helen Callaghan, “Beyond Methodological Nationalism: How Multilevel Governance Affects the Clash of Capitalisms,” Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 17, no. 4 (2010), 564-580 [UTL: Scholars Portal] N. Lillie & I. Greer, “Industrial Relations, Migration, and Neoliberal Politics: the Case of the European Construction Sector,” Politics and Society, vol. 35, no. 4 (2007), 551-581 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Additional Readings: Brinegar, Adam, et al., “Varieties of capitalism and political divides over European integration,” in G. Marks and M. Steenbergen, eds., European Integration and Political Conflict (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), pp. 62-92. Callaghan, Helen, and Martin Hopner, “European Integration and the Clash of Capitalisms: Political Cleavage over Takeover Liberalization,” Comparative European Politics, vol. 3 (2005), pp. 307-332. Ferrera, Maurizio, The Boundaries of Welfare: European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Fioretos, Orfeo, “The Domestic Sources of Multilateral Preferences: Varieties of Capitalism in the European Community,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), 213-244. Hanché, Bob, and Martin Rhodes, “EMU and Labour Market Institutions in Europe – the rise and fall of national pacts,” Work and Occupations, vol. 32, no. 2 (2005), 196-228 Marginson, Paul, and Keith Sisson, European Integration and Industrial Relations (Palgrave MacMillan, 2004). Menz, George, Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005) Thatcher, Martin “Reforming National Regulatory Institutions: the EU and Cross- National Variety in European Network Industries,” in B. Hanché, et al., eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007), 147-172 Pierson, Paul, “The path to European integration: a historical institutionalist analysis,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 29 (1996), pp. 123-163. Zysman, John and Andrew Schwartz, “Reunifying Europe in an Emerging World Economy,” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 36 (1998), pp. 409-429.

9. November 8: Growth and Innovation: Are these ‘endogenous’ and ‘path dependent’? If so, at what spatial level? Required Readings: Robert Gilpin, Global Political Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001), 103-147 [P] Harald Bathelt and Johannes Glückler, The Relational Economy (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 1-14, 21-44 [P] Bjorn Asheim and Lars Coenen, “Contextualising Regional Innovation Systems in a Globalising Learning Economy,” Journal of Technology Transfer, vol. 31, no. 1 (2006), 163-73 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Robert Boyer, “New growth regimes, but still institutional diversity,” Socio-Economic Review, vol. 2, no. 1 (2004), 1-32 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Additional Readings: 9

Amable, Bruno, “Institutional Complementarity and Diversity of Social Systems of Innovation and Production,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 7 (2000). Best, Michael, The New Competition (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1990). Cook, Philip, “Introduction,” in H. Braczyk, et al., eds., Regional Innovation Systems (London: UCL Press, 1998), pp. 2-25. Freeman, Chris “The National System of Innovation in Historical Perspective,” in D. Archibugi and J. Michie, eds., Technology, Globalization and Economic Performance (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1997), pp. 24-49. Ibata-Arens, Kathryn, “Review Article: the Comparative Political Economy of Innovation,” Review of International Political Economy, vol. 10 (2003), pp. 147-165. Krugman, Paul, Geography and Trade, 1990 Niosi, Jorge, Canada’s National System of Innovation (Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2000), pp. 3-30. Michael Porter, “Locations, clusters, and company strategy,” in G. Clark, et al., eds., The Oxford Handbook of Economic Geography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), 253-274 Storper, Michael, The Regional World (New York: Guilford, 1997). Storper, Michael and Allen Scott, “The Wealth of Regions,” Futures, vol. 27 (1995), pp. 505-526. Zysman, John, “Rooted Trajectories of Growth,” Industrial and Corporate Change, vol. 3 (1994), pp. 243-283.

10. November 15: Labour Unions: What are their Prospects? Why? Required Readings: Michael Wallerstein and Bruce Western, “Unions in Decline? What Has Changed and Why,” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 3 (2000), 355-377 [UTL: Annual Reviews Back Volumes] James Piazza, “Globalizing Quiescence: Globalization, Union Density and Strikes in 15 Industrialized Countries,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 26, no. 2 (2005), 289-314 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Bernd Brandi and Franz Traxler, “Labour Conflicts: A Cross-National Analysis of Economic and Institutional Determinants, 1971-2002,” European Sociological Review, vol. 26, no. 5 (2010), 519-540 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Cheol-Sung Lee, “International migration, deindustrialization and union decline in 16 affluent OECD countries, 1962-1997,” Social Forces, vol. 84, no.1 (2005), 71-88 [UTL: Pro Quest 5000] Additional Readings: Austen-Smith, David, et al., Selected Works of Michael Wallerstein, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008) Brady, David, “Institutional, Economic, or Solidaristic? Assessing Explanations for Unionization Across Affluent Democracies,” Work and Occupations, vol. 34, no. 1 (2007), 67-101 Dumont, Michael, et al., “Does Internationalization Affect Union Bargaining Power? An Empirical Study for Five EU Countries,” Oxford Economic Papers, vol. 58 (2006), 77-102. Golden, Miriam and John Londregan, “Centralization of bargaining and wage inequality: a correction of Wallerstein,” AJPS, vol. 50, no. 1 (2006), 208-213. Heyes, Jason, “Training, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining in Western Europe,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 28, no. 2 (2007), 239-258. Hirsch, Barry, “What do Unions do for Economic Performance?” Journal of Labour Research, vol. 25, no. 3 (2004), 415-455. Jenkins, J. Craig, et al., “Class forces, political institutions, and state intervention: subnational economic development policy in the United States, 1971-1990,” American Journal of Sociology, vol. 111, no. 4 (2006), 1122-80. Mosher, James, “US Wage Inequality, Technological Change, and the Decline of Union Power,” Politics and Society, vol. 35, no. 2 (2007), 225-264. 10

Mosley, Layna, “Racing to the Bottom or Climbing to the Top? Economic Globalization and Collective Labour Rights,” Comparative Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 8 (2007), 923-948. Rhodes, M., “The Political Economy of Social Pacts: ‘Competitive Corporatism’ and European Welfare Reform”, in P. Pierson (ed.), The New Politics of the Welfare State (New York, Oxford University Press, 2001). Scruggs, Lyle and Peter Lange, “Where Have all the Members Gone? Globalization, Institutions and Union Density,” Journal of Politics, vol. 64, no. 1 (2002), 126-153. Silver, Beverly, Forces of Labour (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), pp. 1-40, 168-180. Thelen, Kathleen, “Varieties of Labour Politics in the Developed Democracies,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 71-103.

11. November 22: Class Voting: How Much ‘dealignment’ has occurred? Why? Required Readings: Terry Nichols Clark and Seymour Martin Lipset, “Are Social Classes Dying?” International Sociology, vol. 6, no. 4 (1991), 397-410 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Clem Brooks, Paul Nieuwbeerta, and Jeff Manza, “Cleavage-based Voting Behaviour in Cross-Sectional Perspective: Evidence from Six Postwar Democracies,” Social Science Research, vol. 35, no. 1 (2006), 88-128 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Jeroen van der Waal, Peter Achtenberg and Dick Houtman, “Class is Not Dead, It Has Been Buried Alive: Class Voting and Cultural Voting in Postwar Western Societies (1956-1980),” Politics and Society, vol. 35, no. 3 (2007), 403- 426 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Daniel Oesch, “The Changing Shape of Class Voting: An Individual-level Analysis of Party Support in Britain, Germany & Switzerland,” European Societies, vol. 10, no. 3 (2008), 329-355 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Additional Readings: Peter Achterberg, “Class Voting in the New Political Culture: Economic, Cultural and Environmental Voting in 20 Western Countries,” International Sociology, vol. 21, no. 2 (2006), 237-261. Alford, Robert, Party and Society (London: Rand McNally, 1964). Evans, Geoffrey, ed., The End of Class Politics? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999). Knutsen, Oddbjorn, Class Voting in Western Europe (Oxford: Lexington, 2006). Lipset, Seymour Martin and Stein Rokkan, “Cleavage Structure, Party Systems and Voter Alignments,” in Lipset and Rokkan, eds., Party Systems and Voter Alignments (New York: The Free Press, 1967). Manza, Jeff, et al., “Class Voting in Capitalist Democracies Since World War II,” Annual Review of Sociology, vol. 21 (1995), 137-162. Nieuwbeerta, Paul and Wout Ultee, “Class Voting in Western Industrialized Countries, 1945-1990: Systematizing and Testing Explanations,” European Journal of Political Science, vol. 35 (1999), 123-160.+

12. November 29: Electoral Systems: Why are proportional systems introduced? Required Readings: Marcus Kreuzer, “Historical Knowledge and Quantitative Analysis: the Case of the Origins of Proportional Representation,” American Political Science Review (APSR), vol. 104, no. 2 (2010), 369-39 [UTL: Scholars Portal] 11

Thomas Cusack and Torben Iversen and David Soskice, “Coevolution of Capitalism and Political Representation: The Choice of Electoral Systems,” APSR, vol. 104, no. 2 (2010), 393-403 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Carles Boix, “Electoral Markets, Party Strategies, and Proportional Representation,” APSR, vol. 104, no. 2 (2010), 404-413 [UTL: Scholars Portal] Ernesto Calvo, “The Competitive Road to Proportional Representation,” World Politics, vol. 61, no. 2 (2009), 254-295 [UTL: Pro Quest 5000] Additional Readings: Boix, Carles, “Setting the Rules of the Game: The Choice of Electoral Systems in Advanced Democracies”, American Political Science Review, vol. 93, no. 1 (1999), 609-624 Birchfield, Vicky & Markus Crepaz, “The Impact of Constitutional Structures and Collective and Competitive Veto Points on Income Inequality in Industrialized Democracies,” European Journal of Political Research, vol. 34 (1998), 175-206 Cusack, Thomas, Torben Iversen and David Soskice, “Economic Integration and the Origins of Electoral Systems,” American Political Science Review, vol. 101, no. 3 (2007), 373-391 Manow, Philip “Electoral rules, class coalitions and welfare state regimes,” Socio- Economic Review, vol. 7, no. 1 (2009), 101-121 Martin, Cathie Jo and Duane Swank, “The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems, and State Structure in the Age of Innocence,” American Political Science Review, vol. 102, no. 2 (2008), 181-98

Additional themes (that we won’t get to in this course):

[A] Coordinative Political Economies: A Failed Option? Are these nations now pursuing similar or distinctive paths? Core Readings: Harcourt, M, & G. Wood, “The importance of employment protection for skill development in coordinated market economies,” European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 13, no.2 (2007), 141-159. Hartwig, Jochen, “On spurious differences in growth performance and on the misuse of National Accounts data for governance purposes,” RIPE, vol. 13, no. 4 (2006), 535-558. Sapir, Andre, “Globalization and the Reform of European Social Models,” Jornal of Common Market Studies, vol. 44, no. 3 (2006), pp. 369-390. Thelen, Kathleen, and Ikuo Kume, “Coordination as a Political Problem in Coordinated Market Economies,” Governance, vol. 19 (2006), 11-42. Additional Readings: Carney, Richard, “Varieties of Capitalism in France: Interests, Institutions, and Finance,” French Politics, vol. 4, no. 1 (2006), 1-30. Clift, Ben, “The French Model of Capitalism: Still Exceptional?” in J. Perraton and Clift, eds., Where are National Capitalisms Now? (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), pp. 91-110. Deeg, Richard, “Change from Within: German and Italian Finance in the 1990s,” in W. Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 169- 202. Dore, Robert. Stock Market Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000). Hanché, Bob, “Revisiting the French Model,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 307-334. Iversen, Torben and Jonas Pontussen, “Comparative Political Economy: A Northern European Perspective,” in Iversen, et al., ed., Unions, Employers and Central Banks (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2000), pp. 1-37. Kinderman, Daniel, “Pressure from without, Subversion from within: The Two-Pronged German Employer Offensive” Comparative European Politics, vol. 3, no. 4 (2005), 432-463. 12

Loriaux, Michael, “France: A New Capitalism of Voice?” in L. Weiss, ed. States in the Global Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002), pp. 101-120. Kitschelt, Herbert and Wolfgang Streeck, “From Stability to Stagnation: Germany at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century,” in Kitschelt and Streeck, eds., Germany: Beyond the Stable State (London: Frank Cass and Co., 2003). Royo, Sebastián, “Varieties of Capitalism in Spain: Business and the Politics of Coordination,” European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 13, no. 1 (2007), pp. 47-65. Silvia, Stephen and Wolfgang Schroeder, “Why are German Employers Associations Declining? Arguments and Evidence,” CPS, vol. 40, no. 12 (2007), 1433-1459. Streeck, Wolfgang, and Kozo Yamamura, “Introduction: Convergence or Diversity? Stability and Change in German and Japanese Capitalism,” in Streeck and Yamamura, eds., The End of Diversity? (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2003), pp. 1-50. Vogel, Steven, “Routine Adjustment and Bounded Innovation: The Changing Political Economy of Japan,” in W. Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 145-168.

[B] Liberal Political Economies: A Template for the 21st Century? Does the Model Fit the US? Core Readings: Amable, Bruno, The Diversity of Modern Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 197-224. Block, Fred, “Swimming Against the Current: The Rise of a Hidden Developmental State in the United States,” Politics and Society, vol. 36, no. 2 (2008), 169-206. Lindberg, Leon, and John L. Campbell, “The State and the Organization of Economic Activity,” in J. Campbell, Governance of the American Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 356-395. Saxenian, Annalee, “The Origins and Dynamics of Production Networks in Silicon Valley,” in M. Kenney, ed., Understanding Silicon Valley (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000), pp. 141-164. Additional Readings: Berk, Gerald, “Varieties in Capitalism, Varieties of Association: Collaborative Learning in American Industry, 1900 to 1925,” Politics and Society, vol. 33 (2005), pp. 46-87. Block, Fred, “Understanding the Diverging Trajectories of the United States and Western Europe: a Neo-Polanyian Analysis,” Politics and Society, vol. 35, no. 1 (2007), 3-33. Brenner, Robert, “The Capitalist Economy, 1945-2000,” in D. Coates, ed., Varieties of Capitalism, Varieties of Approaches (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2005), pp. 211-241. Coates, David, “Models of Capitalism in the New World Order: The UK Case,” Political Studies, vol. 47 (1999), pp. 643-660. Gamble, Andrew, “British National Capitalism since the War,” in J. Perraton and B. Clift, eds., Where are National Capitalisms Now? (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), pp. 33-49. Hollingsworth, J. Rogers, “The Institutional Embeddedness of American Capitalism,” in C. Crouch and W. Streeck, Political Economy of Modern Capitalism (London: Sage, 1997), pp. 133-147. Hollingsworth, J. Rogers, “The Logic of Coordinating American Manufacturing Sectors,” in J. Campbell, Governance of the American Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 35-73. King, Desmond, and Stewart Wood, “The Political Economy of Neoliberalism,” in H. Kitschelt, et al., eds., Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp. 371-397. Lazonick, William and Mary O’Sullivan, “Finance and Industrial Development. Part 1: The United States and the United Kingdom,” Finance History Review, vol. 4 (1997), pp. 7-29 Lindberg, Leon and John L. Campbell, “The State and the Organization of Economic Activity,” in J. Campbell, Governance of the American Economy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), pp. 356-395. 13

Thompson, Grahame, “The US Economy in the 1990s,” in J. Perraton and B. Clift, eds., Where are National Capitalisms Now? (Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan, 2004), pp. 12-32. Todd, Emmanuel, Après L’Empire (Paris: Gallimard, 2002), pp. 75-96.

[C] Labour Markets and Varieties of Labour Market Policy: When does capitalism produce high skills? When does regulation hurt? Core Readings: Baccaro, Lucio and Diego Rei, “Institutional Determinants of Unemployment in OECD Countries: Does the Deregulation View Hold Water?” IO, vol. 61, Summer (2007), 527-69. Bradley, David and John Stephens, “Employment Performance in OECD Countries: A Test of Neoliberal and Institutionalist hypotheses,” CPS, vol. 40, no. 12 (2007), 1486-1510. Estevez-Abe, Margarita, et al., “Social Protection and the Formation of Skills,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 145- 183. Edlund, Jonas, and Anne Grönlund, “Protection of Mutual Interests? Employment Protection and Skill Formation in Different Labour Market Regimes,” European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 14, no. 3, (2008), 245-264. Additional Readings: Armingeon, Klaus, “Active labour market policy, international organizations and domestic politics,” Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14, no. 6 (2007), 905-932. Crouch, Colin, Are Skills the Answer? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 219- 250. Esping-Andersen, Gosta, “Who is harmed by labour market regulation?” in Esping- Andersen and M. Regini, eds., Why Deregulate Labour Markets? (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), pp. 66-93. Lauder, Hugh, et al., “Globalisation, Skill Formation and the Varieties of Capitalism Approach,” New Political Economy, vol.13, no.1 (2008) Mares, Isabel, Taxation, Wage Bargaining and Unemployment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006), chap. 6. Martin, Cathie Jo and Duane Swank, “Does the Organization of Capital Matter? Employers and Active Labour Market Policy at the National and Firm Levels,” American Political Science Review, vol. 98 (2004). Pontusson, Jonas, Inequality and Prosperity (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2005), pp. 114-141. Rueda, David, “Social Democracy and Active Labour-Market Policies: Insiders, Outsiders and the Politics of Employment Promotion,” BJPS, vol. 36 (2006), pp. 385-406.