Political Control Of The Economy

Author : Edward R. Tufte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691021805

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Political Control of the Economy by Edward R. Tufte Pdf

Speculations about the effects of politics on economic life have a long and vital tradition, but few efforts have been made to determine the precise relationship between them. Edward Tufte, a political scientist who covered the 1976 Presidential election for Newsweek, seeks to do just that. His sharp analyses and astute observations lead to an eye-opening view of the impact of political life on the national economy of America and other capitalist democracies. The analysis demonstrates how politicians, political parties, and voters decide who gets what, when, and how in the economic arena. A nation's politics, it is argued, shape the most important aspects of economic life--inflation, unemployment, income redistribution, the growth of government, and the extent of central economic control. Both statistical data and case studies (based on interviews and Presidential documents) are brought to bear on four topics. They are: 1) the political manipulation of the economy in election years, 2) the new international electoral-economic cycle, 3) the decisive role of political leaders and parties in shaping macroeconomic outcomes, and 4) the response of the electorate to changing economic conditions. Finally, the book clarifies a central question in political economy: How can national economic policy be conducted in both a democratic and a competent fashion?

Author : Paul Whiteley
Publisher : London ; Beverly Hills : Sage Publications
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015013432045

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Political Control of the Macroeconomy by Paul Whiteley Pdf

Paul Whiteley integrates two fields of study which have traditionally remained separate - public policy analysis and macroeconomic theory. He applies theoretical models from macroeconomics to key issues in public policy analysis. He measures the effects of technological change, the nature of economic growth, and the extent to which government can stimulate productivity and manipulate the economy for electoral purposes. Two dimensions, essential in understanding the political determinants of economic policy, are highlighted: the short- and long-term effects of policies; and the relationship between policy instruments, such as public expenditure, and policy targets, such as full employment. Using cross-sectional and time-series data, Paul Whiteley tests and develops models for assessing policies and their outcomes. His conclusions about government mechanisms for exerting influence on the economy have important implications for public policy and macroeconomic analyses.

Author : C. Tremewan
Publisher : Springer
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349246243

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The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore by C. Tremewan Pdf

`The thesis presented here will not only change the way in which we understand contemporary Singaporean society and the relationship between the state and its citizens, but will also provoke a debate about the social costs of economic development in other parts of the world, and the future security of the island republic - increasingly a Chinese enclave in a Malay sea - in the twenty-first century.' - Peter Carey, Trinity College, Oxford This study examines the development of Singapore's complex system of social regulation in relation to the phases of its economic strategy and political transition. It focuses on the way social control works through public housing and welfare, education, parliamentary politics and the law. It draws out the implications of such comprehensive control for political conflict. Popular explanations for Singapore's success and its status as a model for other developing countries are brought into question.

Author : Michael J. Trebilcock
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : 9780190456948

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Dealing with Losers by Michael J. Trebilcock Pdf

Winner of the Donner Prize for the best book on public policy by a Canadian in 2014.Whenever governments change policies - tax, expenditure, or regulatory policies, among others - there will typically be losers: people or groups who relied upon and invested in physical, financial, or human capital predicated on, or even deliberately induced by the pre-reform set of policies. Theissue of whether and when to mitigate the costs associated with policy changes, either through explicit government compensation, grandfathering, phased or postponed implementation, is ubiquitous across the policy landscape. Much of the existing literature covers government takings, yet compensationfor expropriation comprises merely a tiny part of the universe of such strategies.Dealing with Losers: The Political Economy of Policy Transitions explores both normative and political rationales for transition cost mitigation strategies and explains which strategies might create an aggregate, overall enhancement in societal welfare beyond mere compensation. Professor Michael J.Trebilcock highlights the political rationales for mitigating such costs and the ability of potential losers to mobilize and obstruct socially beneficial changes in the absence of well-crafted transition cost mitigation strategies. This book explores the political economy of transition costmitigation strategies in a wide variety of policy contexts including public pensions, U.S. home mortgage interest deductions, immigration, trade liberalization, agricultural supply management, and climate change, providing tested examples and realistic strategies for genuine policy reform.

Author : James E. Meade
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781136258664

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The Controlled Economy (Routledge Revivals) by James E. Meade Pdf

First published in 1971 this volume applies the tools of static and of dynamic analysis (outlined in The Stationary Economy and The Growing Economy) to the control of a dynamic economy. This involves a discussion of subjects such as the theory of indicative planning, and the planning by the government of its monetary, fiscal, and incomes policies for the purposes of the short-run stabilization of the economy and of ensuring the best long-run use of the community’s resources. Special emphasis is laid on the planning of such policies in conditions in which many future events remain inevitably uncertain. This book considers these issues in relation to a competitive, free-enterprise economy; and little or no reference is made to problems of monopoly or of distinctions between social and private costs and benefits, due to indivisibilities and externalities in economic life.

Author : Gerald Epstein
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 576 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781788978415

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The Political Economy of Central Banking by Gerald Epstein Pdf

Central banks are among the most powerful government economic institutions in the world. This volume explores the economic and political contours of the struggle for influence over the policies of central banks such as the Federal Reserve, and the implications of this struggle for economic performance and the distribution of wealth and power in society.

Author : Roselyn Hsueh
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-10-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780801462856

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China's Regulatory State by Roselyn Hsueh Pdf

Today's China is governed by a new economic model that marks a radical break from the Mao and Deng eras; it departs fundamentally from both the East Asian developmental state and its own Communist past. It has not, however, adopted a liberal economic model. China has retained elements of statist control even though it has liberalized foreign direct investment more than any other developing country in recent years. This mode of global economic integration reveals much about China’s state capacity and development strategy, which is based on retaining government control over critical sectors while meeting commitments made to the World Trade Organization. In China's Regulatory State, Roselyn Hsueh demonstrates that China only appears to be a more liberal state; even as it introduces competition and devolves economic decisionmaking, the state has selectively imposed new regulations at the sectoral level, asserting and even tightening control over industry and market development, to achieve state goals. By investigating in depth how China implemented its economic policies between 1978 and 2010, Hsueh gives the most complete picture yet of China's regulatory state, particularly as it has shaped the telecommunications and textiles industries. Hsueh contends that a logic of strategic value explains how the state, with its different levels of authority and maze of bureaucracies, interacts with new economic stakeholders to enhance its control in certain economic sectors while relinquishing control in others. Sectoral characteristics determine policy specifics although the organization of institutions and boom-bust cycles influence how the state reformulates old rules and creates new ones to maximize benefits and minimize costs after an initial phase of liberalization. This pathbreaking analysis of state goals, government-business relations, and methods of governance across industries in China also considers Japan’s, South Korea’s, and Taiwan’s manifestly different approaches to globalization.

Author : Lea Sitkin
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-08
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317308348

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Re-thinking the Political Economy of Immigration Control by Lea Sitkin Pdf

This book offers a systematic exploration of the changing politics around immigration and the impact of resultant policy regimes on immigrant communities. It does so across a uniquely wide range of policy areas: immigration admissions, citizenship, internal immigration controls, labour market regulation, the welfare state and the criminal justice system. Challenging the current state of theoretical literature on the ‘criminalisation’ or ‘marginalisation’ of immigrants, this book examines the ways in which immigrants are treated differently in different national contexts, as well as the institutional factors driving this variation. To this end, it offers data on overall trends across 20 high-income countries, as well as more detailed case studies on the UK, Australia, the USA, Germany, Italy and Sweden. At the same time, it charts an emerging common regime of exploitation, which threatens the depiction of some countries as more inclusionary than others. The politicisation of immigration has intensified the challenge for policy-makers, who today must respond to populist calls for restrictive immigration policy whilst simultaneously heeding business groups’ calls for cheap labour and respecting legal obligations that require more liberal and welcoming policy regimes. The resultant policy regimes often have counterproductive effects, in many cases marginalising immigrant communities and contributing to the growth of underground and criminal economies. Finally, developments on the horizon, driven by technological progress, threaten to intensify distributional challenges. While these will make the politics around immigration even more fraught in coming decades, the real issue is not immigration but the loss of good jobs, which will have serious implications across all Western countries. This book will appeal to scholars and students of criminology, social policy, political economy, political sociology, the sociology of immigration and race, and migration studies.

Author : John Neville Keynes
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1891
Category : Economics
ISBN : HARVARD:32044081876187

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The Scope and Method of Political Economy by John Neville Keynes Pdf

Author : Peter Alexis Gourevitch,James Shinn
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0691122911

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Political Power and Corporate Control by Peter Alexis Gourevitch,James Shinn Pdf

Why does corporate governance--front page news with the collapse of Enron, WorldCom, and Parmalat--vary so dramatically around the world? This book explains how politics shapes corporate governance--how managers, shareholders, and workers jockey for advantage in setting the rules by which companies are run, and for whom they are run. It combines a clear theoretical model on this political interaction, with statistical evidence from thirty-nine countries of Europe, Asia, Africa, and North and South America and detailed narratives of country cases. This book differs sharply from most treatments by explaining differences in minority shareholder protections and ownership concentration among countries in terms of the interaction of economic preferences and political institutions. It explores in particular the crucial role of pension plans and financial intermediaries in shaping political preferences for different rules of corporate governance. The countries examined sort into two distinct groups: diffuse shareholding by external investors who pick a board that monitors the managers, and concentrated blockholding by insiders who monitor managers directly. Examining the political coalitions that form among or across management, owners, and workers, the authors find that certain coalitions encourage policies that promote diffuse shareholding, while other coalitions yield blockholding-oriented policies. Political institutions influence the probability of one coalition defeating another.

Author : Chris Tremewan
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0312121385

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The Political Economy of Social Control in Singapore by Chris Tremewan Pdf

This book shows that there is a complex relationship between economic strategy, social control and political conflict in Singapore.

Author : Daniel C. Mattingly
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-12-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108485937

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The Art of Political Control in China by Daniel C. Mattingly Pdf

Civil society groups can strengthen an autocratic state's coercive capacity, helping to suppress dissent and implement far-reaching policies.

Author : James Edward Meade
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 381 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Economic policy
ISBN : OCLC:214513

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The Controlled Economy by James Edward Meade Pdf

Author : Edward R. Tufte
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-06
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780691219417

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Political Control of the Economy by Edward R. Tufte Pdf

Speculations about the effects of politics on economic life have a long and vital tradition, but few efforts have been made to determine the precise relationship between them. Edward Tufte, a political scientist who covered the 1976 Presidential election for Newsweek, seeks to do just that. His sharp analyses and astute observations lead to an eye-opening view of the impact of political life on the national economy of America and other capitalist democracies. The analysis demonstrates how politicians, political parties, and voters decide who gets what, when, and how in the economic arena. A nation's politics, it is argued, shape the most important aspects of economic life--inflation, unemployment, income redistribution, the growth of government, and the extent of central economic control. Both statistical data and case studies (based on interviews and Presidential documents) are brought to bear on four topics. They are: 1) the political manipulation of the economy in election years, 2) the new international electoral-economic cycle, 3) the decisive role of political leaders and parties in shaping macroeconomic outcomes, and 4) the response of the electorate to changing economic conditions. Finally, the book clarifies a central question in political economy: How can national economic policy be conducted in both a democratic and a competent fashion?

Author : Sisay Asefa,Wei-Chiao Huang
Publisher : W.E. Upjohn Institute
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-06-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780880994989

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The Political Economy of Good Governance by Sisay Asefa,Wei-Chiao Huang Pdf

A notable group of social scientists explore the political economy of good governance and how it relates to performance management, the influence of political parties, education and health issues in developing countries, the economic performance of transition economies, and the effects of climate on poverty.