Political Economy In Federal States

Author : Joel W. Johnson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2018-12-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351034609

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Political Economy of the United States by Joel W. Johnson Pdf

How have the policies of recent administrations shaped today’s economy? To what extent has federal policy contributed to growth in income inequality? Why have the parties become so polarized and how has polarization influenced economic policy? This book provides an introduction to the contemporary political economy of the United States. It examines the politics of economic policymaking, the influence of federal policies and programs on the economy, and the co-evolution of politics and the economy over the past five decades. Along the way, it explains the causes and consequences of many contemporary phenomena, such as the government’s deficits and debt and the ideological polarization of the parties. The book is divided into two parts. The first half explains how America’s political economy "works." It explains what the federal government does, why it does what it does, and how its policies influence the economy. The second half explains "how we got here" with a review of major political and economic developments since the 1970s, all the way up to the early years of the Trump Administration. This weaving together of theory and history provides both the tools and the context so that readers can properly understand the nation’s current-day politics and policy debates.

Author : Paul Brace
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1994-08
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0801849713

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State Government and Economic Performance by Paul Brace Pdf

Beginning in the Reagan administration, shifting federal economic policies have forced states to bear an increasing share of the burden of their economic development. Some states have weathered the transition well; others have not. In State Government and Economic Performance, Paul Brace combines political and economic analysis to examine the changing relationship between state and federal governments, and to identify those factors which have allowed certain states to manage change effectively.

Author : M. Govinda Rao,Nirvikar Singh
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-12-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199087853

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The Political Economy of Federalism in India by M. Govinda Rao,Nirvikar Singh Pdf

This is a comprehensive work on India's fiscal federalism. The book surveys and analyses the evolution of fiscal federalism from the angle of political economy and brings to bear analytical skills of a very high order to assess and relate the political and administrative dimensions of India's federal system to fiscal federal issues. The authors present a synthesized framework, combining both economic and political elements in a political economy prism such as the Cente–State relations with not only the political perspectives but also the economic ones with the belief that only such a framework can provide a useful guide to implementable reform of policies.

Author : Dietmar Braun,Christian Ruiz-Palmero,Johanna Schnabel
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781317246336

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Consolidation Policies in Federal States by Dietmar Braun,Christian Ruiz-Palmero,Johanna Schnabel Pdf

The Global Financial Crisis has led to a renewed attention for the management of public debt and deficits of advanced and developing industrial states. To successfully deal with such problems of public finances raises particular concerns in federal states where fiscal competencies are split between two levels of government. This book offers comparative in-depth knowledge of political struggles related to fiscal consolidation policies in eleven federal states since the 1990s, including the Global Financial Crisis and its aftermath. It identifies conditions that lead to "robust" solutions that can both commit federal actors to prudent fiscal policy-making and avoid conflicts between federal actors that cause federal instability. This text will be of key interest to scholars and students of political economy and comparative politics in general and comparative federalism and EU Politics in particular.

Author : Edward D. Berkowitz,Kim Mcquaid
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1988-08-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UOM:39015021480051

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Creating the Welfare State by Edward D. Berkowitz,Kim Mcquaid Pdf

Creating the Welfare State investigates how private business and public bureaucracy worked together to create the structure of much of the modern welfare state in America. Covering the period from the 1980s to the present, this important volume employs interdisciplinary techniques to demonstrate how politics, economics, law, and social theory merged over the course of a century of policy formulation and implementation. The authors also draw upon previously unconsulted sources from government warehouses and archives to analyze the operation of early federal social welfare programs such as vocational rehabilitation. Their discussions range from those early programs to modern ones such as cost of living pay adjustments and social security disability benefits. This emphasis on the notion of the continuing development of welfare programs is a significant factor in the welfare state controversies--a factor often ignored by other historians and writers.

Author : George M. Hall
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2014-07-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781496921130

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Dollars, Polity and Law by George M. Hall Pdf

Revamping the Political Economy after the Impending Collapse No country can borrow indefinitely without fatal consequences. But that is just what the United States is doing; adding nearly a trillion dollars annually to its already massive debt, as overseen by a Congress with an approval rating in the 10-to-14 percent range. In the process, the mind-set that spawned the sub-prime mortgage now renders the entire economy sub-prime. This book explains why and how resolution might obtain after the collapse. The essence is termed polity economics, given that the bifurcated concepts of capitalism and socialism have lost their utility yet persist as incompatible political touchstones. This perspective includes some twenty explicit elements, all addressed at length. Yet by itself, it too will also eventually fail. For it is also essential to restate the Constitution so that it becomes efficaciously aligned with the evolved culture and ethic of the United States, especially to instill stability within the fiscal operations that have come to dominate the country. The ABC's of that admittedly profound document simply do not address the D-through-Z's that have devolved over more than two centuries. Excerpts On fiscal carrying capacity. Isn't the United States simply too big to fail? History laughs. Every empire and nation has been laid waste when it continuously reached for more than it could grasp, which leads to the primary argument in this book: --Every economy has a substantive need for just so much money and fungible assets: a carrying capacity, so to speak. When that capacity is exceeded, money becomes a commodity in its own right. Given propensities to accumulate money and inflate values over a bread-and-butter baseline, the econ-omy degenerates in three successive tiers. The first tier harbors the inevitable dis-tensions of economics, such as periodic business cycles and recessions. Yet money remains a tool, not the essence. But if recessions are avoided, money begins to compete with the substantive aspects of an economy. This is the second tier, where leveraged val-ues inherently devolve unstable, followed eventually by a depression. Yet even de-pres-sion can be staved off by massive bailouts and unsustainable debt. This is the third tier. Money takes pri-or-ity over substance, until, that is, the economy collapses. On political versus supposed economic rights. There may be free speech; there is no free lunch."

Author : Walter W. Heller
Publisher : Cambridge : Harvard University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Fiscal policy
ISBN : UCAL:B3884205

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New Dimensions of Political Economy by Walter W. Heller Pdf

Walter W. Heller was Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers throughout President Kennedy's Administration and during the first year of President Johnson's. Here, in a book of immediate importance and great vision, he examines the profound and rapid changes that are taking place during the 1960's in American economic policy. In this decade economics has come of age, and the Keynesian revolution has been completed. The economic health and stability of the nation are now among the President's major concerns. The need to formulate policy in this area has thrust the political economist into a new and leading role as Presidential adviser, and Mr. Heller is in a unique position to offer an inside account of these developments. In his first book since leaving Washington to return to the University of Minnesota, he describes the emergence of Presidents Kennedy and Johnson as practicing economists, evaluates their economic policies, and sketches the patterns that are being established for the future. He tells how the grip of economic myths and false fears has been loosened in the government, with the result that economic policy is focused on sustaining prosperity without inflation, on speeding economic growth, and on realizing the fruits of true fiscal abundance. Finally, Mr. Heller for the first time discusses in detail his own plan for revenue sharing, a new method of enlarging the flow of Federal funds to the states. The plan offers the exciting promise of a stronger fiscal base for our federalism, not only by expanding the present system of Federal grants, but also--when the demands of Vietnam relent--by developing new forms of fiscal support for state and local government. Parts of this book were delivered by Mr. Keller as the Godkin Lectures at Harvard University in March 1966.

Author : United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1983
Category : Constitutional law
ISBN : LOC:00170923522

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Political Economy and Constitutional Reform: Appendix by United States. Congress. Joint Economic Committee Pdf

Author : Friedrich List
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781596059535

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National System of Political Economy - Volume 2: The Theory by Friedrich List Pdf

One of the most prominent economic philosophers of the 19th century, on a par with-but espousing quite different thinking than-Karl Marx and Adam Smith explores, in the three-volume National System of Political Economy, a reasoned doctrine of national and pan-national management of trade, a global collaboration between government and business. In Volume 2, he delineates his theory of supportive interconnectedness, discussing everything from the value of the individual's ability to produce wealth to the edge established businesses have over new ones. A close reading of this 1841 classic is an absolute necessity for anyone who hopes to understand world economic history of the last 150 years. German economist and journalist FRIEDRICH LIST (1789-1846) served as professor of administration and politics at the University of T bingen, but was later jailed and later exiled to America for his political views. His is also the author of Outlines of American Political Economy (1827).

Author : Marc Allen Eisner
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105009792891

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The State in the American Political Economy by Marc Allen Eisner Pdf

This text presents a broad overview of the American political economy, focusing on changing patterns of state-economy relations in the course of the past century.

Author : Jacob S. Hacker,Alexander Hertel-Fernandez,Paul Pierson,Kathleen Thelen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2021-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9781316516362

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The American Political Economy by Jacob S. Hacker,Alexander Hertel-Fernandez,Paul Pierson,Kathleen Thelen Pdf

Drawing together leading scholars, the book provides a revealing new map of the US political economy in cross-national perspective.

Author : Michael Keating,John Loughlin
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Regional economics
ISBN : 9780714646589

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The Political Economy of Regionalism by Michael Keating,John Loughlin Pdf

This book combines theoretical essays with probing case studies to examine the effects of economic and political restructuring in Europe and North America on regions on these two continents.

Author : Kurt Mettenheim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781000449679

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Political Economy of Financialization in the United States by Kurt Mettenheim Pdf

Combining balance sheet analysis with historical institutional analysis, this book traces the evolution of social sector financial balance sheets in the US from 1960 to 2018. This innovative historical-institutional approach, ranging from the micro level of households to the macro level of the federal government, reveals that the displacement of households by banks has been a long-term process. This gradual compounding of financialization is at odds with widely accepted views about financialization, contemporary banking theory, financial intermediation theory, and post-Keynesian and endogenous money approaches. The book returns to time-tested traditional principles of banking and taps unexpected affinities about market failures in transaction cost economics, financial intermediation theory, and core ideas in classic modern political and social economy about economic moralities and social reactions of self-defense against unfettered markets. This book provides an alternative explanation for the rise of finance and new ways to think about averting financialization and its devastating consequences. This book marks a significant contribution to the literature on financialization, social economics, banking, and the American political economy.

Author : Norman Schofield,Gonzalo Caballero
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2011-06-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783642195198

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Political Economy of Institutions, Democracy and Voting by Norman Schofield,Gonzalo Caballero Pdf

This book presents the latest research in the field of Political Economy, dealing with the integration of economics and politics and the way institutions affect social decisions. The authors are eminent scholars from the U.S., Canada, Britain, Spain, Italy, Mexico and the Philippines. Many of them have been influenced by Nobel laureate Douglass North, who pioneered the new institutional social sciences, or by William H. Riker who contributed to the field of positive political theory. The book focuses on topics such as: case studies in institutional analysis; research on war and the formation of states; the analysis of corruption; new techniques for analyzing elections, involving game theory and empirical methods; comparing elections under plurality and proportional rule, and in developed and new democracies.

Author : Claudia Goldin,Gary D. Libecap
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2008-04-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226301341

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The Regulated Economy by Claudia Goldin,Gary D. Libecap Pdf

How has the United States government grown? What political and economic factors have given rise to its regulation of the economy? These eight case studies explore the late-nineteenth- and early twentieth-century origins of government intervention in the United States economy, focusing on the political influence of special interest groups in the development of economic regulation. The Regulated Economy examines how constituent groups emerged and demanded government action to solve perceived economic problems, such as exorbitant railroad and utility rates, bank failure, falling agricultural prices, the immigration of low-skilled workers, workplace injury, and the financing of government. The contributors look at how preexisting policies, institutions, and market structures shaped regulatory activity; the origins of regulatory movements at the state and local levels; the effects of consensus-building on the timing and content of legislation; and how well government policies reflect constituency interests. A wide-ranging historical view of the way interest group demands and political bargaining have influenced the growth of economic regulation in the United States, this book is important reading for economists, political scientists, and public policy experts.