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In this Element, we investigate how economic geography, the
distribution of subnational economic endowments within a nation,
shapes long-run patterns of inequality through its impact on the
development of fiscal capacity. We present an argument that links
economic geography to capacity through different types of
industrialization processes. We show how early industrializers
shape spatial distributions domestically by investing in
productivity across their nations, and externally by reinforcing
spatial polarization among late industrializers. We also show how
differences in economic geography impact the process of capacity
building, setting the stage for the modern politics of
redistribution discussed in Volume II. We support this argument
with descriptive data, case studies, and cross-national analyses.
This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on
capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism
(Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism
(1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges
advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways
political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the
last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist
democracies has undergone profound changes: sweeping
deindustrialization, tertiarization of the employment structure,
and demographic developments. This book provides a synthetic view,
allowing the reader to grasp the nature of these structural
transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of
change, policy outputs, and outcomes. In contrast to functionalist
and structuralist approaches, the book advocates and contributes to
a 'return of electoral and coalitional politics' to political
economy research.
This book is a study of the politics of redistribution and
inequality in political unions. It addresses two questions: why
some political systems have more centralized systems of
interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political
unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their
constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of
the origin of fiscal structures in systems with several levels of
government. The argument points to two major factors to account for
the variation in redistribution: the interplay between economic
geography and political representation on the one hand, and the
scope of interregional economic externalities on the other. To test
the empirical implications derived from the argument, the book
relies on in-depth studies of the choice of fiscal structures in
unions as diverse as the European Union, Canada, and the United
States in the aftermath of the Great Depression; Germany before and
after Reunification; and Spain after the transition to democracy.
This book is a study of the politics of redistribution and
inequality in political unions. It addresses two questions: why
some political systems have more centralized systems of
interpersonal redistribution than others, and why some political
unions make larger efforts to equalize resources among their
constituent units than others. This book presents a new theory of
the origin of fiscal structures in systems with several levels of
government. The argument points to two major factors to account for
the variation in redistribution: the interplay between economic
geography and political representation on the one hand, and the
scope of interregional economic externalities on the other. To test
the empirical implications derived from the argument, the book
relies on in-depth studies of the choice of fiscal structures in
unions as diverse as the European Union, Canada, and the United
States in the aftermath of the Great Depression; Germany before and
after Reunification; and Spain after the transition to democracy.
This book serves as a sequel to two distinguished volumes on
capitalism: Continuity and Change in Contemporary Capitalism
(Cambridge, 1999) and Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism
(1985). Both volumes took stock of major economic challenges
advanced industrial democracies faced, as well as the ways
political and economic elites dealt with them. However, during the
last decades, the structural environment of advanced capitalist
democracies has undergone profound changes: sweeping
deindustrialization, tertiarization of the employment structure,
and demographic developments. This book provides a synthetic view,
allowing the reader to grasp the nature of these structural
transformations and their consequences in terms of the politics of
change, policy outputs, and outcomes. In contrast to functionalist
and structuralist approaches, the book advocates and contributes to
a 'return of electoral and coalitional politics' to political
economy research.
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