Insider–Outsider Politics in Industrialized Democracies: The Challenge to Social Democratic Parties
01 Feb 2005-American Political Science Review (Cambridge University Press)-Vol. 99, Iss: 1, pp 61-74
TL;DR: The authors argue that the goals of social democratic parties are often best served by pursuing policies that benefit insiders while ignoring the interests of outsiders and analyze Eurobarometer data and annual macrodata from 16 OECD countries from 1973 to 1995, concluding that insider-outsider politics are fundamental to a fuller explanation of government partisanship, policy-making, and social democracy since the 1970s.
Abstract: In much of the political economy literature, social democratic governments are assumed to defend the interests of labor The main thrust of this article is that labor is divided into those with secure employment (insiders) and those without (outsiders) I argue that the goals of social democratic parties are often best served by pursuing policies that benefit insiders while ignoring the interests of outsiders I analyze Eurobarometer data and annual macrodata from 16 OECD countries from 1973 to 1995 I explore the question of whether strategies prevalent in the golden age of social democracy have been neglected and Left parties have abandoned the goal of providing equality and security to the most vulnerable sectors of the labor market By combining research on political economy, institutions, and political behavior, my analysis demonstrates that insider–outsider politics are fundamental to a fuller explanation of government partisanship, policy-making, and social democracy since the 1970s
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...Unlike Rueda (2005), however, we see this as a distinctly CD rather than a social democratic pattern....
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...Although Saint-Paul (1996) and Rueda (2005) suggest otherwise, we believe this has shored up employment while preventing the development of either deep insider–outsider divisions (as in the continental European countries) or stark wage inequality as in the liberal countries....
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...These groups tend to become ‘outsiders’ (Dalton and Wattenberg 2000; Kitschelt 2001; Rueda 2005)....
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine how local and global political risks affect industry return volatility and find that industries that are more dependent on trade, contract enforcement, and labor exhibit greater return volatility when local political risks are higher.
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...Using European data, Rueda (2005) uncovers a similar relation between employment protection and left government partisanship (even after controlling for party fixed effects)....
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