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Social protection and the formation of skills: a reinterpretation of the welfare state
- D. Soskice, Margarita Estévez-abe, T. Iversen
- Economics
- 2001
This paper outlines a new approach to the study of the welfare state. Contrary to the emphasis on “decommmodification” in the current literature, we argue that important dimensions of the welfare… Expand
An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences
- T. Iversen, D. Soskice
- Business
- American Political Science Review
- 1 December 2001
We present a theory of social policy preferences that emphasizes the composition of people's skills. The key to our argument is that individuals who have made risky investments in skills will demand… Expand
Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others
- T. Iversen, D. Soskice
- Economics
- American Political Science Review
- 1 May 2006
Standard political economy models of redistribution, notably that of Meltzer and Richard (1981), fail to account for the remarkable variance in government redistribution across democracies. We… Expand
Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation
- T. Iversen, J. Stephens
- Economics
- 1 April 2008
The authors propose a synthesis of power resources theory and welfare production regime theory to explain differences in human capital formation across advanced democracies. Emphasizing the mutually… Expand
The Causes of Welfare State Expansion: Deindustrialization or Globalization?
- T. Iversen, Thomas R. Cusack
- Economics
- 1 April 2000
An influential line of argument holds that globalization causes economic uncertainty and spurs popular demands for compensatory welfare state spending. This article argues that the relationship… Expand
Contested Economic Institutions: The Politics of Macroeconomics and Wage Bargaining in Advanced Democracies
- T. Iversen
- Economics
- 1999
1. Introduction Part I. The Real Effects of Monetary Policies: 2. An institutional model of economic performance 3. Economic institutions and performance: quantitative evidence Part II. The Politics… Expand
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Equality, Employment, and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy
- T. Iversen, Torben Anne Wren
- Economics
- 1 July 1998
This article presents an analysis of the postindustrial economy from a political economy perspective. It identifies a set of specific distributional trade-offs associated with the new role played by… Expand
The Nonneutrality of Monetary Policy with Large Price or Wage Setters
- D. Soskice, T. Iversen
- Economics
- 1 February 2000
Monetary rules matter for the equilibrium rate of employment when the number of price-wage setters is small, even when assuming rational expectations, complete information, central bank… Expand
Capitalism, Democracy, and Welfare
- T. Iversen
- Political Science, Economics
- 11 July 2005
Part I. Welfare Production Regimes: 1. A political economy approach to the welfare state 2. A brief analytical history of modern welfare production regimes Part II. Political Foundations of Social… Expand
Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century
- T. Iversen, T. D. Soskice
- Economics
- 1 July 2009
The authors present an alternative to power resource theory as an approach to the study of distribution and redistribution. While they agree that partisanship and union power are important, they… Expand