scholarly journals Thinking about Thinking about Comparative Political Economy: From Macro to Micro and Back

2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-54 ◽  
Author(s):  
Herman Mark Schwartz ◽  
Bent Sofus Tranøy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Political Legitimacy ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Past ◽  
Financial Bubble ◽  
Central Economic

How and why did comparative political economy (CPE) lose sight of the sources of growing macroeconomic and political instability, a problem that encompassed a growing financial bubble and then a crash in the housing market, a period of sluggish growth that plausibly constitutes secular stagnation, and a crisis of political legitimacy manifesting itself in the rise of antisystem “populist” parties? A gradual shift in CPE’s research agenda from macroeconomic to microeconomic concerns, and from demand-side to supply-side explanations, diminished its ability to analyze adequately the central economic and political problems of the past twenty years. This article traces CPE’s evolution through successive “supermodels” that constituted its core research foci. To understand the current crisis, CPE needs to revisit and update its original roots in Keynes, macroeconomics, and the demand side. This shift is already happening at the margins, as CPE scholars struggle to understand the current crisis.

Wage-Setting Measures: A Survey and Assessment

2001 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-98 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lane Kenworthy
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Wage Setting ◽  
The Past ◽  
Measurement Strategy ◽  
Time Periods ◽  
Wage Coordination

Wage setting has been one of the most heavily studied institutions in the field of comparative political economy over the past two decades, and quantitative measures of wage-setting arrangements have played a major role in this research. Yet the proliferation of such measures in recent years presents researchers with a sizable array from which to choose. In addition, some scholars are rather skeptical about the validity and/or reliability of these measures. This article offers a survey and assessment of fifteen wage-setting measures. It attempts to answer questions about (1) how these indicators differ from one another in conceptualization and measurement strategy; (2) which are the most valid and reliable; (3) the strengths and weaknesses of measures of wage centralization versus those of wage coordination; (4) particular countries or time periods for which there are noteworthy discrepancies in scoring; (5) how sensitive empirical findings are to the choice of wage-setting measure.

Enhanced Demand-Side Placement Model to Meet the Needs of Transition Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 168-182
Author(s):  
Dennis Gilbride ◽  
Robert Stensrud ◽  
Matt Bruinekool
Keyword(s):  
System Change ◽  
Career Pathways ◽  
Rehabilitation Counselors ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Transition Age Youth ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Transition Age ◽  
Entry Level ◽  
The Past

Background:Over the past 25 years, research has demonstrated the value of the demand-side placement model in increasing employment opportunities for people with disabilities.Objective:The demand-side model is focused on working with businesses (the demand-side) to create systemic change within companies to pull-in consumers, in contrast to a supply side model in which we try to push clients into employment.Method:This article describes an extension of the model that is focused on establishing sector-based career pipelines between transition age youth and entry-level jobs that offer opportunities for advancement along career pathways.Findings:A number of the components of the model described in this article have been tried in various states and localities but nowhere has this model been comprehensively implemented.Conclusion:The six phases of the model are outlined with a detailed description of the activities rehabilitation counselors need to perform or facilitate the system change necessary to increase employment opportunities for transition age youth.

China's Inflation: Demand-Pull or Cost-Push?

2012 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 92-106 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xiaojing Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Private Investment ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Inflation Pressure ◽  
Pull Factors ◽  
Push Factors ◽  
The Past ◽  
Demand Pull ◽  
The Cost

This paper studies the determinants of China's inflation and finds that demand-pull factors have been more important than cost-push factors in driving the inflation in the past decade. Because China's economic growth will gradually moderate and because the adjustment of the prices of the factors of production is also underway, the cost-push factors may soon play a more significant role in driving future inflation. Thus the Keynesian-style demand-side policy will not be enough to control inflation. More attention must now be given to supply-side management—such as dismantling monopolies, boosting private investment, encouraging innovation, and improving productivity—to mitigate the medium- to long-term inflation pressure.

An Agenda for Future Research

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Campbell ◽  
Ove K. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Convergence Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Knowledge Regime ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cross National

This postscript offers some suggestions for a research agenda for the future, including questions and propositions for scholars to consider regarding globalization and neoliberal diffusion, comparative political economy, and convergence theory. It asks whether the same conclusions can be obtained if different countries and different policy areas were examined. This curiosity about other countries might translate into efforts to change knowledge regimes, such as by doing more cross-national policy analysis. The chapter also asks whether knowledge regimes are a source of legitimation or a source of inspiration. Ultimately, more effort is required to determine whether the overall structure and practices of a knowledge regime influences the type of ideas it tends to produce.

Opioids and Public Health: The Prescription Opioid Ecosystem and Need for Improved Management

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evan D. Kharasch ◽  
J. David Clark ◽  
Jerome M. Adams
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Prescription Opioid ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Opioid Prescribing ◽  
The Past ◽  
New Approaches ◽  
Opioid Deaths

While U.S. opioid prescribing has decreased 38% in the past decade, opioid deaths have increased 300%. This opioid paradox is poorly recognized. Current approaches to opioid management are not working, and new approaches are needed. This article reviews the outcomes and shortcomings of recent U.S. opioid policies and strategies that focus primarily or exclusively on reducing or eliminating opioid prescribing. It introduces concepts of a prescription opioid ecosystem and opioid pool, and it discusses how the pool can be influenced by supply-side, demand-side, and opioid returns factors. It illuminates pressing policy needs for an opioid ecosystem that enables proper opioid stewardship, identifies associated responsibilities, and emphasizes the necessity of making opioid returns as easy and common as opioid prescribing, in order to minimize the size of the opioid pool available for potential diversion, misuse, overdose, and death. Approaches are applicable to opioid prescribing in general, and to opioid prescribing after surgery.

scholarly journals The Current Crisis of US Neoliberal Capitalism and Prospects for a New “Social Structure of Accumulation”

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-210
Author(s):  
David Jaffee
Keyword(s):  
Historical Analysis ◽  
Jel Classification ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
The Political ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Neoliberal Capitalism ◽  
The Face ◽  
Social Structure Of Accumulation

Wage squeeze/profit squeeze crisis theories provide a powerful framework for the historical analysis of US capitalist crises and the alternating demand-side and supply-side social structures of accumulation (SSA). However, the current neoliberal SSA would seem to defy the logic of this model in its persistence in the face of a deep financial crisis and a failure to realize its espoused objectives. This paper reviews this theoretical model of economic crises, its relationship to and viability alongside the rise and establishment of neoliberalism, and some of the political and economic obstacles that would seem to prevent the construction of a new SSA that would address and correct the glaring deficiencies of neoliberal political economy. JEL Classification: P16, G01

Of Bogeymen and The Promises of The Past or How to Construct a Uniform Identity : A Response to Markus Davidsen

2020 ◽  
Vol 74 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-262
Author(s):  
Katja Rakow
Keyword(s):  
Research Program ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
Disciplinary Identity ◽  
The Past ◽  
Dutch Study ◽  
Science Of Religion ◽  
The Way

Abstract The response to Markus Altena Davidsen’s article ‘Theo van Baaren’s Systematic Science of Religion Revisited: The Current Crisis in Dutch Study of Religion and a Way Out’ analyses the image of anthropology depicted in the article. It delineates the role anthropology plays in formulating Davidsen’s vision for a new disciplinary identity and research agenda of a ‘science of religion’. The response further questions if reanimating a research program from the mid-20th century is indeed the way forward for the discipline. The last part will discuss different views of comparison and its role in research on religion at large.

The Economic Turn in Comparative Politics

2000 ◽  
Vol 33 (6-7) ◽  
pp. 822-844 ◽  
Author(s):  
Margaret Levi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Science ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
The Future

This article emphasizes comparative politics research that combines the tools and theories of economics, primarily microeconomics, with the tools and theories of political science. It traces and assesses the transformation of comparative political economy into an approach that actually is both political and economic and outlines a research agenda for the future.

Consumer Versus Corporate Moral Responsibilities for Creating a Circular Fashion: Virtue or Accountability?

2021 ◽  
pp. 0887302X2098612
Author(s):  
Chung-Wha (Chloe) Ki ◽  
Jung E Ha-Brookshire
Keyword(s):  
Moral Responsibility ◽  
Mixed Method ◽  
Supply Side ◽  
Demand Side ◽  
Mixed Method Approach ◽  
The Past ◽  
Moral Responsibilities ◽  
Method Approach

Scholars in the fashion discipline have become more attentive to investigating how the fashion business can become more circular. In the past, many of the studies focused on identifying the supporting and/or hindering factors when creating a circular fashion (CF). Despite the insights these studies provide, their contributions are relatively limited in that many of them are exploratory in nature and skewed toward understanding CF from the stance of fashion companies who are situated at the supply side of the fashion economy. In contrast, little attention has been given to how consumers, on the demand side, perceive a CF. We employed a mixed-method approach using 332 respondents’ narrative data and empirically identified whether consumers attribute moral responsibility to fashion companies as well as to themselves for creating a CF and, if so, whether there are any nuanced differences in their perceptions of consumer versus corporate moral responsibilities for a CF.

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