Political parties, games and redistribution
By: Rosa Mulé.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
Subjects: Income distribution.; Political parties.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 213-243) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Introduction; title: Welfare state expansion and retrenchment; title: The argument of this book; title: Comparative strategy; title: The Luxembourg Income Study; title: The structure of the book; title: X Political parties, games and income redistribution; title: Traditional redistributive games: median voter, political business cycle; title: and partisan model; title: Advances in the theory of party politics; title: Party goals: trade-offs and priorities; title: Party competition: arithmetical particularism and Director's Law; title: Party organisation: pivotal players, strategic disagreement, sequential; title: elections and correlated strategies; title: Conclusion: political slack and redistributive policies; title: 2 Opposition effects, blackmail and u-turns under; title: Pierre Elliot Trudeau; title: Political background; title: Social deavages and redistribution; title: Electoral incentives for redistribution; title: The New Liberals and expansionary policies; title: Why the guaranteed annual income proposal failed; title: The NDP challenge and the 1971 unemployment scheme; title: The blackmail game; title: The u-turn; title: Income inequality: demography, markets and income transfers; title: Conclusions; title: 3 The arithmetics of politics under Margaret Thatcher; title: Political background; title: Electoral incentives for redistribution; title: Explicit games and the antiegalitarian crusade; title: Sequential elections; title: Breaking the internal alliance on social security policies; title: Income inequality: demography, markets and income transfers; title: Conclusions; title: 4 Right-wing ascendency, pivotal players and asymmetric; title: power under Bob Hawke; title: Political background; title: Electoral incentives for redistribution; title: Political renewal shapes social policies; title: The Centre-Left as a pivotal player in redistributive games; title: Two-stage game over redistributive policies; title: The acquiescence of trade unions: consensus or imbalance?; title: Asymmetric bargaining and social security reforms; title: Income inequality: demography, markets and transfer policies; title: Conclusions; title: 5 The demise of the federal social safety net under Clinton; title: Political background; title: The evolution of policies towards low-income groups: electoral and; title: institutional determinants; title: Strategic disagreement and the stalemate of welfare reform, 1992-I994; title: The Paternalistic-Deterrence game; title: 'Deserving and undeserving poor'; title: Conclusions; title: 6 Conclusions; title: Comparative analysis; title: The redistributive logic in liberal democracies; title: Distributive elites, institutional context and opposition effects; title: Comparing redistributive games; title: Reassessing the party-policy link; title: The future of redistribution; title: Technical addendum; title: Bibliography; title: Index.