Hit From Abroad: Party Dominance and the Fiscal Response to External Economic Shocks

New institutionalism has emerged as one of the most prominent research agendas in the field of comparative politics, political economy, and public policy. This article examines the role of institutional variation in political/economic regimes in shaping tax burdens in industrialized democracies. An institutionalist model for tax policy variation is tested across the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) democracies. Countries are conceptualized and statistically modeled in terms of majoritarian, shifting coalition, and dominant coalition governments. Regression analysis and cluster analysis are used to statistically model cross-national tax burdens relative to the strength of labor organization and party dominance in parliament. This study finds that political and economic institutions are important in explaining tax policy variation. Specifying the structure of political and economic institutions helps to explain the size of the state in modern capitalist democracies. This article specifies and demonstrates which institutions matter and how much they matter.

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Economic shocks and their effect on the schooling and labor participation of youth: evidence from the metal mining price boom in Chilean counties

The Annals of Regional Science ◽

10.1007/s00168-021-01069-8 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Manuel Pérez Trujillo ◽

Gabriel O. Rodríguez Puello

Keyword(s):

Labor Participation ◽

Economic Shocks ◽

Metal Mining ◽

Price Boom

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Stability and Governability the Benign Effects of Party Dominance in South Africa

Insight on Africa ◽

10.1177/0975087820965172 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 56-75

Author(s):

Ainara Mancebo

Keyword(s):

South Africa ◽

South African ◽

Trade Unions ◽

African National Congress ◽

The Other ◽

Democratic Transitions ◽

African Countries ◽

National Congress ◽

Independence Era ◽

Party Dominance

A tripartite alliance formed by the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African Trade Unions has been ruling the country with wide parliamentarian majorities. The country remains more consensual and politically inclusive than any of the other African countries in the post-independence era. This article examines three performance’s aspects of the party dominance systems: legitimacy, stability and violence. As we are living in a period in which an unprecedented number of countries have completed democratic transitions, it is politically and conceptually important that we understand the specific tasks of crafting democratic consolidation.

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