The Troubled Southern Periphery
In: The Future of the Euro, S. 161-184
In: The Future of the Euro, S. 161-184
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Working paper
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Working paper
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 111, Heft 743, S. 94-100
ISSN: 0011-3530
World Affairs Online
In: The international spectator: journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 35-48
ISSN: 1751-9721
In: The international spectator: a quarterly journal of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, Italy, Band 47, Heft 4, S. 35-48
ISSN: 0393-2729
World Affairs Online
In: Current history: a journal of contemporary world affairs, Band 111, Heft 743, S. 94-100
ISSN: 1944-785X
Italy may reluctantly accept being 'saved by Europe' once again. But…[if] the country turns back to populism, there will be dramatic consequences for the governance of the European economy.
In: Review of international political economy, Band 19, Heft 1, S. 1-33
ISSN: 1466-4526
Are advanced democracies converging on a liberalized economic model, revolving around increasing penetration of markets and the decline of egalitarian institutions? The literature has tended to polarize between proponents of convergence and scholars who emphasize of the resilience of the distinct models of welfare capitalism. This article argues that although there is no strong evidence of convergence, the distribution of income in advanced democracies is becoming more unequal, suggesting significant change in a liberalizing direction. The article develops this argument by charting changes to the political economy of labour in two large European democracies: Italy and the United Kingdom. Despite belonging to entirely distinct 'families' of welfare capitalism, they have both undergone extensive changes to their political economy in the past three decades. We find that Italy and the UK were very different political economies in the 1970s, and remain very different today, but they have both undertaken reforms which have weakened egalitarian institutions and led to dramatic increases in poverty and inequality. This suggests that a focus on the diversity of institutional legacies and the distinct reform paths that we observe in advanced democracies should not distract from the conclusion that marketfocused economic reforms in very different institutional contexts can still lead to the same outcome: the privatization of economic risk and increased income inequality.
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In: Elezioni, governi, democrazia / Istituto Cattaneo