Comparative Political Economy

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"Comparative Political Economy is a badly needed book. There is no other study with such a far-reaching comparative and quantitative analysis of both economic and political development. Lane and Ersson cover not only the developed democracies but also the less developed areas and the communist world with discernment and balance."
Mancur Olsen, University of Maryland
"Lane and Ersson have produced an encyclopedic study of concepts, theories, and measures in crossnational comparative research on political economy. Their book reviews nearly all the established works in the field, and it is also up-to-date with citations to very recent literature. Students just entering this field will find Comparative Political Economy a rewarding place to begin their inquiry, and experienced scholars will appreciate the authors' efforts in drawing together valuable information for easy reference."
Kenneth Janda, Northwestern University
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"Comparative Political Economy is a badly needed book. There is no other study with such a far-reaching comparative and quantitative analysis of both economic and political development. Lane and Ersson cover not only the developed democracies but also the less developed areas and the communist world with discernment and balance."
Mancur Olsen, University of Maryland
"Lane and Ersson have produced an encyclopedic study of concepts, theories, and measures in crossnational comparative research on political economy. Their book reviews nearly all the established works in the field, and it is also up-to-date with citations to very recent literature. Students just entering this field will find Comparative Political Economy a rewarding place to begin their inquiry, and experienced scholars will appreciate the authors' efforts in drawing together valuable information for easy reference."
Kenneth Janda, Northwestern University
Comparative Political Economy is a
student's introduction to the comparative analysis of nations, public policy and economic affluence. It surveys the dominant theoretical approaches in the field of comparative politics and describes the polity and the economy in a large set of countries: developed Western countries, rapidly changing East European nations, and states in the Third World. Economic, social, and political developments are analysed at length and the basic concepts -democracy versus authoritarian systems and capitalist systems versus socialist ones -are employed to illuminate similarities and differences between politico-economic systems in the world. It explores the conditions for political democracy as well as the conditions for economic growth, applying quantitative techniques to crucial problems in political economy concerning the interaction between politics and economics.
Contents
Foreword
Introduction: Old and new political economy
1 Allocation, distribution and ownership
2 Concept of development
3 Socio-economic development
4 Political development
5 Economic development, democracy and performance
6 Public policy determinants in western europe
7 State or market in the world
8 Institutions and economic growth in rich countries (OECD)
9 Politics and growth rates in the world
10 Politico-economic regimes
11 Conclusion Bibliography Index
Professor Jan-Erik Lane holds a research position in public policy in the Swedish Research Council for Social Science and Humanities. While affiliated with the economics department at Lund University he has published widely in political theory, comparative politics and political economy.
Svante Ersson lectures in the political science department at Umea University. He is the co-author (with Jan-Erik Lane) of Politics and Society in Western Europe. Vissza