How Nations Innovate compares how affluent capitalist economies differ in their patterns of technological innovation. Building on the 'varieties of capitalism' literature, this book goes beyond the traditional focus on 'radical versus incremental innovation' in existing scholarship, and takes...

Complementing the existing literature that focuses mostly on the personal distribution of income, this paper studies how social democratic governments affect the factor distribution of national income between capital and labor, in the corporate sector. Drawing from the literature on partisanship...

While there is a large literature on how electoral institutions shape producer strategies, the other side of the market (households) has received little attention. Focusing on households, I examine how electoral rules shape the “mass consumption society”, where broad masses constantly expand...