We combine two economic/political concepts to explain how U. S. crony corporatism is linked to the recent evidence of increased vertical integration in global value chains. (Mapping Global Value Chains, ECB Working Paper No. 1677, Koen de Backer, S. Miroudot, SSRN, 2014.).We conclude that the...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the paths, directions, and ensuing degrees of technological adoption fostered by trade unions or, alternatively, forms of resistance thereof, in the so called 'Italian Motor-Valley', a distinctive technological district located in the outskirts of...

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for...

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for...

The chapter commences with a definition of corporatism, tripartism and social partnership. Corporatism refers to a socio-economic and political ideology that underpins a system of interest representation in which the social partners – that is, organised business, organised labour and the...

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US bed capacity at independent hospitals dropped from 42% to 19% – a rapid corporatization of care. We study whether this restructuring of the industry in favor of larger firms improved hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level data...

This chapter encourages readers to think of agricultural communities in the era of climate change-induced droughts and population growth similar to when western Pennsylvania’s steel industry collapsed in the 1980s. If water must flow uphill to money, it should not leave a dust bowl behind....

"A transnational history of corporatism-a "third path" between capitalism and communism-centered on mid-twentieth century Brazil. Following the First World War, there was a widespread feeling that the unchecked free-market competition had given rise to financial crisis, social unrest, and...

The instability of liberal democracies both in Europe and in the Americans partly brought about by the COVID-19 Pandemic has shown the limits of this construct in terms of protecting the core values of liberalism itself, such as freedom of speech and the protection of private property. Riots in...

This chapter examines the employment discrimination protections in Sweden under its two faces, namely the law in books and the law in action. Access to justice, or the lack thereof, is argued to be a major reason for the law not being given significant effect by the courts, as well as in the...

The current country wide protest by Farmers in India against the unjustifiable laws passed by current Government in power in India. How a strategic approach to bring in natural death to the sector and many other similar areas is being engineered with mindless and reckless corporatization and...

The modern stakeholder movement in the U.S. is arguably an attempt to import European corporatism into U.S. corporate practice and public policy. Hence, it is useful to ask (i) do European firms really invest in stakeholder welfare; and (ii) are such investments accomplished at the cost of lower...

We propose an explanation for the wide variation in rates of taxation across developed economies, based on differences in labor market institutions. In "corporatist" economies, which feature centralized labor markets, taxes on labor input will be less distortionary than when labor supply is...

The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to...

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to disentangle the relationship between pay and...

There exist many indicators for corporatism. Using a latent variables approach, we extract common aspects in 29 corporatism indicators which have been suggested in the literature and find two factors that can be identified as the degree of coordination between employers and trade unions, and the...

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to hikes in real pay. Efficiency wage theory hypothesizes that pay increases can lead to productivity improvements. But would such results be observed in a corporatist economy with centralized bargaining? For the case of Austria, a...

Research on environmental governance in China has shown that centre–local relations often influence the implementation and efficacy of environmental regulations. By examining changes in resource allocation and rural development between 1982 and 2005 in the region worst affected by...

Since 1949, China has tried a large number of successful and not-so-successful corporatist experiments. What these phases have in common is a ‘state corporatist' (top-down) approach, albeit with shifting degrees of state involvement; and in the present era, a snail's pace effort towards...