Eric C. C. Chang

Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

This book investigates the effects of electoral systems on the relative legislative and, hence, regulatory influence of competing interests in society. Building on Ronald Rogowski and Mark Andreas Kayser's extension of the classic Stigler-Peltzman model of regulation, the authors demonstrate that majoritarian electoral arrangements should empower consumers relative to producers. Employing real price levels as a proxy for consumer power, the book rigorously establishes this proposition over time, within the OECD, and across a large sample of developing countries. Majoritarian electoral arrangements depress real prices by approximately ten percent, all else equal. The authors carefully construct and test their argument and broaden it to consider the overall welfare effects of electoral system design and the incentives of actors in the choice of electoral institutions.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. November 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780511855535
• Artikelnr.: 38214199

Autorenporträt

Eric C. C. Chang received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 2003 and is Associate Professor of Political Science at Michigan State University. He studies comparative political economy, political institutions, political corruption, and democratization in developed and developing democracies. His research uses formal theory and quantitative methodology to analyze substantive political and economic phenomena. His article 'Electoral Systems, District Magnitude and Corruption', co-authored with Miriam Golden, won the 2008 Lawrence Longley Award, given by the American Political Science Association's Organized Section in Representation and Electoral Systems. His publications have also appeared in the Journal of Politics, the British Journal of Political Science, World Politics, Comparative Political Studies, and the European Journal of Political Research.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Electoral systems and consumer power: theoretical considerations
3. Electoral systems and real prices: panel evidence for the OECD countries
4. Electoral systems and real prices around the world
5. A closer look: case studies and mechanisms
6. Socio-economic origins of electoral systems
7. Discussion and conclusion.

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1. Introduction; 2. Electoral systems and consumer power: theoretical considerations; 3. Electoral systems and real prices: panel evidence for the OECD countries; 4. Electoral systems and real prices around the world; 5. A closer look: case studies and mechanisms; 6. Socio-economic origins of electoral systems; 7. Discussion and conclusion.

Rezensionen

"Government policies create winners and losers. A central question in both politics and political science is how the political system affects who wins and who loses from the battle over policy. In Electoral Systems and the Balance of Consumer-Producer Power, four leading scholars assess the impact of electoral structures on one crucial dimension of this distributional conflict, between consumers and producers. They present a forceful, theoretically grounded, argument that majoritarian systems tend to favor consumers. They go on to provide persuasive evidence, across dozens of countries, that this pro-consumer bias is reflected in relative prices. This elegant, powerful, book will be essential reading for all students of Comparative Politics and Political Economy."
-Jeffry Frieden, Harvard University