David Rueda is Professor of Comparative Politics and Fellow of Merton College at Oxford University. Trained at Cornell University, where his doctoral thesis won the 2001 Esman Prize for Distinguished Scholarship, his research and teaching interests include comparative politics, political economy, and comparative methods. He is the author of articles that have appeared in the American Political Science Review, World Politics, and the British Journal of Political Science.

• 1: Introduction


• 2: Governments and Policy: The Insider-Outsider Partisanship Model


• 3: The Preferences of Insiders and Outsiders: Testing the Model's Assumptions about Individual Interests


• 4: The Relationship Between Partisan Government and Policy: An Analysis of OECD Data


• 5: Partisan Government and Employment Protection


• 6: Unemployment Vulnerability and Active Labor Market Policies


• 7: Partisanship, Institutions and Social Policy


• 8: Conclusion


• References


• Index

A controversial new analysis of the relationship between social democratic governments and labor. The book will make a major contribution to the comparative political economy of industrialized democracies.