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Inequality, Labor Market Segmentation, and Preferences for Redistribution by Alt, James, Iversen, Torben

“…We formalize and examine two overlapping models that show how rising inequality combined with ethnic and racial heterogeneity can explain why many advanced…”
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Electoral Institutions and the Politics of Coalitions: Why Some Democracies Redistribute More Than Others by IVERSEN, TORBEN, SOSKICE, DAVID

“…Standard political economy models of redistribution, notably that of Meltzer and Richard (1981), fail to account for the remarkable variance in government…”
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Democratic Limits to Redistribution: Inclusionary versus Exclusionary Coalitions in the Knowledge Economy by Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David

“…The knowledge economy, deindustrialization, and the decline of Fordism have undermined the economic complementarities that once existed between skilled and…”
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Information and Financialization: Credit Markets as a New Source of Inequality by Iversen, Torben, Rehm, Philipp

“…Driven by financialization and rising demand for credit, household sector debt in OECD countries has risen sharply. We argue that this rise in private debt has…”
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Redistribution Without a Median Voter: Models of Multidimensional Politics by Iversen, Torben, Goplerud, Max

“…Most work on redistribution in democracies is anchored in long-standing unidimensional models, notably the seminal Meltzer-Richard-Romer model. When scholars…”
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Partisan Politics, the Welfare State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation by Iversen, Torben, Stephens, John D.

“…The authors propose a synthesis of power resources theory and welfare production regime theory to explain differences in human capital formation across…”
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The Political Economy of Gender: Explaining Cross-National Variation in the Gender Division of Labor and the Gender Voting Gap by Iversen, Torben, Rosenbluth, Frances

“…Mainstream political economy has tended to treat the family as a unit when examining the distributional consequences of labor market institutions and of public…”
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An Asset Theory of Social Policy Preferences by Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David

“…We present a theory of social policy preferences that emphasizes the composition of people's skills. The key to our argument is that individuals who have made…”
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Sediment oxygen demand in streams : lab measurements underestimate in situ rates substantially by Jeppesen, Erik, Moth Iversen, Torben, Sh, Tserenpil

“…Global warming is expected to affect stream metabolism significantly; and higher temperatures may lead to higher respiration and thus higher risk of oxygen…”
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Equality, Employment, and Budgetary Restraint: The Trilemma of the Service Economy by Iversen, Torben, Wren, Anne

“…This article presents an analysis of the postindustrial economy from a political economy perspective. It identifies a set of specific distributional trade-offs…”
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Information, Inequality, and Mass Polarization: Ideology in Advanced Democracies by Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David

“…Growing polarization in the American Congress is closely related to rising income inequality. Yet there has been no corresponding polarization of the U.S…”
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Distribution and Redistribution: The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century by Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David

“…The authors present an alternative to power resource theory as an approach to the study of distribution and redistribution. While they agree that partisanship…”
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The Eurozone and Political Economic Institutions by Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David, Hope, David

“…This review sets out a recently developed comparative political economy literature on the Eurozone, which has a basis in both varieties of capitalism and…”
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The Political Representation of Economic Interests: Subversion of Democracy or Middle-Class Supremacy? by Elkjær, Mads Andreas, Iversen, Torben

“…ABSTRACT Rising inequality has caused concerns that democratic governments are no longer responding to majority demands, an argument the authors label the…”
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Politics for markets by Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David

“…We argue that the welfare state operates very differently in the advanced sectors of modern economies and in the low-skill sectors. Governments are concerned…”
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Work and Power: The Connection Between Female Labor Force Participation and Female Political Representation by Iversen, Torben, Rosenbluth, Frances

“…Low levels of female labor force participation contribute to female underrepresentation in democratic polities, both by reinforcing traditional voter attitudes…”
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Real Exchange Rates and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of Skill Formation, Wage Compression, and Electoral Systems by IVERSEN, TORBEN, SOSKICE, DAVID

“…A major puzzle in the open economy literature is why some countries have persistently higher real exchange rates than others. Even more puzzling is the fact…”
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Probabilistic justice against status defense: inequality, uncertainty, and the future of the welfare state by Friedman, Rachel Z., Iversen, Torben

“…The postwar welfare state provides social insurance against economic, health, and related risks in an uncertain world. Because everyone can envision themselves…”
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Economic Interests and the Origins of Electoral Systems by CUSACK, THOMAS R., IVERSEN, TORBEN, SOSKICE, DAVID

“…The standard explanation for the choice of electoral institutions, building on Rokkan's seminal work, is that proportional representation (PR) was adopted by a…”
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Informal Social Networks and Rational Voting by Abrams, Samuel, Iversen, Torben, Soskice, David

“…Classical rational choice explanations of voting participation are widely thought to have failed. This article argues that the currently dominant Group…”
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