Coordinamento:
Lucio Baccaro
Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
Niccolo Durazzi
School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh
niccolo.durazzi@ed.ac.uk
Call for papers
Comparative political economy scholarship has been characterised over the last decade by a lively intellectual debate around the role of demand and supply side factors in explaining variation across time and space in the political-economic conKiguration of advanced capitalist democracies. The Growth Model perspective highlighted the importance of different demand drivers of growth (e.g., wages, proKits, exports, debt) as the key analytical device to explain diversity in contemporary capitalism and associated distributional implications (Baccaro and Pontusson 2016; Baccaro, Blyth and Pontusson 2022). Other contributions, theoretically closer to the Varieties of Capitalism literature (Hall and Soskice 2001), have instead focused on supply side institutions and policies – such as human capital formation, investment in R&D – in interaction with technological change to make sense of current socio-economic trends in the advanced democracies (Diessner, Durazzi and Hope 2022; Thelen 2019). Although efforts have been made to bring together demand and supply (Hassel and Palier 2021), this session seeks to advance the dialogue between the two approaches. We are particularly interested in exploring if and how supply and demand side-oriented approaches can be theoretically integrated in a framework that accommodates both, while retaining explanatory power. We welcome diverse contributions that engage with this overarching theme through small-N qualitative studies of speciKic policies (e.g., skill formation, labour market policy, macroeconomic policy, industrial policy) or political developments (e.g., growth coalitions, institutional complementarities) as well as large-N quantitative studies on economic performance and socio-political outcomes in advanced capitalist democracies.