Qui Regit: Electorates, Producer Groups, and Change in Advanced Capitalist Democracies

Cyril Benoît () and Tim Vlandas
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Cyril Benoît: CEE - Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) - Sciences Po - Sciences Po - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Tim Vlandas: DSPI - Department of Social Policy and Intervention - University of Oxford

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Abstract: What explains changes in the economic structures, institutions and policies of Advanced Capitalist Democracies (ACDs)? In this article, we suggest that the various answers to this question in the field of Comparative Political Economy (CPE) are essentially linked to two main approaches. The first approach emphasizes the role of electorates and political parties, their transformations, and their competition in shaping the evolution of ACDs. The second approach highlights the primacy of producer groups as the most powerful actors influencing the trajectory of ACDs. This review article introduces the debate between these two approaches and underscores its enduring relevance. It then discusses four recent important contributions that provide renewed perspectives on what remains a structuring cleavage in CPE, with implications for neighbouring fields in political science research. Through a systematic comparison of their analytical structure accross various dimensions, we show that their conception of the economy critically shapes their understanding of politics.

Keywords: politics of growth; institutional change; electoral competition; producer groups; comparative political economy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
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Published in Political Studies Review, inPress, ⟨10.1177/14789299241311766⟩

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DOI: 10.1177/14789299241311766

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