The Transformation of Government Intervention in the Economy in Advanced Democracies

先进民主国家政府干预经济的转变

• 批准号: 429210114
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Reimut Zohlnhöfer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Institut für Politische Wissenschaft
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2019
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2018-12-31 至 2023-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/429210114?language=en
• 关键词: Transformation; Government; Intervention; Economy; Advanced

Can globalization, Europeanization, learning and emulation as well as socio-economic problems explain the changes in government intervention in the economy in the areas of business taxation, government spending, privatization, subsidies and market regulation in the advanced democracies? This question will be investigated in the project. This question will be tackled in three steps. First, unconditional effects of the drivers of change on the individual policies will be analyzed. From a political science perspective, however, it seems likely that domestic factors will filter the effects of these drivers of change. Therefore, in a second step these conditional effects will be tested. I will focus on the partisan complexion of government, party competition and veto players here. In the third step, I will investigate in how far it is justified to talk about changes in “the” interventionist state. This will be done in three distinct ways. First, I will analyze if the various interventionist policies indeed display similar dynamics, i.e., if the same factors help explain the changes in these policy instruments. Second, I will take a disaggregated view and analyze patterns of regulation, subsidization and privatization at the sectoral level and various spending items separately, to find out whether the same variables drive the liberalization process across different sectors and spending categories. Third, I will look at the development of the interventionist state as such, i.e. on an aggregated level and will seek to analyze the main determinants of this overall development of government intervention. By answering these questions, the project will contribute to the literature in manifold ways, as extant research mostly focusses on the unconditional effects of the drivers of change on the extent of changes in individual policy instruments. Therefore, new insights can be expected firstly regarding the question whether domestic factors systematically filter the effects of the drivers of change. Secondly, the comparative analysis of the different interventionist policy instruments as well as the disaggregated analysis will generate new findings, which will contribute to a more nuanced understanding of these processes of policy change. Thirdly, the aggregate analysis of the interventionist state allows to better understand the overall process of liberalization. Fourthly, I will systematically investigate if the financial crisis of 2007ff. has interrupted or even reversed the trend of liberalization of the previous 25 years – which has not been done in the literature so far, either. Fifthly, I will fill an important void by collecting data on two privatization indicators (privatization proceeds and the importance of state-owned enterprises in the economy) which have not been updated anymore for a decade or more. Moreover, these contributions should also allow me to sort out at least some of the contradictions that currently prevail in the literature.

全球化、欧洲化、学习和竞争以及社会经济问题能否解释发达民主国家政府在商业税收、政府支出、私有化、补贴和市场监管等领域对经济干预的变化？这个问题将在项目中进行调查。这个问题将分三步解决。首先，将分析变革驱动因素对个别政策的无条件影响。然而，从政治学的角度来看，国内因素似乎会过滤掉这些变革驱动因素的影响。因此，在第二步中，将测试这些条件效应。我将在这里集中讨论政府的党派性质、党派竞争和否决权。在第三步中，我将研究在多大程度上谈论干预主义国家的变化是合理的。这将以三种不同的方式进行。首先，我将分析各种干预政策是否确实显示出类似的动态，即，如果同样的因素有助于解释这些政策工具的变化。第二，从部门和支出的角度，对管制、补贴和私有化的模式进行分类分析，以查明在不同的部门和支出类别中，是否有相同的变量在推动自由化进程。第三，我将研究干预主义国家的发展，即在总体水平上，并将试图分析政府干预的这种全面发展的主要决定因素。通过回答这些问题，该项目将以多种方式对文献作出贡献，因为现有的研究主要集中在变革驱动因素对个别政策工具变革程度的无条件影响上。因此，首先可以期待对国内因素是否系统地过滤了变革驱动因素的影响这一问题有新的认识。第二，对不同的干预政策工具进行比较分析以及分类分析将产生新的结果，这将有助于更细致地了解这些政策变化过程。第三，对干预主义国家的总体分析有助于更好地理解自由化的总体进程。第四，对2007年以来的金融危机进行了系统的研究。中断甚至扭转了过去25年的自由化趋势-这在文献中也是迄今为止没有的。第五，收集10多年来没有更新过的两个民营化指标（民营化收益和国有企业在经济中的重要性）的数据，填补重要的空白。此外，这些贡献也应该使我能够整理出目前文献中普遍存在的一些矛盾。