Yes, and comparative analysis too: Rejoinder to Hacker and Pierson

Studies in American Political Development

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 196-200

  Swenson, Peter A ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 12144262270     PISSN: 0898588X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0898588x04000112     Document Type: Review

References (16)

1. Henry Axel Bueck, Der Centralverband Deutscher Industrieller 1876-1901, 3 vols. (Berlin: Deutscher Verlag, 1905), 2:791.
2. Monika Breger, "Der Anteil der deutschen Grossindustriellen an der Konzeptualisierung der Bismarckschen Sozialgesetzgebung," in Bismarcks Sozialstaat, ed. Lothar Machtan (Frankfurt: Campus, 1994), 40-43, 46.
3. Isabela Mares, The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 144-65; quote from 164. Margareta Estévez-Abe comes to similar conclusions about capitalist interests and cross-class alliances, interacting with institutional and electoral factors, in the evolution of the Japanese welfare state, in "Political Logics of Welfare Capitalism: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business in Postwar Japan" (unpublished mss., 2004).
4. Isabela Mares, The Politics of Social Risk: Business and Welfare State Development (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), 144-65; quote from 164. Margareta Estévez-Abe comes to similar conclusions about capitalist interests and cross-class alliances, interacting with institutional and electoral factors, in the evolution of the Japanese welfare state, in "Political Logics of Welfare Capitalism: Party, Bureaucracy, and Business in Postwar Japan" (unpublished mss., 2004).
5. See also Swenson, Capitalists against Markets: The Making of Labor Markets and Welfare States in the United States and Sweden (New York: Oxford University Press, 2002).
6. Pierson, Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Pierson, "The New Politics of the Welfare State," World Politics 48 (1996): 143-79.
7. Pierson, Dismantling the Welfare State? Reagan, Thatcher and the Politics of Retrenchment (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994); Pierson, "The New Politics of the Welfare State," World Politics 48 (1996): 143-79.
8. In Capitalists against Markets, 238-39, I question Fred Block's earlier capitalist power outage explanation of the New Deal.
9. I use this characterization to justify stating that they adopt, if only implicitly, the equivalency premise. Refusing to take expressions of capitalist support on face value, but interpreting all expressions of opposition as entirely sincere and unambiguous, seems to be operationally equivalent to assuming that capitalists always oppose the welfare state.
10. H. "Interview with Barbara Armstrong," Social Security Project, Columbia University Oral History Collection (typescript, 1969), 30-31, 85-86, 92. According to the remainder of Armstrong's account, her influential presence as CES consultant was probably due to Gerard Swope of G.E. and his relationship with FDR; that FDR was far more solicitous of the corporate progressives regarding OAI than CES chair Perkins and director Edwin Witte; and that had it not been for these factors, OAI might not have been included in the SSA.
11. See Domhoff, State Autonomy or Class Dominance? Case Studies on Policy Making in America (New York: Aldine deGruyter, 1996), 117-76, 155-56, 175.
12. NICB, Industrial Pensions in the United States (New York: National Industrial Conference Board, 1925), 5-6.
13. Steven A. Sass, The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 84-86; NICB, Industrial Pensions, 42-43.
14. Steven A. Sass, The Promise of Private Pensions: The First Hundred Years (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1997), 84-86; NICB, Industrial Pensions, 42-43.
15. "Interview with Marion Folsom," Social Security Project, Columbia University Oral History Collection (typescript, 1965), 75-76.
16. Rainard Robbins, Pension Planning in the United States (New York: TIAA, 1952), 118.