"Overall, this is an important contribution to the study of electoral competition and political parties and to the significant role still played by politics in economic management in the context of globalization." Canadian Journal of Political Science

• 1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and the structural conditions of the economy; 3. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (I). Public investment and the formation of human capital; 4. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (II). The public business sector and tax strategies; 5. The social democratic project: macroeconomic stability and state intervention in Spain; 6. The political and electoral dimensions of the PSOE's economic strategy; 7. Turning around the postwar consensus: defining a new economic framework in Britain; 8. The political and electoral dimensions of the conservative economic strategy; 9. Political parties, electoral coalitions, and domestic institutions; 10. Conclusion.

"Overall, this is an important contribution to the study of electoral competition and political parties and to the significant role still played by politics in economic management in the context of globalization." Canadian Journal of Political Science

• 1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and the structural conditions of the economy; 3. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (I). Public investment and the formation of human capital; 4. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (II). The public business sector and tax strategies; 5. The social democratic project: macroeconomic stability and state intervention in Spain; 6. The political and electoral dimensions of the PSOE's economic strategy; 7. Turning around the postwar consensus: defining a new economic framework in Britain; 8. The political and electoral dimensions of the conservative economic strategy; 9. Political parties, electoral coalitions, and domestic institutions; 10. Conclusion.

"Overall, this is an important contribution to the study of electoral competition and political parties and to the significant role still played by politics in economic management in the context of globalization." Canadian Journal of Political Science

• 1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and the structural conditions of the economy; 3. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (I). Public investment and the formation of human capital; 4. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (II). The public business sector and tax strategies; 5. The social democratic project: macroeconomic stability and state intervention in Spain; 6. The political and electoral dimensions of the PSOE's economic strategy; 7. Turning around the postwar consensus: defining a new economic framework in Britain; 8. The political and electoral dimensions of the conservative economic strategy; 9. Political parties, electoral coalitions, and domestic institutions; 10. Conclusion.