This Ph.D. thesis consists of three chapters and analyzes how economic structures affect political outcomes. In the first chapter, Uwe Sunde and I develop a model to study the endogenous emergence of political regimes in societies in which productive resources are distributed unequally and...

Machine generated contents note: List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Paving the High Road; Closing the Low Road -- Part I-European Social Democracy Points Toward the High Road -- 1 Social Citizenship: Lessons from Sweden -- 2 Associative Democracy: Lessons from Europe's German...