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Peter Lange

Peter Lange

Thomas A. Langford University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
Political Science
peter.lange@duke.edu
Box 90005, Durham, NC 27708-0005
220 Allen Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Selected Publications

The communist parties of Italy, France and Spain: Postwar change and continuity: A casebook

Book · June 30, 2021 First published in 1981, The Communist Parties of Italy, France, and Spain presents a comparative and integrative overview of the development of three Communist parties in the postwar Europe. Through the systematic presentation of the most important docume ... Full text Cite

Unions, change and crisis: French and Italian union strategy and the political economy, 1945-1980

Book · April 14, 2016 First published in 1982, Unions, Change and Crisis represents the first detailed, comparative, historical and theoretically grounded study of two of the major trade union movements of Europe. It brings together the results of the first part of the first ma ... Full text Cite

Preface

Book · November 12, 2012 Cite

Italy in transition: Conflict and consensus

Book · November 12, 2012 This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning proce ... Full text Cite

The Political Economy of Budget Deficits

Journal Article Economics and Politics · 2007 Cite

Networking helps to get rid of deficits in research and health care

Journal Article Medizinische Welt · April 1, 2006 Cite

Multicointegration and sustainability of fiscal practices

Journal Article Economic Inquiry · September 12, 2005 Using multicointegration methodology, we develop criteria for testing sustainability of fiscal budgeting processes across all states of nature. Criteria are derived from the optimal control literature where levels and rates of change of a system of variabl ... Full text Open Access Cite

Where have all the members gone? Globalization, institutions, and union density

Journal Article Journal of Politics · January 1, 2002 There have been widespread claims in recent years about the effects of economic globalization on domestic politics and, in particular, its negative impact on wage earners and trade unions. A number of recent studies have raised serious questions about the ... Full text Cite

Where have all the members gone? La sindacalizzazione nell'era della globalizzazione

Journal Article Stato E Mercato · April 1, 1999 There have been widespread claims in recent years about the effects of economic globalization on domestic politics. A number of recent studies have raised serious questions about the validity of claims that globalization of trade and financial markets lead ... Full text Cite

Unions, employers' associations, and wage-setting institutions in northern and central Europe, 1950-1992

Journal Article Industrial and Labor Relations Review · January 1, 1997 The eight countries examined in this study - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden - have long been viewed as exemplifying "corporatist" industrial relations systems, in which union coverage is high, unions are in ... Full text Cite

Internationalization, Institutions and Political Change

Journal Article International Organization · 1995 Cite

Maastricht and the Social Protocol: Why Did They Do It?

Journal Article Politics & Society · March 1993 Full text Cite

Government partisanship, labor organization, and macroeconomic performance: A corrigendum

Journal Article American Political Science Review · January 1, 1993 Alvarez, Garrett and Lange (1991) used cross-national panel data on the Organization for Economic Coordination and Development nations to show that countries with left governments and encompassing labor movements enjoyed superior economic performance. Here ... Full text Cite

Political Responses to Interdependence: What's Left for the Left?

Journal Article International Organization · October 1991 Cite

Government Partisanship, Labor Organization, and Macroeconomic Performance

Journal Article American Political Science Review · June 1991 Governments of the Left and Right have distinct partisan economic policies and objectives that they would prefer to pursue. Their propensity to do so, however, is constrained by their desire for reelection. We argue that the ability of governments ... Full text Cite

Twenty Years after the Hot Autumn: Work and Politics in Italy from Rupture to Change

Journal Article Labour · January 1, 1990 Abstract. In the first paper the authors make a critical analysis of the interpretations and models generally used for it caso italiano(the Italian Case) and propose explanations that are not one‐sided, and that take into account all the elements of contin ... Full text Cite

Social Mobilization and Party Change

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 1990 Cite

Mobilization, Social Movements and Party Recruitment: The Italian Communist Party since the 1960s

Journal Article British Journal of Political Science · January 1990 Political life in the advanced industrial democracies since the Second World War has been characterized by periods of mass mobilization and protest followed by years of relative quiescence and institutional dominance. The individual phases have pro ... Full text Cite

The Politics of Growth Reconsidered

Journal Article The Journal of Politics · February 1987 Full text Cite

Performance in a Hostile World: Economic Growth in Capitalist Democracies, 1974–1982

Journal Article World Politics · July 1986 Many recent studies argue that labor organization and government partisanship were important determinants of the economic performance of the advanced industrial democracies during stagflation. They do not, however, take into account the potential i ... Full text Cite

Norwegian Incomes Policy in Comparative Perspective

Other Testimony to the Joint Economic Committee of the United States’ Congress, October 20, 1981 and printed by the Committee · 1982 Cite

Crisis and Consent, Change and Compromise: Italian Communism in the 1970s

Journal Article Italy in Transition and in West European Politics · October 1979 Cite

Voter Turnout in Advnaced Industrial Democracy

Other Study prepared for the Committee for the Study of the American Electorate · September 1979 Cite

Carter in the Italian Maze

Journal Article Foreign Policy · 1978 Cite

What is to be done--about Italian Communism?

Journal Article Foreign Policy · 1975 Cite

La politica delle alleanze del PCI e del PCF

Journal Article Il Mulino · 1975 Cite