Authors:

  • Torben Iversen

Excerpt

LIBERAL DIFFERENCES: Co-evolutionary patterns of advanced capitalism and political institutions in the UK and the US from the industrial revolution to the 1920s. Torben Iversen,  October 2011, Paper. "Remarkably little comparative work has been on the coevolution of the institutions of modern capitalism and of democratic politics in the US and the UK. We suggest in this paper that the differences may be as illuminating as the similarities. In the early nineteenth century, the political institutions of the UK and the US had many points in common..." Link