Телеграм канал «Политическая теория и философия (Political theory and philosophy)»

Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson - Learning From Ricardo and Thompson: Machinery and Labor in the Early Industrial Revolution and in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

David Ricardo initially believed machinery would help workers but revised his opinion, likely based on the impact of automation in the textile industry. Despite cotton textiles becoming one of the largest sectors in the British economy, real wages for cotton weavers did not rise for decades. As E.P. Thompson emphasized, automation forced workers into unhealthy factories with close surveillance and little autonomy. Automation can increase wages, but only when accompanied by new tasks that raise the marginal productivity of labor and/or when there is sufficient additional hiring in complementary sectors. Wages are unlikely to rise when workers cannot push for their share of productivity growth. Today, artificial intelligence may boost average productivity, but it also may replace many workers while degrading job quality for those who remain employed. As in Ricardo's time, the impact of automation on workers today is more complex than an automatic linkage from higher productivity to better wages.

https://www.annualreviews.org/content/journals/10.1146/annurev-economics-091823-025129

А. Баранникова - По обе стороны Гибралтара

О книге «По ту сторону ориентализма. Ахмад ибн Касим аль-Хаджари между Европой и Северной Африкой»

Постколониальные исследователи ломают голову, как писать историю культурных посредников между метрополией и периферией, не превращая их в безмолвных информаторов или героев-одиночек. Литературоведу Умельбанин Жири удалось соблюсти баланс и реконструировать жизнь марроканского полиглота Ахмада ибн Касима аль-Хаджари увлекательно, но вместе с тем методологически честно.

https://gorky.media/reviews/po-obe-storony-gibraltara

Peter Mair - Party System Change. Approaches and Interpretations

This is the first full-length book to examine how we interpret evidence of change and stability in modern parties and party systems. Focusing primarily on processes of political adaptation and control, it also concerns how parties and party systems generate their own momentum and "freeze" themselves into place. Amid the widespread contemporary discussions of the challenge to modern democracy and the crisis of traditional forms of political representation, if offers a welcome emphasis on how party systems survive, and on how change, when it does occur, may be analyzed and understood.

Political Parties and Electoral Change. Party Responses to Electoral Markets

How have Europe's mainstream political parties responded to the long-term decline in voter loyalties? What are the consequences of this change in the electoral markets in which parties now operate? Popular disengagement, disaffection, and withdrawal on the one hand, and increasing popular support for protest parties on the other, have become the hallmarks of modern European politics. This book provides an excellent account of how political parties in Western Europe are perceiving and are responding to these contemporary challenges of electoral dealignment. Each chapter employs a common format to present and compare the changing strategies of established parties and party systems in Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, and Ireland. The result is an invaluable portrait of the changing electoral environment and how parties are interacting with each another and voters today. Political Parties and Electoral Change is essential reading for anybody seeking a deeper understanding of contemporary electoral politics and of the challenges facing west European party systems.

Adam Przeworski, John Sprague - Paper stones: a history of electoral socialism

This book analyzes the history of electoral socialism from 1890 to the mid-1980s in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Norway, and Sweden.