Twentieth-century power equalization resulted from collective action and policy inventions

Evidence

However, through its focus on distributive strife and the relations of power among actors, the power resources approach can be invaluable in our attempts to understand the causes and consequences of economic globalization. As noted above, this approach assumes that, in the Western countries, relations of power between major societal actors are shifting, not stable. During the first three-quarters of the twentieth century - although with significant variation between countries and over time - there was a trend towards decreasing inequalities in the distribution of power within the Western countries. Of course, this decreasing inequality did not reflect immutable laws, but was, instead, the outcome of factors such as changing possibilities for collective action within the labour force, destabilization following the two world wars, institutional structures, and policy inventions. — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface, 23

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s plan to pair Korpi’s power-resource measures of real control with Gilens & Page’s influence measures. — connects to: Digital-era protest inverts the cost-benefit logic of nineteenth-century collective action. — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism, 760; Inequality trends result from shifting collective action capacity, not fixed laws. — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface:…, 24; Mass politics traded individual agency for collective power through delegation — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics: Extreme Politicization…, 118

Broader Connections

• Inequality trends result from shifting collective action capacity, not fixed laws. #corroborates (0.85) — Walter Korpi, The Iceberg of Power below the Surface, 24
• Digital-era protest inverts the cost-benefit logic of nineteenth-century collective action. #complicates (0.78) — Yanis Varoufakis, Technofeudalism, 760
• Mass politics traded individual agency for collective power through delegation #qualifies (0.74) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 118