A commentary for Nikolaos Zahariadis's "policy networks, elections, and state subsidies".

sum of two units perennial concerns of comparative political economy appropriate in Nikos Zahariadis's inquiry of industrial subsidies--that for the impact of economic opennes upon government spending, and that for the fiscal issues of political competition. More specifically, Zahariadis's inquiry takes us toward a more dynamic understanding of the incidence of subsidies in democratic polities by dint of considering how democratic politics and unclose market economics interact. Subsidies, Zahariadis posits, are not simply the production of electoral competition; nor are they a direct result of rising import ...