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David Rueda is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their research is situated primarily within the social sciences, focusing on political science and international relations as well as strategy and management. The core topics of their work include social policy and reform studies, electoral systems and political participation, and political influence and corporate strategies.

Rueda has contributed to several recent publications, covering diverse aspects of political and social sciences. Notable papers include:

  • Insuring Against Hunger? Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposure to the Dutch Famine, 2021, SSRN Electronic Journal
  • When Parties Move to the Middle: The Role of Uncertainty, 2023, British Journal of Political Science
  • Insuring Against Hunger? The Long-Term Political Consequences of Exposure to the Dutch Famine, 2024, Journal of Historical Political Economy
  • Replication Data for: When Parties Move to the Middle: The Role of Uncertainty, 2022, Harvard Dataverse

Their research has been published in journals and venues that include the British Journal of Political Science, SSRN Electronic Journal, Journal of Historical Political Economy, and Harvard Dataverse.

Rueda frequently collaborates with a select group of scholars. These frequent coauthors are:

  • Johannes Lindvall
  • Haoyu Zhai
  • Raluca L. Pahontu
  • Gerda Hooijer

Their collaborations and work explore political behaviors, uncertainty in party politics, and the long-term political effects of socio-economic events such as famines. Topics such as social policy reforms and electoral participation commonly appear across their publications.

Best Publications

  • Social Democracy Inside Out: Partisanship and Labor Market Policy in Advanced Industrialized Democracies

    David Rueda

  • Insider–Outsider Politics in Industrialized Democracies: The Challenge to Social Democratic Parties

    David Rueda

  • Wage Inequality and Varieties of Capitalism

    David Rueda;Jonas Pontusson

  • Social Democracy Inside Out

    David Rueda

  • Social Democracy and Active Labour-Market Policies: Insiders, Outsiders and the Politics of Employment Promotion

    David Rueda

  • The Politics of Inequality: Voter Mobilization and Left Parties in Advanced Industrial States

    Jonas Pontusson;David Rueda

  • Comparative Political Economy of Wage Distribution: The Role of Partisanship and Labour Market Institutions

    Jonas Pontusson;David Rueda;Christopher R. Way

  • Social Democracy Constrained: Indirect Taxation in Industrialized Democracies

    Pablo Beramendi;David Rueda

  • Cheap Labor: The New Politics of “Bread and Roses” in Industrial Democracies

    Desmond King;David Rueda

  • The Insider-Outsider Dilemma

    Johannes Lindvall;David Rueda

  • Dualization, crisis and the welfare state

    David Rueda

  • The Externalities of Inequality: Fear of Crime and Preferences for Redistribution in Western Europe

    David Rueda;Daniel Stegmueller

  • Automation and the Welfare State: Technological Change as a Determinant of Redistribution Preferences:

    Stefan Thewissen;David Rueda

  • The Altruistic Rich? Inequality and Other-Regarding Preferences for Redistribution

    Matthew Dimick;David Rueda;Daniel Stegmueller

  • Left Government, Policy, and Corporatism: Explaining the Influence of Partisanship on Inequality

    David Rueda

  • Food Comes First, Then Morals: Redistribution Preferences, Parochial Altruism, and Immigration in Western Europe

    David Rueda

  • The Origins of Dualism

    David Rueda;Erik Wibbels;Melina Altamirano

  • Capital Mobility and Coalitional Politics: Authoritarian Regimes and Economic Adjustment in Southeast Asia

    Thomas B. Pepinsky

  • The State of the Welfare State: Unemployment, Labor Market Policy, and Inequality in the Age of Workfare

    David Rueda

  • Models of Other-Regarding Preferences, Inequality, and Redistribution

    Matthew Dimick;David Rueda;Daniel Stegmueller

  • Insider-Outsider Politics: Party Strategies and Political Behavior in Sweden

    Johannes Lindvall;David Rueda

  • Who Wants What?: Redistribution Preferences in Comparative Perspective

    David Rueda;Daniel Stegmueller

  • Insiders, Outsiders, and the Politics of Employment Promotion

    David Rueda

  • Labor market institutions and economic performance

    Irene Menendez;David Rueda

Frequent Co-Authors

Jonas Pontusson
Jonas Pontusson University of Geneva
Roger A. Barker
Roger A. Barker University of Cambridge
Raymond M. Duch
Raymond M. Duch University of Oxford
Andrew J. Oswald
Andrew J. Oswald University of Warwick
Sascha O. Becker
Sascha O. Becker University of Warwick
Nicholas Crafts
Nicholas Crafts University of Sussex
Desmond King
Desmond King University of Oxford
Erik Wibbels
Erik Wibbels Duke University
Pepper D. Culpepper
Pepper D. Culpepper University of Oxford

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