This book shows that partisanship and electoral politics play a role in the selection of policies to generate growth and competitiveness.

1. Introduction; 2. Political parties and the structural conditions of the economy; 3. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (I). Public investment and the formation of human capital; 4. Supply-side economic strategies in a comparative perspective (II). The public business sector and tax strategies; 5. The social democratic project: macroeconomic stability and state intervention in Spain; 6. The political and electoral dimensions of the PSOE's economic strategy; 7. Turning around the postwar consensus: defining a new economic framework in Britain; 8. The political and electoral dimensions of the conservative economic strategy; 9. Political parties, electoral coalitions, and domestic institutions; 10. Conclusion.