Of fields and of factories: the political construction of comparative advantage in French wine and German core manufacturing

Elizabeth Carter

Review of Social Economy, 2024, vol. 82, issue 4, 661-683

Abstract: This article explores state-association dynamics in large quality sectors, focusing specifically on the institutionalization of power across production networks. I demonstrate how incentives for high value-added production emerge when normally competitive production actors organize to solve their problems and speak together with one voice to shape policy through a bureaucratically powerful state apparatus. Despite historical differences in both state and associational structures, the cases of French wine and German core manufacturing share three essential characteristics: producer structures that cultivate consensus; deliberate historical action to ‘tame’ or reign in a powerful state; quasi-public institutions playing ‘honest broker’ between organized interests and the state. The consequence of these structures is depoliticized (überparteilich) but informed public policy, which protect decentralized collaborative value-enhancing production structures.

Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1080/00346764.2022.2129086

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