Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States
I use the case of the transportation network company Uber as a lens to explore the comparative politics of the platform economy in Europe and the United States. Within the advanced capitalist world, different countries have responded in very different ways to this new service, from welcome embrace a...
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| author | Thelen, Kathleen |
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| description | I use the case of the transportation network company Uber as a lens to explore the comparative politics of the platform economy in Europe and the United States. Within the advanced capitalist world, different countries have responded in very different ways to this new service, from welcome embrace and accommodating regulatory adjustments to complete rejection and legal bans. I analyze Uber’s arrival and reception in the United States, Germany, and Sweden, documenting three very different responses to this disruptive new actor. I show that conflicts over Uber centered on different issues in the three countries. These differences were consequential because the specific regulatory “flashpoints”that Uber provoked mobilized different actors, inspired the formation of different coalitions, and shaped the terms on which conflicts over Uber were framed and fought. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1248842022-09-30T17:30:04Z Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States Thelen, Kathleen Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Political Science I use the case of the transportation network company Uber as a lens to explore the comparative politics of the platform economy in Europe and the United States. Within the advanced capitalist world, different countries have responded in very different ways to this new service, from welcome embrace and accommodating regulatory adjustments to complete rejection and legal bans. I analyze Uber’s arrival and reception in the United States, Germany, and Sweden, documenting three very different responses to this disruptive new actor. I show that conflicts over Uber centered on different issues in the three countries. These differences were consequential because the specific regulatory “flashpoints”that Uber provoked mobilized different actors, inspired the formation of different coalitions, and shaped the terms on which conflicts over Uber were framed and fought. 2020-04-27T17:42:36Z 2020-04-27T17:42:36Z 2018-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 1537-5927 1541-0986 https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/124884 Thelen, Kathleen. "Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States." Perspectives on Politics 16, 4 (November 2018): 938-953 © American Political Science Association 2018 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1537592718001081 Perspectives on Politics Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/ application/pdf Cambridge University Press (CUP) Prof. Thelen |
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| title | Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States |
| title_full | Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States |
| title_fullStr | Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States |
| title_full_unstemmed | Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States |
| title_short | Regulating Uber: The Politics of the Platform Economy in Europe and the United States |
| title_sort | regulating uber the politics of the platform economy in europe and the united states |
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