Active Labour Market Policy
Aggregate Shocks
associations
austrian
Austrian Social Partnership
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collective bargaining
Collective Labour Agreement
comparative welfare state reform
concertation
corporatist
Corporatist Concertation
Corporatist Patterns
Corporatist Policy Communities
Direct Democracy
EC Social Policy
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European social policy
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Gdp Ratio
GDP Sweden
IG Metall
industrial relations theory
Konzertierte Aktion
labour
labour market reform
Maastricht Social Agreement
market
moderation
National Level Agreements
Passive Welfare State
peak
Peak Associations
Select OECD Country
social
social partnership
Supply Side Corporatism
Swiss Welfare State
tripartite negotiations
wage
Welfare Reform
West Germany
Product details
- ISBN 9780415223454
- Weight: 589g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 05 Jun 2003
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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Why have some countries have been more successful in welfare state reform than others?
This book examines the experiences of various countries in reforming their welfare states through renegotiations between the state and peak associations of employers and employees. This corporatist concertation has been blamed for bringing about all the ills of the welfare state, but lately corporate institutions have learned from their bad performances, modified their structures and style of operation, and assumed responsibility for welfare state reform.
Consensual bargaining is back on the agenda of both policy makers and of social science. This topical volume with its internationally respected panel of contributors will appeal to all those interested in the welfare state and labour relations. It includes chapters focusing on the Netherlands, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland as well as a section looking at the role of corporatist concertation in the European Union.
Frans van Waarden is Professor of Public Policy and Urganization at Utrecht University. He has been a visiting scholar/fellow at Stanford University, the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies and the European University Institute in Florence.
Gerhard Lehmbruch is Emeritus Professor of Political Science at the University of Konstanz, Germany, and has been president of the German Political Science Association and vice-president of the International Political Science Association.
