Renegotiating the welfare state : flexible adjustment through corporatist concertation / edited by Frans van Waarden and Gerhard Lehmbruch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lehmbruch, Gerhard.

Contributor:

Waarden, Frans van, 1950-

Lehmbruch, Gerhard.

Series:

Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 2.

Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Welfare state.

Comparative government.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (321 p.)

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 o

Contents:

Cover; Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Contributors; Acknowledgements; Part I Introduction; 1 Renegotiating the welfare state through corporatist concertation: An introduction; Part II Countries with traditions of corporatist concertation; 2 The resurgence of Dutch corporatist policy coordination in an age of globalization; 3 The societal and historical embeddedness of Dutch corporatism; 4 Austrian social partnership: Just a midlife crisis?

5 Nordic corporatism and welfare state reforms: Denmark and Sweden compared6 Welfare state adjustment between consensual and adversarial politics: The institutional context of reform in Germany; 7 Renegotiating the Swiss welfare state; Part III Countries without historical corporatist traditions; 8 'Bargaining Celtic style': The global economy and negotiated governance in Ireland; 9 The negotiator as auctioneer: Wage centralization and wage flexibility: a comparison of corporatist and non-corporatist countries; Part IV European corporatism?

10 Renegotiating social and labour policies in the European multi-level system: Any role for corporatist patterns?11 The renaissance of national corporatism: Unintended side-effect of European economic and monetary union, or calculated response to the absence of European social policy?; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

9781134594474

113459447X

9780203380352

0203380355

9781280022982

1280022981

9781134594481

1134594488

OCLC:

252869794