Renegotiating the Welfare State: Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation

by Lehmbruch,Gerhard

• ISBN13: 9780415223454
• ISBN10: 0415223458
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-07-29
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This comparative volume studies the experiences of a variety of countries in reforming their welfare states through corporatist concertation. It features contributions from highly respected academics from across Europe and includes a series of in-depth case studies of countries including Austria, Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, Germany, Switzerland and Ireland.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
List of contributors	ix
Acknowledgements	xi
PART I Introduction	1	(30)
1 Renegotiating the welfare state through corporatist concertation: an introduction	3	(28)
FRANS VAN WAARDEN
PART II Countries with traditions of corporatist concertation	31	(158)
2 The resurgence of Dutch corporatist policy coordination in an age of globalization	33	(37)
ANTON HEMERIJCK
3 The societal and historical embeddedness of Dutch corporatism	70	(27)
FRANS VAN WAARDEN
4 Austrian social partnership: just a midlife crisis?	97	(17)
BRIGITTE UNGER
5 Nordic corporatism and welfare state reforms: Denmark and Sweden compared	114	(28)
SVEN LOCHEM
6 Welfare state adjustment between consensual and adversarial politics: the institutional context of reform in Germany	142	(27)
GERHARD LEHMBRUCH
7 Renegotiating the Swiss welfare state	169	(20)
KLAUS ARMINGEON
PART III Countries without historical corporatist traditions	189	(62)
8 'Bargaining Celtic style': the global economy and negotiated governance in Ireland	191	(34)
GEORGE TAYLOR
9 The negotiator as auctioneer. Wage centralization and wage flexibility: a comparison of corporatist and non-corporatist countries	225	(26)
COEN TEULINGS
PART IV European corporatism?	251	(52)
10 Renegotiating social and labour policies in the European multi-level system: any role for corporatist patterns?	253	(26)
GERDA FALKNER
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?	279	(24)
JURGEN GROTE AND PHILLIPE SCHMITTER
Index	303