Title:EMU and Labor Market Institutions in Europe - the Rise and Fall of National Social Pacts
Author(s):HANCKE, Bob; RHODES, MartinDate:2005Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:During the 1990s, wage setting increasingly became coordinated in many Member States of the European Union (EU), often through new arrangements involving broad encompassing social pacts between employers, trade unions, and ...
Title:Trade-Offs and Veto Players: Reforming Pensions in France and Italy
Author(s):RHODES, Martin; NATALI, DavidDate:2004Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:France, like other European countries, has faced growing challenges to its welfare state. Pensions in particular have been at the core of the public debate on recasting its "social model". This article analyses reform ...
Title:Desperately Seeking A Solution: Social Democracy, Thatcherism and the 'Third Way' in British Welfare
Author(s):RHODES, MartinDate:2000Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:New Labour's 'Third Way' and its innovations in employment and social policy can only be understood against the background of welfare state construction in Britain, the problems faced by all post-war governments in welfare ...
Title:Capital Unbound? the Transformation of European Corporate Governance
Author(s):RHODES, Martin; VAN APELDOORN, BastiaanDate:1998Type of Publication:ArticleAbstract:This article represents a first attempt to analyse the forces at work in the transformation of European corporate space, at both the national and supranational levels. In doing so, it consciously combines a comparative ...