Date: 2011
Type: Working Paper
What's Left to Trade: the Changing Logic of Corporatist Policymaking in Europe
Working Paper, EUI MWP, 2011/14
AFONSO, Alexandre, What's Left to Trade: the Changing Logic of Corporatist Policymaking in Europe, EUI MWP, 2011/14 - https://hdl.handle.net/1814/18139
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This paper outlines evolutions in the underlying logic of corporatist policymaking in Western Europe. Starting from the discrepancy between the observable decline in the power of organised labour on the one hand, and the persistence of corporatist concertation as a mode of policymaking on the other, the paper outlines the remaining incentives for governments to involve trade unions and employers in policymaking. The paper shifts the focus from the traditional structural explanations of corporatist policymaking to political explanations emphasising political support, compliance and knowledge. The paper then outlines a few elements regarding the relationship between political and partisan configurations on corporatism.
Cadmus permanent link: https://hdl.handle.net/1814/18139
ISSN: 1830-7728
Series/Number: EUI MWP; 2011/14
Keyword(s): Neo-Corporatism Trade Unions Employers Policy-making Parties