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Social Pacts in Europe: Emergence, Evolution, and Institutionalization
Sabina Avdagic, Martin Rhodes, and Jelle Visser
Abstract
The result of a four-year long comparative research study centred at the European University Institute in Florence, Italy, and financed by the European Commission’s Sixth Framework Programme, this book presents the first full-length theoretical and comparative empirical study of new social pacts in Europe. Its aim is to bring the level of sophistication achieved in an earlier literature on neo-corporatism to the more contemporary phenomenon of ‘social pacting’. The book brings a wide range of complementary theories to bear on the emergence, evolution, and institutionalization of pacts, compare ... More
Keywords: Europe, social pacts, corporatism, economic adjustment, game theory, new institutionalism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2011 | Print ISBN-13: 9780199590742 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2011 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199590742.001.0001 |
Reviews
More by Martin Rhodes
- Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (2007)
- "Why EMU Is—or May Be—Good for European Welfare States" in European States and the Euro (2007)
- "The Political Economy of Social Pacts: ‘Competitive Corporatism’ and European Welfare Reform" in The New Politics of the Welfare State (2007)
- "Restructuring the British Welfare State: Between Domestic Constraints and Global Imperatives" in Welfare and Work in the Open Economy Volume II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges in Twelve Countries (2007)
- "Recasting European Welfare States" in Governing Europe (2007)
More by Jelle Visser
- "How Small Countries Negotiate Change Twenty-Five Years of Policy Adjustment in Austria, the Netherlands, and Belgium" in Welfare and Work in the Open Economy Volume II: Diverse Responses to Common Challenges in Twelve Countries (2011)
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- "Union Membership" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Wage Bargaining, Union Power, and Economic Integration" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Wider Dimensions of Unions' Presence" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Bargaining Structure and Macroeconomic Performance" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "The Future Prospects for Trade Unions in Europe" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Introduction" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Unions' Involvement in the Welfare State" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Unions and Pensions: Theory, Evidence, and Implications" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Learning from Welfare Reforms: The Case of Public Pensions" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Unions and Unemployment Insurance" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
- "Conclusions" in The Role of Unions in the Twenty-first Century (2011)
