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Language(s):
eng - English
Dates:
2013
Publication Status:
Issued
Pages:
258
Publishing info:
Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press
Table of Contents:
List of Tables and Figures
List of Abbreviations
Acknowledgements
1 The Strange Survival of Social Concertation in Times of Austerity
1 The Puzzle
2 The Argument in Brief
3 Outline of the Book
2 Social Concertation as a Political Strategy
1 Gone with the Wind? Th e Transformations of Corporatism in Europe
2 Describing and Explaining Social Concertation
3 A Theory of Political Choice for Social Concertation
4 Summary
3 European Integration, Domestic Politics and Social Concertation
1 Internationalisation and Social Concertation: A Prelude
2 The Dynamic of Supranational Market-Making in the EU
3 The Contested Impact of European Integration on Social Concertation
4 European Integration and the Politics of Social Concertation
5 Summary
4 Methods and Cases
1 Measuring Social Concertation
2 Explaining Social Concertation: Process-Tracing
3 Explaining Social Concertation: Comparing Cases
4 Strategies of Data Collection
5 Summary
5 The Context of Social Concertation in Switzerland and Austria
1 Switzerland: Veto Points, Right-Wing Dominance and the Emergence of the Swiss People’s Party
2 Austria: Corporatism and the Exhaustion of “Proporz”
3 Summary
6 Social Concertation and Cross-Border Labour Mobility
1 Cross-Border Labour Mobility and EU Enlargement
2 Austria: Cross-Class Consensus Under a Common Threat
3 Switzerland: The Strong Weapons of the Weak
4 Summary
7 Social Concertation and Unemployment Policy Reforms
1 The Politics of Unemployment Policy
2 Austria: The Limits of Unilateral Policymaking
3 Switzerland: Welfare State Retrenchment and the Radical Right-Wing
Push
4 Summary
8 Synthesis and Comparative Outlook
1 Assessing Explanatory Variables
2 Limitations and Comparative Evidence
3 Conclusion: Securing Consent in Times of Austerity
List of Interviews
Notes
References
Index
Rev. Type:
-
Identifiers:
ISBN: 978-90-8964-395-7
ISBN: 978-90-4851-299-7
ISBN: 978-90-4851-562-2
Degree:
-
