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Striking Deals: Concertation in the Reform of Continental European Welfare States

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Ebbinghaus,  Bernhard
Regimewettbewerb und Integration in den industriellen Beziehungen, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Hassel,  Anke
Regimewettbewerb und Integration in den industriellen Beziehungen, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Ebbinghaus, B., & Hassel, A. (2000). Striking Deals: Concertation in the Reform of Continental European Welfare States. Journal of European Public Policy, 7(1), 44-62. doi:10.1080/135017600343269.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0012-55D1-0
Abstract
The reform of the welfare state entails changes in interdependent policy fields stretching from social policies to employment and wage policies. These linked
policy fields are often governed by varying sets of corporate actors and involve different decision-making procedures. Adaptation in one policy field is often unco-ordinated with other policies, and can work at cross-purposes, produce negative externalities, or fail owing to the lack of supporting conditions. The article has two objectives. First, it argues that the renewed emergence of tripartite concertation is due to the need to co-ordinate
policies across policy fields. Second, it evaluates the institutional factors which have facilitated concertation in some cases, but not in others. Using a similar country design, the article compares four continental European countries with similar reform pressures but different reform trajectories: France, Germany, Italy and the Netherlands.