Participation in Public Policy-Making

The Role of Trade Unions and Employers' Associations

Tiziano Treu

• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9783110129137
• eBook ISBN:
  9783110858709
• Topic: Economics
• Subtopic: Economic Theory
• Index: Economics

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Table of contents

• 1. Tripartite Social Policy-Making: An Overview
• 1.1 Content and Purpose of a Comparative Analysis
• 1.2 The Factors Undermining Concertative Tripartite Policy-Making in the Eighties
• 1.3 Their Uneven Impact on Different Industrial Relations Systems: Centralization, Institutionalization, Unionization
• 1.4 The Attitudes of the Actors of Industrial Relations Towards Concentration
• 1.5 The Differentiation of Concertative Policy-Making and Levels
• 1.6 Problems and Alternatives
• 1.7 Tripartite Policy-Making and Regional Integration of Industrial Relations
• 1.8 Concluding Remarks
• 2. Industrial Relations and Economic Performance
• 2.1 Introduction
• 2.2 Corporatism and Economic Performance: A Review of the Most Recent Literature
• 2.3 Corporatism and Performance: The Empirical Evidence
• 2.4 Which Model for the European Countries?
• 3. International Pressures on Industrial Relations: Macroeconomics and Social Concertation
• 3.1 Three Sets of Economic Influences
• 3.2 A Simple Macro Approach to Wage and Price Setting
• 3.3 Financial Influences
• 3.4 Technological Change
• 3.5 Interpreting Diverse International Reactions
• 3.6 Implications for Macro Performance
• 3.7 Social Concertation for Micro Goals
• 4. Economic Flexibility and Social Solidarity
• 4.1 “Disorganised Capitalism” and Microcorporatism
• 4.2 Can Economic Flexibility be a Source of Solidarity?
• 4.3 Interest-Based Solidarity
• 4.4 Non Class-Based Solidarity: New Divisions and Old Social Identities
• 5. From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism: European Interest Politics and the Single Market
• 5.1 Organized Interest and Regional Integration
• 5.2 The Failure of Euro-Corporatism
• 5.3 Corporatism, the Nation-State, and De-Regulation of European Economies
• 5.4 The European Community: A New Type of Non-State
• 5.5 The Future of European Interest Politics
• 6. Weaknesses of Pluralism in Latin America – What are the Prospects for Social Concertation?
• 6.1 The “Story” of Pluralism
• 6.2 A Gap in the “Story”
• 6.3 Pluralism or Populism?
• 6.4 Possibilities of Associative Control
• 6.5 The “Story” and its Future
• 7. Social Concertation in Mexico
• 7.1 The Historical Legacy
• 7.2 Social Concertation in the Eighties
• 7.3 Conclusion
• 8 European Labor Relations and the Prospects of Tripartism
• 8.1 The Nature of European Labor Relations
• 8.2 Three Parties and Three Levels at Work
• 8.3 Tripartism in the Three Models of Labor Relations
• 8.4 Tripartism in the Northern-European Model
• 8.5 Tripartism in the Southern-European and British Models of Labor Relations
• 8.6 The European Community
• 9. Macroeconomic Policies and Collective Bargaining in Ireland
• 9.1 Labour Costs and the Economy
• 9.2 Employment and Inflation
• 9.3 International Influences
• 9.4 National Policy Approach 1977 – 1987
• 9.5 Programme for National Recovery 1987 – 1990
• 9.6 Conclusions
• 10. Social Concertation in Australian Industrial Relations
• 10.1 Introduction
• 10.2 Background to Social Concertation in Australia
• 10.3 New Challenges to Social Concertation
• 10.4 Attitudes and Policies of the Actors
• 10.5 The Form of Concertation
• 10.6 The Levels of Concertation
• 10.7 Objectives and Outcomes
• 10.8 Conclusions
• 11. For a New Income Policy – Growth, Prices and Wages in the Italian Model
• 11.1 Premise: Income Policy as a Cooperative Game
• 11.2 The Features of Today’s Italian Model
• 11.3 Wage Reform and the Agreement of 26 January 1989
• 11.4 For a New Income policy
• 11.5 Conclusion: Two Principle of Reform
• 12. Social Concertation in Latin America
• 12.1 Latin American Experiences
• 12.2 Latin American Perspectives
• 13. The Demise of Concerted Practices and the Negotiated Economy in Sweden
• 13.1 Introduction – The Idea of a Negotiated Economy and Concerted Practices
• 13.2 Business and Politics in Sweden
• 13.3 Reorganizing the Negotiated Economy in Selected Policy Areas
• 13.4 The Problems Facing the Negotiated Economy in Sweden
• 13.5 Conclusions
• 14. Structural Adaptation of the Japanese Economy and Labour Market
• 14.1 Introduction
• 14.2 Economic Fluctuations and the Effective Adaptation of the Japanese Economy: An International Comparison
• 14.3 A Review of the Experiences of the Japanese Economy in the Process of Adaptation
• 14.4 Flexible Adaptation and Structural Rigidity
• 14.5 Remaining Structural Issues
• 14.6 Implications for Tripartism
• Notes on Contributors