The politics of welfare state reform in continental europe: modernization in hard times
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
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In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
In: Political science research and methods: PSRM, Band 8, Heft 2, S. 380-385
ISSN: 2049-8489
AbstractThe growing research on post-industrial labor market inequality bears a strong—yet widely misunderstood—relevance for the literature on electoral realignment. In this contribution, I contend that the assumption of "labor market outsiders" being equal to "globalization/modernization losers" is largely mistaken. Rather, atypical work and unemployment is most widespread among service workers, whose primary electoral choice is to abstain from voting. This implies that the ongoing reconfiguration of European party systems—through the rise of right-wing populist parties—is driven by skilled and routine workers in the manufacturing sector (the traditional "insiders"). Hence, the rise of right-wing populist parties reflects a political mobilization of the formerly well-protected industrial working class, rather than of labor market outsiders.
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 25, Heft 6, S. 862-877
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics
"Welfare State Research and Comparative Political Economy" published on by Oxford University Press.
In: Swiss political science review: SPSR = Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft : SZPW = Revue suisse de science politique : RSSP, Band 23, Heft 1, S. 97-100
ISSN: 1662-6370
In: West European politics, Band 36, Heft 1, S. 284-286
ISSN: 1743-9655
In: The Politics of the New Welfare State, S. 111-132
In: French politics, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 447-453
ISSN: 1476-3427
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 223-256
ISSN: 1475-6765
AbstractThis article explains why the power of organised labour in the reform of Swiss and German pension regimes has faded over the last three decades. Postindustrialisation has brought two different sets of reform issues onto the pension policy agendas of Continental European welfare states: retrenchment of existing benefit levels, and the pension coverage of new, postindustrial social risk groups. Recent pension reforms increasingly combine these two types of measures in encompassing policy packages –'modernising compromises'– in order to compensate for retrenchment with selective expansive reform elements. Continental trade unions attach a lower importance to postindustrial modernisation than do the left‐wing parties – notably the Social Democrats and the Green parties. Consequently, the distance between the labour movement and the left‐wing parties, as well as intra‐labour heterogeneity, increase and 'modernising compromises' tend to divide the left and to marginalise trade unions. The empirical analysis relies on coded actor positions from eight major pension reforms between 1972 and 2003.
In: French politics, Band 8, Heft 4, S. 447-454
ISSN: 1476-3419
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
"This book challenges existing theories of welfare state change by analyzing pension reforms in France, Germany, and Switzerland between 1970 and 2004. It explains why all three countries were able to adopt far-reaching reforms, adapting their pension regimes to both financial austerity and new social risks. In a radical departure from the neo-institutionalist emphasis on policy stability, the book argues that socio-structural change has led to a multidimensional pension reform agenda. A variety of cross-cutting lines of political conflict, emerging from the transition to a post-industrial economy, allowed governments to engage in strategies of political exchange and coalition-building, fostering broad cross-class coalitions in support of major reform packages. Methodologically, the book proposes a novel strategy to analyze lines of conflict, configurations of political actors, and coalitional dynamics over time. This strategy combines quantitative analyses of actor configurations based on coded policy positions with in-depth case studies"--Provided by publisher
In: European journal of political research: official journal of the European Consortium for Political Research, Band 49, Heft 2, S. 223-257
ISSN: 0304-4130
In: Cambridge studies in comparative politics
In: APSA 2009 Toronto Meeting Paper
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