Arbeitnehmerfragen

Arbeitnehmerfragen
Author: Patrick Pasture
Publisher:
Total Pages: 352
Release: 1992
Genre: Labor and laboring classes
ISBN:

Fighting for Partnership

Fighting for Partnership
Author: Lowell Turner
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 209
Release: 2018-05-31
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1501717170

West Germany from 1949 to 1990 was a story of virtually unparalleled political and economic success. This economic miracle incorporated a well-functioning political democracy, expanded to include a "social partnership" system of economic representation. Then the Wall came down. Economic crisis in the East—industrial collapse, massive layoffs, a demoralized workforce—triggered gloomy predictions. Was this the beginning of the end for the widely admired "German model"? Lowell Turner has extensively researched the German transformation in the 1990s. Indeed, in 1993 he was at the factory gates at Siemens in Rostock for the first major strike in post-Cold War eastern Germany. In that strike, and in a series of other incisively analyzed workplace and job developments in eastern Germany, he shows the remarkable resilience and flexibility of the German social partnership and the contribution of its institutions to unification. His controversial and, to some, radical findings will stimulate debate at home and abroad.

Germany

Germany
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 38
Release: 2005
Genre: Employees
ISBN:

Social Democracy and Labour Market Policy

Social Democracy and Labour Market Policy
Author: Knut Roder
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 315
Release: 2003-12-08
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1134423055

This topical study reflects on problems faced by social democratic parties in government when espousing policies of severe pragmatism and fiscal prudence, and provides a perspective to both parties' changes in labour market policies.

Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments

Intra-Party Politics and Coalition Governments
Author: Daniela Giannetti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2008-10-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134042876

This book explores how intra-party politics affects government formation and termination in parliamentary systems, where the norm is the formation of coalition governments. The authors look beyond party cohesion and discipline in parliamentary democracies to take a broader view, assuming a diversity of preferences among party members and then exploring the incentives that give rise to coordinated party behaviour at the electoral, legislative and executive levels. The chapters in this book share a common analytical framework, confronting theoretical models of government formation with empirical data, some drawn from cross-national analyses and others from theoretically structured case studies. A distinctive feature of the book is that it explores the impact of intra-party politics at different levels of government: national, local and EU. This offers the opportunity to investigate existing theories of coalition formation in new political settings. Finally, the book offers a range of innovative methods for investigating intra-party politics which, for example, creates a need to estimate the policy positions of individual politicians inside political parties. This book will be of interest to political scientists, especially scholars involved in research on political parties, parliamentary systems, coalition formation and legislative behaviour, multilevel governance, European and EU politics.

The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany

The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Author: Christof Schiller
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2016-04-20
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1317227417

How can we best analyse contemporary welfare state change? And how can we explain and understand the politics of it? This book contributes to these questions both empirically and theoretically by concentrating on one of the least likely cases for welfare state transformation in Europe. It analyzes in detail how and why institutional change has taken Germany’s welfare state from a conservative towards a new work-first regime. Christof Schiller introduces a novel analytical framework to make sense of the politics of welfare state transformation by providing the missing link: the capacity of the core executive over time. Examining the policy making process in labour market policy in the period between 1980 and 2010, he identifies three different policy making episodes and analyses their interaction with developments and changes in such policy areas as pension policy, family policy, labour law, tax policy and social assistance. The book advances existing efforts aimed at conceptualizing and measuring welfare state change by proposing a clear-cut conceptualization of social policy regime change and introduces a comprehensive analysis of the transformation of the welfare-work nexus between 1980 and 2010 in Germany. This book will be of interest to students and scholars of social policy, comparative welfare state reform, welfare politics, government, governance, public policy, German politics, European politics, political economy, sociology and history.

Germany

Germany
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2005
Genre: Labor supply
ISBN: