C Crouch
Biographic Data
| ID | 55423 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C Crouch |
| GIVEN NAMES | C |
| FAMILY NAME | Crouch |
| SIGNATURE | CROUCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7222-8456 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 132 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1017 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 132 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 16 |
The State, Capital and Liberal Democracy
It is remarkable to what extent the recent spread of interest in the state has led to the elaboration of social theory solely within the Marxist tradition. There have been writings on the subject from a range of other positions, some of which are discussed below, but little attempt at systematic theory. It is particularly strange that so little has emerged from the American pluralist tradition of political science, which has for so long dominated…
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation
Starting from David Marquand's personal conflicts between loyalty to values and to a political party, this article explores more general examples in Marquand's writings of clashes between commitment to values and finding appropriate organisational forms in which these can be embedded. Attention centres on the problems of moving from the solidarity of small community groups to impersonal units—nation‐states and beyond—and on finding appropriate or…
The Intellectual and Political Legacy of David Marquand
This article introduces a special issue of The Political Quarterly , which celebrates the life and work of David Marquand. The articles in this collection concentrate on historiography, the tension between liberalism and socialism, political economy, communitarianism, the tension between loyalty to organisations and to values, as well as Marquand's contribution to practical politics
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party
MANY CONSERVATIVES deny the importance of climate change—or at least sabotage most measures seriously to confront it—while committing themselves to abolishing inheritance taxes, so that they can maintain their estates intact for the future. A future that they are content to see rendered uninhabitable. What is the point of ensuring the wealth of heirs while not caring about the state of the world in which they will have to live? Climate change is …
Reflections on the Covid moment and life beyond neoliberalism
The COVID pandemic has demonstrated the weakness of neoliberalism by showing the importance of public services, workers’ need for security, and a heightened awareness of collective interdependence. Economic theory recognises the deficiencies of depending on market forces by accepting certain grounds for public intervention, including public and collective goods and negative externalities. Acceptance of the human contribution to climate change has…
The sharks surrounding the NHS
Rescaling education policy
Governments worldwide have sought to introduce greater choice and competition as mechanisms to improve the quality of education provision and outcomes. However, there is considerable cross-national variation in education policy, particularly regarding the role of local government. To explain such differences, this article focuses on recent reforms in compulsory education in England and Sweden. It shows that although governments in both countries …
The Economic Geography of Xenophobic Populism
The current rise of xenophobic populism has a distinct geography. With some exceptions it tends to be concentrated in regions that are outside the main growth activities of the modern economy. Attention has focused on old manufacturing and mining areas in decline, and therefore with relatively poor, working-class populations. However, voting for rightwing populist parties is also strong in certain prosperous areas, which despite their relative we…
Low wages? Just borrow and carry on consuming
Will the Gig Economy Prevail
Increasingly, employees are being falsely treated as ‘self-employed’. This phenomenon – the ‘gig economy’ – is seen as the inevitable shape of things to come. In this book, Colin Crouch takes a step back and questions this logic. He shows how the idea of an employee – a stable status that involves a bundle of rights – has maintained a curious persistence. Examining the ways companies are attacking these rights, from proffering temporary work to i…
La dette souveraine
Depuis la crise de 2008, la question de la dette publique s'est imposée sur le devant de la scène politique. Loin d'être réductible à une question de bonne gestion financière, la dette, dans sa forme contemporaine, reconfigure profondément les rapports entre l'État et ses citoyens et va jusqu'à mettre en question la souveraineté de l'État-nation. À partir de l'analyse de la crise de la démocratie engendrée par l'explosion de la dette publique pro…
An Occasion for Celebration; but Global Worries Lie Ahead
Ideas developed by the social democratic left have been brought together in Prosperity and Justice . Contributors from a wide spectrum of backgrounds have contributed to a new post neoliberal consensus. More attention needs to be paid to the global level of policy making. International capacity to act is declining just as the need for it grows. Political movements seeking to reassert nationalism against global collaboration are growing. Economic …
Post‐Democracy and Populism
BRITISH DEMOCRACY reached an ugly moment on 3 November 2016, when the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, the country's leading press representatives of conservative opinion, devoted their front pages to displaying photographs of three judges of the Supreme Court under the banner headlines, respectively, 'Enemies of the people' and 'The judges vs the people'.The judges' offence had been to rule that Parliament had a right to have certain votes on the…
Social Investment, Social Democracy, Neoliberalism, and Xenophobia
The first social investment welfare state (SIWS) strategy in the 1990s marked a constructive compromise between social democracy and neoliberalism, but it left too many social democratic needs unfulfilled. But any attempt at its renegotiation must deal with the fact that neoliberals today are more aggressive than in the late 1990s. However, the rise of xenophobic populism and its threat to the neoliberal project might persuade policymakers of the…
Response to reviews of Governing Social Risks in Post-Crisis Europe
Society and Social Change in 21st Century Europe
An authoritative but accessible introduction to all key aspects of life across contemporary Europe focusing in particular on the dynamics of social change and similarities and differences between groups of European states and in contrast to other advanced industrial societies.
Neoliberalism, Nationalism and the Decline of Political Traditions
The three great Western political traditions (conservatism, liberalism, social democracy) incorporate three of the four possible combinations of the core political axes: traditional, unchanging authority versus the challenge of change, and egalitarianism versus inegalitarianism. The fourth possibility—egalitarian conservatism—has appeared in various guises, but has usually become submerged within the right, including its most authoritarian forms.…
Qu'adviendra-t-il après la disparition du keynésianisme privé
Democracy in neoliberalism
The present article is based upon a round table, in which
The Paradoxes of Privatisation and Public Service Outsourcing
The March Towards Post‐Democracy, Ten Years On
Events since I published my book Post‐democracy in 2004 suggest that democracy continues to decline in effectiveness in those parts of the world where it has been most strongly established. The global financial crisis, the consequent euro crisis, the likely shape of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ( TTIP ) and growing evidence of the political power of giant mass media corporations all suggest that the dominant forces in today's …
Flexibility and security
Aggregate and individual data are used to test the association between employment performance and different ways of reconciling flexibility and security in European labour markets. Particular use is made of statistics on individuals’ labour market transitions as revealed by national labour force surveys. The article compares the performance of three basic forms of labour market institutions: the uncoordinated liberal, or neoliberal one; flexisecu…
Making Capitalism Fit For Society
163 9 A Feasible Prospectus? 175 Index 193
Welfare State Regimes and Industrial Relations Systems
Ethics and markets
Catholicism, Christian democracy and reformed capitalism, Jonathan Boswell market-compatible co-operation - lessons from the German model, Colin Crouch the Japanese model of co-operative capitalism, Ronald Dore Whither global capitalism?, Will Hutton the moral boundaries of the market, Russell Keat human resources and human dignity, Judith Marquand the informal politics of the European Community, Keith Middlemas the new politics of markets, David…
Privatised Keynesianism
There have now been two successive policy regimes since the Second World War that have temporarily succeeded in reconciling the uncertainties and instabilities of a capitalist economy with democracy's need for stability for people's lives and capitalism's own need for confident mass consumers. The first of these was the system of public demand management generally known as Keynesianism. The second was not, as has often been thought, a neo-liberal…
Industrial Relations and European State Traditions
For more than a century of development, the industrial relations systems of Western European countries grew in very diverse and changing ways. The forms they adopted can be mapped against a set of basic types, and this study moves between historical detail and theoretical typology in order to capture the complexity of that mapping. The book traces the development of trade unions, organized employers, the state's role, and patterns of industrial c…
Dialogue on 'Institutional complementarity and political economy
Martin Höpner's paper was written to structure discussions at a workshop of the 'Complementarity Project', which was held in Paris, 26-27 September 2003. The project was organized by Bruno Amable and Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Martin Höpner and Wolfgang Streeck. The subject of the workshop was the complementarity, real or imagined, of financial markets and industrial relations in present-day 'varieties of capitalism'. Apart from the organizers, …
Regional and sectoral varieties of capitalism
This study seeks to go beneath the generalizations that constitute characterizations of national economies in order to examine local and sectoral diversity - in particular, forms of capitalist organization at the level of localized sectors. It reports on the findings of research based on detailed case histories of local economies in four different types of production: modernized craft manufacturing (furniture), mass production (motor vehicles), h…
Models of capitalism
That capitalist economies might take diverse forms has been long recognised by some scholars.Sometimes this diversity has been seen as a matter of evolutionary development.This was true of Max Weber's idea---type approach, that of the advocates of postwar modernisation theory, and of those who followed Antonio Gramsci's identification of a Fordist phase of capitalism that was deemed to succeed the classic free---market form.This last idea flouris…
Breaking the Path of Institutional Development? Alternatives to the New Determinism
The concept of path dependence is being used in highly deterministic ways in neo-institutionalist analysis, so that studies using this framework have dif.culty in accounting for, or predicting, change. However, the original Polya urn model from which pathdependence theory draws predicts that alternative paths will be possible. It can then be argued that actors will be able to use these when they perceive a need to change. This article seeks to ca…
Cities as national champions
As governments, committed to neo-liberalism but still committed to pursuing national economic success, seek for policy approaches that evade international competition law, they may turn to favouring national champion cities, usually but not always capital cities. This usually also favours particular industries and firms, but only indirectly. This is not the same as policies for favouring backward or declining regions, as the champions selected ar…
What Will Follow the Demise of Privatised Keynesianism
There have now been two successive policy regimes since World War II that have temporarily succeeded in reconciling the uncertainties and instabilities of a capitalist economy with democracy’s need for stability for people’s lives and capitalism’s own need for confident mass consumers. The first of these was the system of public demand management generally known as Keynesianism. The second was not, as has often been thought, a neo-liberal turn to…
The Terms of the Neo‐Liberal Consensus
Models of Capitalism
Preface. 1. Capitalist Models and Economic Growth. Part I: Capitalist Models: The Arguments: . 2. Liberal Capitalism: Retreat and Revival?. 3. 'Trust-Based' Capitalism: Revival and Retreat. Part II: Capitalist Models: The Evidence: . 4. The Power of Organized Labour. 5. Education, Training and Culture. 6. The Organization of Capital in the Pursuit of Growth. 7. The State as an Element in the Growth Equation. Part III: Conclusion: . 8. Capitalist …
Models of Capitalism
Pluralism and the New Corporatism
The March Towards Post‐Democracy, Ten Years On
Events since I published my book Post‐democracy in 2004 suggest that democracy continues to decline in effectiveness in those parts of the world where it has been most strongly established. The global financial crisis, the consequent euro crisis, the likely shape of a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ( TTIP ) and growing evidence of the political power of giant mass media corporations all suggest that the dominant forces in today's …
Why Politics Matters
Post‐Democracy and Populism
BRITISH DEMOCRACY reached an ugly moment on 3 November 2016, when the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph, the country's leading press representatives of conservative opinion, devoted their front pages to displaying photographs of three judges of the Supreme Court under the banner headlines, respectively, 'Enemies of the people' and 'The judges vs the people'.The judges' offence had been to rule that Parliament had a right to have certain votes on the…
The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe since 1968
Neoliberalism, Nationalism and the Decline of Political Traditions
The three great Western political traditions (conservatism, liberalism, social democracy) incorporate three of the four possible combinations of the core political axes: traditional, unchanging authority versus the challenge of change, and egalitarianism versus inegalitarianism. The fourth possibility—egalitarian conservatism—has appeared in various guises, but has usually become submerged within the right, including its most authoritarian forms.…
Change in European Societies since the 1970s
Sociology lags considerably behind political science in its comparative research on European societies, but enough material now exists to enable us to talk broadly about\nthe major changes that have taken place since the 1970s across western Europe, and also to some extent central and eastern Europe too. Attention is here concentrated on\nthose social trends that seem particularly salient for the study of politics, with occupational structure as …
Class Structure in Europe
Is there a typical European class structure? Have power patterns left any imprint in the European societies of today? Has the experience of socialist revolution in Eastern Europe created a distinctive social-structural pattern in that part of the continent? These are only a few of the questions taken up by the contributors to this collection of case studies and comparative research
Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis
European Modernity and beyond
Labour and the global financial crisis
At the 21st SASE Conference in Paris, in July 2009, a group of political economy and industrial relations scholars discussed whether the current legitimation crisis of financial capitalism could be viewed as a turning point for labour internationally. Following are an introduction by the panel organizer, Lucio Baccaro, and revised versions of presentations by Robert Boyer, Colin Crouch, Marino Regini, Paul Marginson, Richard Hyman and Rebecca Gum…
The Quiet Continent
Democracy in neoliberalism
The present article is based upon a round table, in which
The Paradoxes of Privatisation and Public Service Outsourcing
Social Stratification
Grande-Bretagne
Très récemment, les revendications des syndicats en Grande-Bretagne et les résultats des négociations de salaires se sont situés à un niveau très élevé par rapport aux périodes antérieures. L'auteur examine ces revendications dans le cadre de l'évolution du contexte des relations industrielles, et montre en quoi elles peuvent être interprétées comme une réponse classique à des initiatives patronales et où réside leur nouveauté
Race and Slavery in the Western Hemisphere
Stress and Contradiction in Modern Capitalism
Class in a Capitalist Society
The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe since 1968
Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis
The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968, vols. 1 and 2
The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968. Vol. I
Journal Article The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968. Vol. 1: National Studies. Vol. 2: Comparative Analyses. Get access The Resurgence of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968. Vol. 1: National Studies. Vol. 2: Comparative Analyses. Edited by COLIN CROUCH and ALESSANDRO PIZZORNO. (London: Macmillan, 1978. Pp. xxiv + 349 and xxi + 334. £15.00 each volume.) V. L. Allen V. L. Allen University of Leeds Search for other…
The Resurgency of Class Conflict in Western Europe Since 1968, Volume I
La politique dans les relations industrielles
There is an increasing tendency for governments to try to involve union leadership in relations with themselves : what happens then to unions ? C. Crouch distinguishes two main types of union goals : money goals, and participation goals. In theory, the main union actors : national leadership, shop floor organisation and individual workers have different interests in these potential goals ; the capacity of unions to act in the political bargaining…
Class Conflict and the Industrial Relations Crisis
Varieties of trade union weakness
Dictatorship and Political Dissent
State and Economy in Contemporary Capitalism
Shorter Notices
New Thinking on Pluralism
Pluralism and the New Corporatism
Structure and Change in Modern Britain
Class
Corporatism
The Socialist Case for a Centre‐left Coalition
Alienation and Authenticity
Corporatism in Industrial Relations
When classifying industrial relations systems in terms of corporatist theory, it is useful to think of a continuum, starting at one extreme with contestative relations, moving through pluralist bargaining and bargained corporatism, and ending at authoritarian corporatism. Elsewhere (Crouch, 1983b) I have defined the poles of this continuum in terms of the role of representatives being, respectively, purely representative and purely disciplinary. …
Exit and Voice in the Future of the Welfare State
THE ANTITHESIS BETWEEN INDIVIDUALISM AND COLLECTIVISM which dominates political discussion of the welfare state and many other political issues confuses more than it illuminates. First, the individual of market liberal theory is a curious entity, existin solely as a disembodied unit in market transactions. Secondly, the ‘choice’ which is the means by which units in the liberal system express their freedom is highly constrained: they choose solely…
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