Igor Guardiancich
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 821630 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Igor Guardiancich |
| NOMBRES | Igor |
| APELLIDO | Guardiancich |
| FIRMA | GUARDIANCICH I |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Padua |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9255-0725 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 159 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2008 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
From sanctions to incentives
Whereas the EU has been effective in designing ex ante conditionality for accession and Euro adoption, it has struggled to influence domestic reforms once membership is secured. Soft coordination instruments, notably the European Semester, have therefore been regarded as weak. In response to the Covid-19 crisis, NextGenerationEU (NGEU) introduced an incentive-based model of conditionality, moving beyond the Semester’s ineffective sanctions. Using…
Ideas, business, and social policy
This article seeks to advance our understanding of how business organisations articulate ideas about welfare policy – an aspect that remains underexplored in existing research. It does so by focusing on the European Union (EU) level, where social dialogue initiatives have spread since the 1980s. It looks at the three cross-sectoral EU employers’ organisations (EEOs) – the Confederation of European Business (BusinessEurope), Services of General In…
The Fiscal Governance of the European Union
Tiziano Zgaga's The Fiscal Governance of the European Union: Overcoming the Stability Paradigm? (2025) provides a timely account of the evolution of EU fiscal governance from Maastricht to the post-pandemic era, covering both the 2024 reform of the Stability and Growth Pact (SGP) and the security-driven spending spree in 2025. The study's core question is whether EU fiscal governance remains anchored in a stability paradigm or whether successive …
Reform Agendas in National Recovery and Resilience Plans
This article examines the agency of national executives in shaping the reform agendas within the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Through a comparative analysis of NRRPs drafting in Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and an in‐depth longitudinal study of Italy, we argue that the partisan profile of national executives, to a significant extent, accounts for which reforms were incl…
Alignment and asymmetry
The European Union (EU) and its member states are a paradigmatic case of governance at multiple levels, whose interpretation and resolution of crises may or may not be aligned. This paper explores such alignment by perusing how the European Union’s NextGenerationEU (NGEU) plan and its centerpiece, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), contributed to shaping national crisis governance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the political d…
The post-socialist neoliberal agenda through the prism of Europeanization in social and labour market policy
In post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the European Commission acted as an advocate of social and labour market policy change, promoting an almost ideal-typical neoliberal agenda, whose central tenets were fiscal sustainability in pensions and internal devaluation in wage setting. Related country-specific recommendations and their routine reviews, however, show not only the Commission’s preferences in the two policy fields, but also …
Politiche dell'economia globale By Mattia Guidi and Arlo Poletti, Milano
Stronger conditionality for stronger compliance? Analysing the NGEU’s effect on the implementation of European semester recommendations
This study examines the capacity of the European Union (EU) to influence policy change in its member states by focusing on the impact of EU conditionality under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) introduced as part of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) package adopted in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on the evaluations of the implementation of the 2019–2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) before (2021) and after (2022–2024)…
From criticism to pragmatism? The impact of NGEU funding on party-based Euroscepticism in Italy
How do Euroskeptic parties adjust their rhetoric when the European Union expands its fiscal and redistributive role? We address this question by examining the impact of the next-generation EU (NGEU) program on parliamentary debates in Italy, the largest beneficiary of EU recovery funds. Drawing on an original dataset of over 700 hand-coded parliamentary statements covering 30 debates in the Italian Chamber of Deputies (2018–2024), we show that th…
Unemployment Benefits in the EU
Unemployment insurance is a major component of European welfare regimes, whereby each EU member state has its own distinctive scheme. Despite falling under national competence, the European Commission has exercised pressure over this policy area since the establishment of the European Employment Strategy. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, it stepped up its involvement through the European Semester, which went hand in hand with heig…
Energy and inflation crises in Romania and Slovenia
The 2021–2022 inflation crisis in the EU offers an opportunity to examine how diverse industrial relations systems respond to similar macroeconomic shocks. This article compares Romania and Slovenia, two post-communist countries whose industrial relations systems are poles apart. The expectation was that, in contrast to the enfeebled Romanian system, Slovenia would not only resort to social dialogue but also adopt comprehensive measures to shield…
Dismantling labour markets from above
Are countries reforming their labour market constrained by external political or financial institutions? This article analyses the supranational pressures impacting wage policy in European member states. Theoretically, it takes inspiration from the literature on international financial markets to analyse the key phases of a nascent multi-level policy cycle, where the European Commission plays a pivotal role. Empirically, it distinguishes between …
When Political Rights Do Not Translate into Economic Power
Lack of economic data based on ethnicity makes the study of minority economies in linguistically or ethnically mixed regions problematic. Yet, there is much to learn from these hard cases of economic development in terms of the policies that guarantee ethnic or linguistic survival and reproduction. The present article investigates the long-term economic development of the Slovenian minority in Italy between 1954 and 2020. It does so by applying t…
The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
As one of the greatest beneficiaries of the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery package, and given its low past absorption capacity of European Structural and Investment Funds and lacklustre implementation rates of Country-Specific Recommendations within the European Semester, in 2022, Italy is at the centre of the attention of its European partners. What are the chances of success of the Mediterranean country, which has disproportionately suffered …
Taking stock of shock
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions." East European Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Beyond the European Semester
Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the European Semester, which strengthened the hitherto inadequate European socioeconomic policy coordination mechanisms. Given that the additional powers bestowed upon the Commission were qualified, a supranational response followed. With the effect of strengthening its rational-legal a…
Back to the familialist future
This article contributes to the emerging studies of populist radical right parties' social policies by looking at two cases, Italy and Poland, where such parties have been in office without the constraint of mainstream pro-market coalition partners. The comparison of two cases with different historical/institutional paths and economic conditions shows how important high-visibility, high-expenditure social policies can be for populist radical righ…
Italy's Decline
International observers have not been kind to Italy during the past two decades. The International Monetary Fund (IMF, 2016) wrote about the country's two lost decades, the Economist (19 May 2005) described it as the real sick man of Europe and eminent economists, such as Bruno Pellegrino and Luigi Zingales (Pellegrino and Zingales, 2017), tried to diagnose the Italian disease. Italy's GDP has barely grown since the mid-1990s and the past decade …
German and Italian Pensions
The article employs a multi-level analytical framework to analyse pension reforms in Germany and Italy between 2011 and 2018, thereby focusing on the role played by the European Union. Whereas the EU is able to react to crises and prevent major deviations from its priorities, its influence has been uneven in the face of policy reversals and its capacity to spur the convergence of the two political economies has been limited. On one hand, the Comm…
The political economy of pension reforms in Europe under financial stress
Despite a substantially unchanged problem load in the last 20 years, EU Member States witnessed a recent surge in pension reforms. Since the Great Recession, external market and political pressures started outcompeting national politics in pension-related decisions. Employing European Commission data on major pension reforms during 2006–2015, we find that governments respond to higher risk premia charged by international financial actors. Macro-p…
Modes of regulatory governance
This article introduces the special issue by presenting a framework for the study of regulatory politics using the analytical tools and approaches of comparative political economy. Having traced the evolution of studies on regulation, it argues that scholars should pay more attention to the systemic features affecting regulation and to the relationship between regulatory policies and their outcomes. The article presents the foundations of an anal…
The Politics of NDC Pension Scheme Diffusion
Addresses the patterns of diffusion of nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension reforms, the conditions that facilitate or impede their adoption, the prospects for further diffusion, and the issues of sustainability of NDC-based reforms already in place. The three distinct waves of NDC and boundary-straddling pension reforms began with the first wave confined to Western and Central Europe in the 1990s. NDC pension schemes have been adopted…
Intergovernmental or supranational integration? A quantitative analysis of pension recommendations in the European Semester
The European Semester, launched in 2011, enhances the coordination of macroeconomic policies among European Union member states. This article contributes to the lively scholarly debate on whether this policy-making cycle has empowered more the European supranational or intergovernmental institutions. Drawing on a new dataset covering all pension-related country-specific recommendations between 2011 and 2016, and employing an original quantitative…
Slovenia
During the Great Recession, Slovenia recorded one of the worst economic performances within the EU. Such a decline is surprising as the country was the most stable among the post-socialist states. The article individuates the root cause for the downfall in protracted reform gradualism, which resulted in an inefficient privatisation process. This locked the country into a partial reform equilibrium' where economic elites extracted rents. Following…
The ‘Leap’ from Coordination to Harmonization in Social Policy
The Supplementary Pension Rights Directive, legislated in 2014, represents a leap from minimum co‐ordination of social security rights to minimal harmonization, thereby facilitating the portability of occupational pensions across the EU. The Lisbon Treaty, which relaxed the voting requirements in the Council, accelerated its adoption. In the ‘shadow of the vote’, opponents (mainly continental CMEs) abandoned the defence of the status quo for less…
Formal independence of regulatory agencies andVarieties ofCapitalism
TheVarieties ofCapitalism literature posits that national economic institutions reflect the mode of coordination of a country's market actors. Despite the importance of this claim and a rich literature on the emergence of regulatory capitalism, few studies test such prediction forIndependentRegulatoryAgencies (IRAs). This article connects the two fields of research by analysing the impact of economic coordination on the formal independence ofIRAs…
Modes of regulatory governance
This article introduces the special issue by presenting a framework for the study of regulatory politics using the analytical tools and approaches of comparative political economy. Having traced the evolution of studies on regulation, it argues that scholars should pay more attention to the systemic features affecting regulation and to the relationship between regulatory policies and their outcomes. The article presents the foundations of an anal…
Back to the familialist future
This article contributes to the emerging studies of populist radical right parties' social policies by looking at two cases, Italy and Poland, where such parties have been in office without the constraint of mainstream pro-market coalition partners. The comparison of two cases with different historical/institutional paths and economic conditions shows how important high-visibility, high-expenditure social policies can be for populist radical righ…
Intergovernmental or supranational integration? A quantitative analysis of pension recommendations in the European Semester
The European Semester, launched in 2011, enhances the coordination of macroeconomic policies among European Union member states. This article contributes to the lively scholarly debate on whether this policy-making cycle has empowered more the European supranational or intergovernmental institutions. Drawing on a new dataset covering all pension-related country-specific recommendations between 2011 and 2016, and employing an original quantitative…
The political economy of pension reforms in Europe under financial stress
Despite a substantially unchanged problem load in the last 20 years, EU Member States witnessed a recent surge in pension reforms. Since the Great Recession, external market and political pressures started outcompeting national politics in pension-related decisions. Employing European Commission data on major pension reforms during 2006–2015, we find that governments respond to higher risk premia charged by international financial actors. Macro-p…
The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism
The political-economy literature has so far almost unanimously regarded Slovenia as the social-democratic exception in Central and Eastern Europe, due to a combination of highly consensual democratic institutions, low party polarization, strong social partners, and developed social dialogue. However, the situation, since the fall of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS), which governed in 1992–2004, seems to be swiftly changing. Polarization ha…
Dismantling labour markets from above
Are countries reforming their labour market constrained by external political or financial institutions? This article analyses the supranational pressures impacting wage policy in European member states. Theoretically, it takes inspiration from the literature on international financial markets to analyse the key phases of a nascent multi-level policy cycle, where the European Commission plays a pivotal role. Empirically, it distinguishes between …
The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
As one of the greatest beneficiaries of the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery package, and given its low past absorption capacity of European Structural and Investment Funds and lacklustre implementation rates of Country-Specific Recommendations within the European Semester, in 2022, Italy is at the centre of the attention of its European partners. What are the chances of success of the Mediterranean country, which has disproportionately suffered …
Reform Agendas in National Recovery and Resilience Plans
This article examines the agency of national executives in shaping the reform agendas within the National Recovery and Resilience Plans (NRRPs) under the EU's Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF). Through a comparative analysis of NRRPs drafting in Germany, France, Italy and Spain, and an in‐depth longitudinal study of Italy, we argue that the partisan profile of national executives, to a significant extent, accounts for which reforms were incl…
Beyond the European Semester
Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the European Semester, which strengthened the hitherto inadequate European socioeconomic policy coordination mechanisms. Given that the additional powers bestowed upon the Commission were qualified, a supranational response followed. With the effect of strengthening its rational-legal a…
Pan-European pension funds
The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid the European Union's national and supranational as well as economic and social spaces. At the trans-national level, the European Commission's 2003 Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive created the il…
The ‘Leap’ from Coordination to Harmonization in Social Policy
The Supplementary Pension Rights Directive, legislated in 2014, represents a leap from minimum co‐ordination of social security rights to minimal harmonization, thereby facilitating the portability of occupational pensions across the EU. The Lisbon Treaty, which relaxed the voting requirements in the Council, accelerated its adoption. In the ‘shadow of the vote’, opponents (mainly continental CMEs) abandoned the defence of the status quo for less…
Stronger conditionality for stronger compliance? Analysing the NGEU’s effect on the implementation of European semester recommendations
This study examines the capacity of the European Union (EU) to influence policy change in its member states by focusing on the impact of EU conditionality under the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) introduced as part of the Next Generation EU (NGEU) package adopted in response to COVID-19 pandemic. Using data on the evaluations of the implementation of the 2019–2020 country-specific recommendations (CSRs) before (2021) and after (2022–2024)…
Taking stock of shock
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions." East European Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
German and Italian Pensions
The article employs a multi-level analytical framework to analyse pension reforms in Germany and Italy between 2011 and 2018, thereby focusing on the role played by the European Union. Whereas the EU is able to react to crises and prevent major deviations from its priorities, its influence has been uneven in the face of policy reversals and its capacity to spur the convergence of the two political economies has been limited. On one hand, the Comm…
The Survival and Return of Institutions
Opening a new phase in historical institutionalism, Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen show how a rigid dichotomy between incremental adaptation and radical transformation fails to capture important transformative processes common to advanced political economies. While their research focuses on gradual but radical transformation, the two authors leave open the interpretation of what constitutes abrupt, but only limited change. This article inte…
Unemployment Benefits in the EU
Unemployment insurance is a major component of European welfare regimes, whereby each EU member state has its own distinctive scheme. Despite falling under national competence, the European Commission has exercised pressure over this policy area since the establishment of the European Employment Strategy. In the aftermath of the global financial crisis, it stepped up its involvement through the European Semester, which went hand in hand with heig…
Slovenia
During the Great Recession, Slovenia recorded one of the worst economic performances within the EU. Such a decline is surprising as the country was the most stable among the post-socialist states. The article individuates the root cause for the downfall in protracted reform gradualism, which resulted in an inefficient privatisation process. This locked the country into a partial reform equilibrium' where economic elites extracted rents. Following…
Portability of Supplementary Pension Rights in Europe
In its effort to guarantee the free movement of workers, the European Union devised an advanced system of coordination of social security rights. Since 1958, statutory pensions are being aggregated for workers moving across the Member States. However, until mid‐2014, the portability of supplementary pension rights was not assured, there by undermining the freedom to labor mobility. This impaired the efficient allocation of labor, prevented sound …
A statistical evaluation of the effects of a structured postdoctoral programme
Postdoctoral programmes have recently become an important step leading from doctoral education to permanent academic careers in the social sciences. This paper investigates the effects of a large and structured postdoctoral programme in the social sciences on a number of academic and non-academic outcomes of fellows. Propensity score matching is employed to match fellows with applicants with similar characteristics who did not receive the fellows…
The cross-border portability of supplementary pensions
Over the past 40 years, the European Union (EU) has developed the most advanced system of coordination of social security rights in the world, as a corollary to the free movement of workers. Notwithstanding, problems with the acquisition, transfer and fruition of supplementary pension rights still undermine labour mobility across the member states. This article aims to describe EU pension regulation in the field and illustrates how the EU has emp…
Southeast European Pension Systems and Three Types of Reform Unsustainability
Similar to other transition economies, Southeast European countries inherited from the socialist welfare systems their characteristic inefficiencies. Furthermore, in the context of severe labour market strains, the pension systems in Southeast Europe have been overstretched to the point of structural breakdown. Hence, the need for thorough restructuring arose. Under the aegis of the World Bank, part of the region (Bulgaria, Croatia, Kosovo, Maced…
The Uncertain Future of Slovenian Exceptionalism
The political-economy literature has so far almost unanimously regarded Slovenia as the social-democratic exception in Central and Eastern Europe, due to a combination of highly consensual democratic institutions, low party polarization, strong social partners, and developed social dialogue. However, the situation, since the fall of the Liberal Democracy of Slovenia (LDS), which governed in 1992–2004, seems to be swiftly changing. Polarization ha…
Pan-European pension funds
The competitive pressures arising from European economic integration increasingly challenge the territorial sovereignty of national welfare states. This generates the need to situate domestic social security schemes amid the European Union's national and supranational as well as economic and social spaces. At the trans-national level, the European Commission's 2003 Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORP) Directive created the il…
The Survival and Return of Institutions
Opening a new phase in historical institutionalism, Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen show how a rigid dichotomy between incremental adaptation and radical transformation fails to capture important transformative processes common to advanced political economies. While their research focuses on gradual but radical transformation, the two authors leave open the interpretation of what constitutes abrupt, but only limited change. This article inte…
The cross-border portability of supplementary pensions
Over the past 40 years, the European Union (EU) has developed the most advanced system of coordination of social security rights in the world, as a corollary to the free movement of workers. Notwithstanding, problems with the acquisition, transfer and fruition of supplementary pension rights still undermine labour mobility across the member states. This article aims to describe EU pension regulation in the field and illustrates how the EU has emp…
Portability of Supplementary Pension Rights in Europe
In its effort to guarantee the free movement of workers, the European Union devised an advanced system of coordination of social security rights. Since 1958, statutory pensions are being aggregated for workers moving across the Member States. However, until mid‐2014, the portability of supplementary pension rights was not assured, there by undermining the freedom to labor mobility. This impaired the efficient allocation of labor, prevented sound …
A statistical evaluation of the effects of a structured postdoctoral programme
Postdoctoral programmes have recently become an important step leading from doctoral education to permanent academic careers in the social sciences. This paper investigates the effects of a large and structured postdoctoral programme in the social sciences on a number of academic and non-academic outcomes of fellows. Propensity score matching is employed to match fellows with applicants with similar characteristics who did not receive the fellows…
Slovenia
During the Great Recession, Slovenia recorded one of the worst economic performances within the EU. Such a decline is surprising as the country was the most stable among the post-socialist states. The article individuates the root cause for the downfall in protracted reform gradualism, which resulted in an inefficient privatisation process. This locked the country into a partial reform equilibrium' where economic elites extracted rents. Following…
The ‘Leap’ from Coordination to Harmonization in Social Policy
The Supplementary Pension Rights Directive, legislated in 2014, represents a leap from minimum co‐ordination of social security rights to minimal harmonization, thereby facilitating the portability of occupational pensions across the EU. The Lisbon Treaty, which relaxed the voting requirements in the Council, accelerated its adoption. In the ‘shadow of the vote’, opponents (mainly continental CMEs) abandoned the defence of the status quo for less…
Formal independence of regulatory agencies andVarieties ofCapitalism
TheVarieties ofCapitalism literature posits that national economic institutions reflect the mode of coordination of a country's market actors. Despite the importance of this claim and a rich literature on the emergence of regulatory capitalism, few studies test such prediction forIndependentRegulatoryAgencies (IRAs). This article connects the two fields of research by analysing the impact of economic coordination on the formal independence ofIRAs…
Intergovernmental or supranational integration? A quantitative analysis of pension recommendations in the European Semester
The European Semester, launched in 2011, enhances the coordination of macroeconomic policies among European Union member states. This article contributes to the lively scholarly debate on whether this policy-making cycle has empowered more the European supranational or intergovernmental institutions. Drawing on a new dataset covering all pension-related country-specific recommendations between 2011 and 2016, and employing an original quantitative…
The Politics of NDC Pension Scheme Diffusion
Addresses the patterns of diffusion of nonfinancial defined contribution (NDC) pension reforms, the conditions that facilitate or impede their adoption, the prospects for further diffusion, and the issues of sustainability of NDC-based reforms already in place. The three distinct waves of NDC and boundary-straddling pension reforms began with the first wave confined to Western and Central Europe in the 1990s. NDC pension schemes have been adopted…
The political economy of pension reforms in Europe under financial stress
Despite a substantially unchanged problem load in the last 20 years, EU Member States witnessed a recent surge in pension reforms. Since the Great Recession, external market and political pressures started outcompeting national politics in pension-related decisions. Employing European Commission data on major pension reforms during 2006–2015, we find that governments respond to higher risk premia charged by international financial actors. Macro-p…
Modes of regulatory governance
This article introduces the special issue by presenting a framework for the study of regulatory politics using the analytical tools and approaches of comparative political economy. Having traced the evolution of studies on regulation, it argues that scholars should pay more attention to the systemic features affecting regulation and to the relationship between regulatory policies and their outcomes. The article presents the foundations of an anal…
German and Italian Pensions
The article employs a multi-level analytical framework to analyse pension reforms in Germany and Italy between 2011 and 2018, thereby focusing on the role played by the European Union. Whereas the EU is able to react to crises and prevent major deviations from its priorities, its influence has been uneven in the face of policy reversals and its capacity to spur the convergence of the two political economies has been limited. On one hand, the Comm…
The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
As one of the greatest beneficiaries of the NextGenerationEU (NGEU) recovery package, and given its low past absorption capacity of European Structural and Investment Funds and lacklustre implementation rates of Country-Specific Recommendations within the European Semester, in 2022, Italy is at the centre of the attention of its European partners. What are the chances of success of the Mediterranean country, which has disproportionately suffered …
Taking stock of shock
Taking stock of shock: social consequences of the 1989 revolutions." East European Politics, ahead-of-print(ahead-of-print), pp. 1–2
Beyond the European Semester
Pensions at the European level have been, since the sovereign debt crisis, affected by several decision-making innovations. Retirement policy has been embedded in the European Semester, which strengthened the hitherto inadequate European socioeconomic policy coordination mechanisms. Given that the additional powers bestowed upon the Commission were qualified, a supranational response followed. With the effect of strengthening its rational-legal a…
Back to the familialist future
This article contributes to the emerging studies of populist radical right parties' social policies by looking at two cases, Italy and Poland, where such parties have been in office without the constraint of mainstream pro-market coalition partners. The comparison of two cases with different historical/institutional paths and economic conditions shows how important high-visibility, high-expenditure social policies can be for populist radical righ…
Italy's Decline
International observers have not been kind to Italy during the past two decades. The International Monetary Fund (IMF, 2016) wrote about the country's two lost decades, the Economist (19 May 2005) described it as the real sick man of Europe and eminent economists, such as Bruno Pellegrino and Luigi Zingales (Pellegrino and Zingales, 2017), tried to diagnose the Italian disease. Italy's GDP has barely grown since the mid-1990s and the past decade …
When Political Rights Do Not Translate into Economic Power
Lack of economic data based on ethnicity makes the study of minority economies in linguistically or ethnically mixed regions problematic. Yet, there is much to learn from these hard cases of economic development in terms of the policies that guarantee ethnic or linguistic survival and reproduction. The present article investigates the long-term economic development of the Slovenian minority in Italy between 1954 and 2020. It does so by applying t…
Energy and inflation crises in Romania and Slovenia
The 2021–2022 inflation crisis in the EU offers an opportunity to examine how diverse industrial relations systems respond to similar macroeconomic shocks. This article compares Romania and Slovenia, two post-communist countries whose industrial relations systems are poles apart. The expectation was that, in contrast to the enfeebled Romanian system, Slovenia would not only resort to social dialogue but also adopt comprehensive measures to shield…
Dismantling labour markets from above
Are countries reforming their labour market constrained by external political or financial institutions? This article analyses the supranational pressures impacting wage policy in European member states. Theoretically, it takes inspiration from the literature on international financial markets to analyse the key phases of a nascent multi-level policy cycle, where the European Commission plays a pivotal role. Empirically, it distinguishes between …
Alignment and asymmetry
The European Union (EU) and its member states are a paradigmatic case of governance at multiple levels, whose interpretation and resolution of crises may or may not be aligned. This paper explores such alignment by perusing how the European Union’s NextGenerationEU (NGEU) plan and its centerpiece, the Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF), contributed to shaping national crisis governance during the COVID-19 pandemic. Focusing on the political d…
The post-socialist neoliberal agenda through the prism of Europeanization in social and labour market policy
In post-socialist Central and Eastern Europe (CEE), the European Commission acted as an advocate of social and labour market policy change, promoting an almost ideal-typical neoliberal agenda, whose central tenets were fiscal sustainability in pensions and internal devaluation in wage setting. Related country-specific recommendations and their routine reviews, however, show not only the Commission’s preferences in the two policy fields, but also …
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