Europeanization or Party Politics? Explaining Government Choice for Corporatist Concertation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6263299
AutoresAlexandre Afonso (0000-0002-3545-5035, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies), Yannis Papadopoulos (0000-0001-5462-3228, University of Lausanne)
Año2013
Volumen26
Número1
Páginas5-29
Fecha de publicación2013-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaGovernance (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-0491.2012.01582.x
OpenAlexW1907828821
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas5
Referencias citadas39

This article assesses whether changes in government choice for policy concertation with trade unions and employers are better explained by international or domestic factors. We compare patterns of corporatist governance in a strongly Europeanized policy domain (labor migration policy) and in a weakly Europeanized policy domain (welfare state reforms) over the last 20 years in Austria and Switzerland. We show that there is no systematic difference in patterns of concertation between the two policy sectors and that factors linked to party politics play a bigger role in the choice of governments for concertation. If the base of party support for policies is divided, governments are more prone to resort to corporatist concertation as a way to build compromises for potentially controversial or unpopular policies. By contrast, ideologically cohesive majority coalitions are less prone to resort to concertation because they do not need to build compromises outside their base of party support

Corporate governance · Corporatism · Economic system · Economics · Government (linguistics · Ideology · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · State (computer science · Welfare · Welfare state · European Union Policy and Governance · Law · Political Influence and Corporate Strategies · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies · Finance