Georg Menz
Biographic Data
| ID | 1248321 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Georg Menz |
| GIVEN NAMES | Georg |
| FAMILY NAME | Menz |
| SIGNATURE | MENZ G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Goldsmiths University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7968-5628 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 167 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Imperial dreams and the plains of Eastern Europe
Understanding the identity of a policy field: The European Commission and liberal modernization in the domain of labour and social policy
Varieties of Capitalism and the Next Steps Beyond
Given the prominence of the varieties of capitalism debate and its imprint from the turn of the twenty-first century onwards, this chapter is dedicated to introducing, reviewing, critiquing, and expanding Peter Hall and David Soskice’s paradigm of ‘Varieties of Capitalism’. We explore the impact the turn towards ‘varieties’ has had, examine how the discussion has reshaped the subfield as a whole, and propose fresh ways pointing forward. Recent st…
Comparative Political Economy: Contours of a Subfield
This new and comprehensive volume invites the reader on a tour of the exciting subfield of comparative political economy. The book provides an in-depth account of the theoretical debates surrounding different models of capitalism. Tracing the origins of the field back to Adam Smith and the French Physiocrats, the development of the study of models of political-economic governance is laid out and reviewed. Comparative Political Economy (CPE) sets …
Framing competitiveness: The advocacy of migration as an essential human resources strategy in Europe
This paper examines how competitiveness has been framed rhetorically and politically by interested actors in France, Germany, and the UK. Skilled rhetorical advocacy clothes particular political demands in the language of competitiveness and purported exigencies of the global economy, thus advancing political goals more easily that might otherwise encounter significant political opposition. In theoretical terms, the paper analyses the ideational …
Building Pathways for the Highly Skilled: Adopting a Comparative Political Economy Approach to the Study of German, Austrian and Swedish Labour Migration Policies
Recent years have witnessed major changes to German migration policy, including most notably policy concerning labour migration. The restrictive approach associated with the end of active recruitment in 1973 has been gradually abandoned. Since 2000, a variety of liberalisation measures have been pursued, facilitating legal labour migration and making German skilled migration provisions fairly liberal by international comparison. Though this would…
Social Policy and the Euro Crisis: Quo Vadis Social Europe
In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of 'Social Europe' today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy
Framing the matter differently: The political dynamics of European Union labour migration policymaking
Most of the scholarly literature on European Union immigration policymaking has emphasized the predominance of governmental actors. The major changes entailed in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, however, imply a significant increase in supranationalism and necessitate rethinking earlier conclusions. Exploring the concomitant rise of policy entrepreneurship traits in the actions taken by the European Commission, this article emphasizes the role of discours…
Commission Entrepreneurship and the Debasing of Social Europe Before and After the Eurocrisis
The bulk of the literature on ‘social Europe’ has suggested that social policy at the level of the EU remains to be characterized by the interplay of courts and markets. While we do not disagree with this argument, our objective is to shed light on the European Commission's entrepreneurship, an element which appears to be somewhat bereft of scholarly attention. We show how, by displaying social acuity, defining problems and building teams, the Co…
The promise of the principal-agent approach for studying EU migration policy: The case of external migration control
The European Commission as a policy entrepreneur in European migration policy making
European immigration policy making has often been characterized either as a largely spill-over driven process or as “venue shopping,” a way to escape from the confines of national capitals. This article suggests that success in policy creation hinges crucially on the presence of a policy entrepreneur; while the European Commission faced propitious conditions for acting in this fashion, it did not always manage to do so. Drawing on the creation of…
Kicking the Can Down the Road to More Europe? Salvaging the Euro and the Future of European Economic Governance
This article anayzes the future of European economic governance in the wake of the crisis of the single currency
Employer Preferences for Labour Migration: Exploring ‘Varieties of Capitalism’-Based Contextual Conditionality in Germany and the United Kingdom
European employers are rediscovering liberalised labour migration and are attempting to lobby governments to modify previously restrictive regulatory approaches. This article analyses these newly embraced interest positions, drawing on empirical evidence from the United Kingdom and Germany. Employers do not simply desire more migrants or are indifferent to their skills profile, but rather seek newcomers who can be easily accommodated and compleme…
Martin Myant and Jan Drahokoupil, Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia ; Huw MACARTNEY, Variegated Neoliberalism: EU Varieties of Capitalism and Internat…
Martin MYANT and Jan DRAHOKOUPIL, Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2011. Huw MACARTNEY, Variegated Neoliberalism: EU Va
Stopping, Shaping and Moulding Europe: Two-Level Games, Non-state Actors and the Europeanization of Migration Policies
Europeanization is not only top-down and one-dimensional. National governments play two-level games, encountering non-state actors that seek to shape the national interest positions. Examining migration and asylum policy, a domain not yet subject to extensive scholarly attention, the role of non-state interest groups and their influence, where coalition-building is successful, is highlighted. Empirically, the article explores the genesis of the E…
Labour Migration in Europe
Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of economic migration, legalization measures, irregular migra
Are you being served? Europeanizing and re-regulating the single market in services
While the freedom of service provision is one of the pillars of the Single Market Project, such deregulation clashes with national wage regulation and social policy-making. This article examines recent attempts by the European Commission to further promote liberalization, epitomized in the so-called ‘Bolkestein Directive’, as well as three case studies of political conflict involving the transnational posting of workers within the framework of se…
After Agenda 2010 is before the Elections: Consolidation, Dissent, and the Politics of German Labour Market Policy under the Grand Coalition
The Grand Coalition of 2005, formed after painful electoral losses, forced both the CDU/CSU and the SPD to retract from the more radical neo-liberal positions of the Leipzig Programme and Agenda 2010 respectively. Yet labour market policy showed no signs of a fresh start and continued in the framework set by the Hartz reform measures, fine-tuning and adjusting them. No comprehensive agreement could be reached on the contested issue of a statutory…
The Neoliberalized State and Migration Control: The Rise of Private Actors in the Enforcement and Design of Migration Policy
Current migration debates often underestimate the structural transformation of the European state and its embrace of neoliberal competition state priorities. This article analyzes two important changes that flow form this mutation. Firstly, migration control efforts now involve private actors, especially transportation companies, but also private security companies. By devolving operational responsibility and imposing financial sanctions, airline…
Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market
This original study of the impact of EU-induced liberalization of service provision on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be implemented in response to Europeanization. Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this book bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of polit…
The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration: Between Autonomy and the European Union – Edited by T. Faist and A. Ette
“Useful” Gastarbeiter , burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
Migration has re-emerged as a highly politicized, divisive, and contested issue in European politics over the past twenty-five years or so. Much of the public debate has focused on the economic ramifications of migration and a commonly rehearsed claim underlying calls for restrictive policy concerns: the "drain" on welfare systems that migrants constitute. The phenomenon of "welfare state chauvinism" is by no means unique to its Scandinavian orig…
Internalizing Globalization
This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a b
Auf Wiedersehen, Rhineland Model: Embedding Neoliberalism in Germany
A Thatcherite revolution never occurred in Germany. Indeed, notwithstanding considerable pressures toward convergence on the liberal Anglo-American model (Harding and Patterson 2000), emanating from economic liberalization induced by the European Union (EU) and the global dissemination of neoliberal ideology and policies, the relative institutional stability of Rhineland capitalism has been interpreted as evidence of its continuing resilience. Th…
Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism
Commission Entrepreneurship and the Debasing of Social Europe Before and After the Eurocrisis
The bulk of the literature on ‘social Europe’ has suggested that social policy at the level of the EU remains to be characterized by the interplay of courts and markets. While we do not disagree with this argument, our objective is to shed light on the European Commission's entrepreneurship, an element which appears to be somewhat bereft of scholarly attention. We show how, by displaying social acuity, defining problems and building teams, the Co…
Kicking the Can Down the Road to More Europe? Salvaging the Euro and the Future of European Economic Governance
This article anayzes the future of European economic governance in the wake of the crisis of the single currency
Re-regulating the Single Market: National varieties of capitalism and their responses to Europeanization
The article combines insights from the literature on comparative political economy with recent advances in the literature on the effects of Europeanization on member states. Empirically, it analyses the national re-regulation of wages for workers posted transnationally in the framework of the European Union's Liberalization of Service Provision. It is argued that the organizational power of trade unions and employers' associations and their prefe…
Stopping, Shaping and Moulding Europe: Two-Level Games, Non-state Actors and the Europeanization of Migration Policies
Europeanization is not only top-down and one-dimensional. National governments play two-level games, encountering non-state actors that seek to shape the national interest positions. Examining migration and asylum policy, a domain not yet subject to extensive scholarly attention, the role of non-state interest groups and their influence, where coalition-building is successful, is highlighted. Empirically, the article explores the genesis of the E…
Old bottles – new wine: The new dynamics of industrial relations
This contribution engages recent debates in comparative political economy, arguing that labels such as divergence or convergence are ultimately unsatisfactory in analysing German industrial relations and labour market policy. The persistence of formal institutions goes hand in hand with rapid and dramatic change – a neo-liberal re-orientation among political elites in government and a more bellicose stance on the part of employers. Business attem…
The Neoliberalized State and Migration Control: The Rise of Private Actors in the Enforcement and Design of Migration Policy
Current migration debates often underestimate the structural transformation of the European state and its embrace of neoliberal competition state priorities. This article analyzes two important changes that flow form this mutation. Firstly, migration control efforts now involve private actors, especially transportation companies, but also private security companies. By devolving operational responsibility and imposing financial sanctions, airline…
Employer Preferences for Labour Migration: Exploring ‘Varieties of Capitalism’-Based Contextual Conditionality in Germany and the United Kingdom
European employers are rediscovering liberalised labour migration and are attempting to lobby governments to modify previously restrictive regulatory approaches. This article analyses these newly embraced interest positions, drawing on empirical evidence from the United Kingdom and Germany. Employers do not simply desire more migrants or are indifferent to their skills profile, but rather seek newcomers who can be easily accommodated and compleme…
Are you being served? Europeanizing and re-regulating the single market in services
While the freedom of service provision is one of the pillars of the Single Market Project, such deregulation clashes with national wage regulation and social policy-making. This article examines recent attempts by the European Commission to further promote liberalization, epitomized in the so-called ‘Bolkestein Directive’, as well as three case studies of political conflict involving the transnational posting of workers within the framework of se…
Understanding the identity of a policy field: The European Commission and liberal modernization in the domain of labour and social policy
The promise of the principal-agent approach for studying EU migration policy: The case of external migration control
Framing competitiveness: The advocacy of migration as an essential human resources strategy in Europe
This paper examines how competitiveness has been framed rhetorically and politically by interested actors in France, Germany, and the UK. Skilled rhetorical advocacy clothes particular political demands in the language of competitiveness and purported exigencies of the global economy, thus advancing political goals more easily that might otherwise encounter significant political opposition. In theoretical terms, the paper analyses the ideational …
Patterns in EU labour immigration policy: National initiatives and European responses
The article proposes an analytical framework for the analysis of EU labour immigration policy. Internal immigration policy is produced by top-down liberalisation and bottom-up national re-regulation, coloured by national interest associations and political engineering of the migration topic. External immigration policy may be created through bottom-up osmosis of national or bilateral initiatives. The EU liberalisation of service provision and its…
Building Pathways for the Highly Skilled: Adopting a Comparative Political Economy Approach to the Study of German, Austrian and Swedish Labour Migration Policies
Recent years have witnessed major changes to German migration policy, including most notably policy concerning labour migration. The restrictive approach associated with the end of active recruitment in 1973 has been gradually abandoned. Since 2000, a variety of liberalisation measures have been pursued, facilitating legal labour migration and making German skilled migration provisions fairly liberal by international comparison. Though this would…
Framing the matter differently: The political dynamics of European Union labour migration policymaking
Most of the scholarly literature on European Union immigration policymaking has emphasized the predominance of governmental actors. The major changes entailed in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, however, imply a significant increase in supranationalism and necessitate rethinking earlier conclusions. Exploring the concomitant rise of policy entrepreneurship traits in the actions taken by the European Commission, this article emphasizes the role of discours…
The domestic determinants of national response strategies to EU-induced liberalization: Examining the regulation of wages for posted workers in Austria and Germany
This article analyzes and compares the German and Austrian national response strategies to the liberalization of service provision in the European Union. This liberalization, brought about by efforts to create a Single Market, has enabled the transnational provision of services without initially clarifying the wage and labor conditions applicable to workers posted to other member states. The national legislative re-regulatory measures or response…
After Agenda 2010 is before the Elections: Consolidation, Dissent, and the Politics of German Labour Market Policy under the Grand Coalition
The Grand Coalition of 2005, formed after painful electoral losses, forced both the CDU/CSU and the SPD to retract from the more radical neo-liberal positions of the Leipzig Programme and Agenda 2010 respectively. Yet labour market policy showed no signs of a fresh start and continued in the framework set by the Hartz reform measures, fine-tuning and adjusting them. No comprehensive agreement could be reached on the contested issue of a statutory…
Beyond the Anwerbestopp? The German–Polish Bilateral Labour Treaty
This article analyses the genesis, implementation and effects of the bilateral labour treaties between Germany and Central and Eastern Europe, focussing on the Polish–German Treaty and the construction sector. These treaties represent a significant departure from the restrictive German and European Union immigration policy. First, the political motives of the Polish and German governments are examined. The overall German ambition was to temporari…
The domestic determinants of national response strategies to EU-induced liberalization: Examining the regulation of wages for posted workers in Austria and Germany
This article analyzes and compares the German and Austrian national response strategies to the liberalization of service provision in the European Union. This liberalization, brought about by efforts to create a Single Market, has enabled the transnational provision of services without initially clarifying the wage and labor conditions applicable to workers posted to other member states. The national legislative re-regulatory measures or response…
Beyond the Anwerbestopp? The German–Polish Bilateral Labour Treaty
This article analyses the genesis, implementation and effects of the bilateral labour treaties between Germany and Central and Eastern Europe, focussing on the Polish–German Treaty and the construction sector. These treaties represent a significant departure from the restrictive German and European Union immigration policy. First, the political motives of the Polish and German governments are examined. The overall German ambition was to temporari…
Patterns in EU labour immigration policy: National initiatives and European responses
The article proposes an analytical framework for the analysis of EU labour immigration policy. Internal immigration policy is produced by top-down liberalisation and bottom-up national re-regulation, coloured by national interest associations and political engineering of the migration topic. External immigration policy may be created through bottom-up osmosis of national or bilateral initiatives. The EU liberalisation of service provision and its…
Re-regulating the Single Market: National varieties of capitalism and their responses to Europeanization
The article combines insights from the literature on comparative political economy with recent advances in the literature on the effects of Europeanization on member states. Empirically, it analyses the national re-regulation of wages for workers posted transnationally in the framework of the European Union's Liberalization of Service Provision. It is argued that the organizational power of trade unions and employers' associations and their prefe…
Internalizing Globalization
This book explores how a wide range of countries attempt to cope with the challenges of globalization. While the internalization of globalization proceeds in significantly different ways, there is a b
Auf Wiedersehen, Rhineland Model: Embedding Neoliberalism in Germany
A Thatcherite revolution never occurred in Germany. Indeed, notwithstanding considerable pressures toward convergence on the liberal Anglo-American model (Harding and Patterson 2000), emanating from economic liberalization induced by the European Union (EU) and the global dissemination of neoliberal ideology and policies, the relative institutional stability of Rhineland capitalism has been interpreted as evidence of its continuing resilience. Th…
Internalizing Globalization: The Rise of Neoliberalism and the Decline of National Varieties of Capitalism
Old bottles – new wine: The new dynamics of industrial relations
This contribution engages recent debates in comparative political economy, arguing that labels such as divergence or convergence are ultimately unsatisfactory in analysing German industrial relations and labour market policy. The persistence of formal institutions goes hand in hand with rapid and dramatic change – a neo-liberal re-orientation among political elites in government and a more bellicose stance on the part of employers. Business attem…
“Useful” Gastarbeiter , burdensome asylum seekers, and the second wave of welfare retrenchment: Exploring the nexus between migration and the welfare state
Migration has re-emerged as a highly politicized, divisive, and contested issue in European politics over the past twenty-five years or so. Much of the public debate has focused on the economic ramifications of migration and a commonly rehearsed claim underlying calls for restrictive policy concerns: the "drain" on welfare systems that migrants constitute. The phenomenon of "welfare state chauvinism" is by no means unique to its Scandinavian orig…
Varieties of Capitalism and Europeanization: National Response Strategies to the Single European Market
This original study of the impact of EU-induced liberalization of service provision on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be implemented in response to Europeanization. Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this book bridges the gap between the rapidly unfolding scholarly debate on Europeanization and varieties of capitalism. It argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of polit…
The Europeanization of National Policies and Politics of Immigration: Between Autonomy and the European Union – Edited by T. Faist and A. Ette
The Neoliberalized State and Migration Control: The Rise of Private Actors in the Enforcement and Design of Migration Policy
Current migration debates often underestimate the structural transformation of the European state and its embrace of neoliberal competition state priorities. This article analyzes two important changes that flow form this mutation. Firstly, migration control efforts now involve private actors, especially transportation companies, but also private security companies. By devolving operational responsibility and imposing financial sanctions, airline…
Labour Migration in Europe
Examining the new realities of economic immigration to Europe, this book focuses on new trends and developments, including the rediscovery of economic migration, legalization measures, irregular migra
Are you being served? Europeanizing and re-regulating the single market in services
While the freedom of service provision is one of the pillars of the Single Market Project, such deregulation clashes with national wage regulation and social policy-making. This article examines recent attempts by the European Commission to further promote liberalization, epitomized in the so-called ‘Bolkestein Directive’, as well as three case studies of political conflict involving the transnational posting of workers within the framework of se…
After Agenda 2010 is before the Elections: Consolidation, Dissent, and the Politics of German Labour Market Policy under the Grand Coalition
The Grand Coalition of 2005, formed after painful electoral losses, forced both the CDU/CSU and the SPD to retract from the more radical neo-liberal positions of the Leipzig Programme and Agenda 2010 respectively. Yet labour market policy showed no signs of a fresh start and continued in the framework set by the Hartz reform measures, fine-tuning and adjusting them. No comprehensive agreement could be reached on the contested issue of a statutory…
Employer Preferences for Labour Migration: Exploring ‘Varieties of Capitalism’-Based Contextual Conditionality in Germany and the United Kingdom
European employers are rediscovering liberalised labour migration and are attempting to lobby governments to modify previously restrictive regulatory approaches. This article analyses these newly embraced interest positions, drawing on empirical evidence from the United Kingdom and Germany. Employers do not simply desire more migrants or are indifferent to their skills profile, but rather seek newcomers who can be easily accommodated and compleme…
Martin Myant and Jan Drahokoupil, Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia ; Huw MACARTNEY, Variegated Neoliberalism: EU Varieties of Capitalism and Internat…
Martin MYANT and Jan DRAHOKOUPIL, Transition Economies: Political Economy in Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley, 2011. Huw MACARTNEY, Variegated Neoliberalism: EU Va
Stopping, Shaping and Moulding Europe: Two-Level Games, Non-state Actors and the Europeanization of Migration Policies
Europeanization is not only top-down and one-dimensional. National governments play two-level games, encountering non-state actors that seek to shape the national interest positions. Examining migration and asylum policy, a domain not yet subject to extensive scholarly attention, the role of non-state interest groups and their influence, where coalition-building is successful, is highlighted. Empirically, the article explores the genesis of the E…
The European Commission as a policy entrepreneur in European migration policy making
European immigration policy making has often been characterized either as a largely spill-over driven process or as “venue shopping,” a way to escape from the confines of national capitals. This article suggests that success in policy creation hinges crucially on the presence of a policy entrepreneur; while the European Commission faced propitious conditions for acting in this fashion, it did not always manage to do so. Drawing on the creation of…
Kicking the Can Down the Road to More Europe? Salvaging the Euro and the Future of European Economic Governance
This article anayzes the future of European economic governance in the wake of the crisis of the single currency
The promise of the principal-agent approach for studying EU migration policy: The case of external migration control
Social Policy and the Euro Crisis: Quo Vadis Social Europe
In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of 'Social Europe' today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy
Framing the matter differently: The political dynamics of European Union labour migration policymaking
Most of the scholarly literature on European Union immigration policymaking has emphasized the predominance of governmental actors. The major changes entailed in the 2009 Lisbon Treaty, however, imply a significant increase in supranationalism and necessitate rethinking earlier conclusions. Exploring the concomitant rise of policy entrepreneurship traits in the actions taken by the European Commission, this article emphasizes the role of discours…
Commission Entrepreneurship and the Debasing of Social Europe Before and After the Eurocrisis
The bulk of the literature on ‘social Europe’ has suggested that social policy at the level of the EU remains to be characterized by the interplay of courts and markets. While we do not disagree with this argument, our objective is to shed light on the European Commission's entrepreneurship, an element which appears to be somewhat bereft of scholarly attention. We show how, by displaying social acuity, defining problems and building teams, the Co…
Framing competitiveness: The advocacy of migration as an essential human resources strategy in Europe
This paper examines how competitiveness has been framed rhetorically and politically by interested actors in France, Germany, and the UK. Skilled rhetorical advocacy clothes particular political demands in the language of competitiveness and purported exigencies of the global economy, thus advancing political goals more easily that might otherwise encounter significant political opposition. In theoretical terms, the paper analyses the ideational …
Political science (28 works) · Economics (25 works) · Law (22 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (19 works) · Political economy (18 works) · European Union Policy and Governance (16 works) · Politics (16 works) · Law (13 works) · European union (12 works) · Sociology (9 works)