Wolfgang Streeck
Biographic Data
| ID | 205014 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Wolfgang Streeck |
| GIVEN NAMES | Wolfgang |
| FAMILY NAME | Streeck |
| SIGNATURE | STREECK W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Max Planck Society |
| ORCID | 0009-0004-9004-6973 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 147 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1118 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 139 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 8 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1980 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 19 |
The Road Right
Social Contract or Expert Rule
A matter of state
The EU at War
The paper explores the role of the European Union (EU) in the war in Ukraine, from the run-up of the war to its impact on the EU's future structure and functions, within Europe and globally. It begins with an account of the condition of the EU before the war, which it describes as overextended and stagnant with respect to the EU's proclaimed finalité, the "ever closer union of the peoples of Europe." Next, it recounts the use of the EU in early A…
Reflections on the particular and the universal
How do the general and the specific, or unity and diversity, relate to social life and political practice? The essay investigates four areas of social theory that may be fruitfully explored in terms of a constitutive tension between universal and local forces: endogenous institutional change, the role of intermediary organizations in the governance of industrial relations, nation-building, and the origin of capitalist diversity.
Fermer les yeux et foncer
Le pacifisme allemand d’après-guerre s’est rapidement évaporé. L’antinationalisme s’est transformé en une pseudo-identification nationaliste avec le nationalisme ukrainien radical, quelles que soient sa nature et son origine. Le débat public sur la guerre en Ukraine est contrôlé par une étroite alliance de médias et de partis politiques pro-américains. Les guerres culturelles intérieures fusionnent avec la guerre internationale dans un universali…
Labour law after neoliberalism
Over the course of the past 40 years, neoliberalism has all but destroyed the institutions that once civilized labour markets. In the wake of that destruction, labour law reform is being driven in some jurisdictions by a new kind of right‐wing populist politics. What does this hold in store for work relations? Our investigation of contemporary labour law begins with a brief look backwards to the pre‐ and post‐war decades and to the ostensible dep…
Reflexiones sobre lo particular y lo universal
How do the general and the specific, or unity and diversity, relate in social life and political practice? The essay investigates four areas of social theory that may be fruitfully explored in terms of a constitutive tension between universal and local forces: endogenous institutional change, the role of intermediary organizations in the governance of industrial relations, nation–building, and the origin of capitalist diversity. ¿Cómo se relacion…
Rejoinder to Crouch
Crouch's essay.To avoid being too long, I will address only one of the issues raised, that of "globalization" and "deglobalization"-a quite central one of course.Beholding the reactions to my book, scholarly and otherwise, I was struck by how often readers, Crouch included, accused me of calling for "globalization" to be reversed, in favor of a "return" to isolated-in German: abgeschottet, best translated as "sealed off"-nations and national stat…
Not Quite Enough
D’une crise à l’autre
International audience
Plus Ça Change
The Merkel era in Germany—and Europe—brought to an end by the crushing defeat of her party. Prospects for country and continent under the enlarged ‘extreme centre’ of Scholz, Lindner and the Greens. Does the resurrection of the SPD conceal a shuffle to the right
El Sistema de Estados Internacional después del Neoliberalismo
En 1945 Karl Polanyi esbozó una visión de un sistema estatal global en tiempos de paz con una economía política en la que los países pequeños podrían ser soberanos y democráticos. Este ensayo ofrece una perspectiva histórica y comparativa entre el pasado y el presente a la luz del pensamiento polanyiano. Se presta especial atención a la historia de la Unión Europea, que tras el fin del comunismo se convirtió en un pilar del proyecto neoliberal y …
Steuerung und Regulierung der beruflichen Bildung
1. Einleitung: Berufliche Bildung an der Schnittstelle zwischen öffentlicher Politik und industriellen Beziehungen. Problem und Methode der Untersuchung 2. Organisation und Repräsentation der Sozialparteien in den industriellen Beziehungen und der staatlichen Politik der Bundesrepublik Deutschland: Eine einführende Übersicht 3. Die Rolle der Sozialparteien in der Berufsausbildung 3.1. Regulierung: Die Festsetzung von Zielen, Inhalten und Anforder…
Politics in the Age of Austerity
Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Politics in the Age of Austerity 1 Armin Schafer and Wolfgang Streeck 2 Public Finance and the Decline of State Capacity in Democratic Capitalism 26 Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens 3 Tax Competition and Fiscal Democracy 59 Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz 4 Governing as an Engineering Problem: The Political Economy of Swedish Success 84 Sven Steinmo 5 Monetary Union, Fiscal Crisis and the Disabling of Democr…
Korporatismus in Deutschland
Das Buch untersucht die institutionelle Struktur der deutschen Variante des modernen Kapitalismus, insbesondere die Rolle intermediärer Organisationen sowie die Wechselwirkung zwischen nationalen Organisationsformen und supranationaler Integration. Im Mittelpunkt stehen die Besonderheiten des deutschen politisch-ökonomischen Systems, das Verhältnis von Staat und Verbänden, die "soziale Dimension" der europäischen Integration und ihr Verhältnis zu…
Endgame?
A longer-term perspective reveals the historical exhaustion of the financial resources of the democratic interventionist state of the postwar period. German politics present and future is shaped by a deep crisis of public finance. Its current expression is an apparently insurmountable conflict between four equally urgent political objectives: paying for social security by general taxes, rather than payroll taxes, to lower labor costs; consolidati…
Progressive Regression
Taking capitalism seriously
This paper outlines an institutionalist political economy approach to capitalism as a\nspecific type of social order. Social science institutionalism considers social systems to\nbe structured by sanctioned rules of obligatory behavior. Its perspective is one of collective\nordering, or governance, through regularization and normalization of social action,\neither by public authority or by private contract. Political economy looks at the interrel…
Industrial Relations Today
The paper was presented as a keynote lecture at the 10th anniversary of the Amsterdam\nInstitute for Advanced Labour Studies (AIAS) in April 2008. It surveys the trajectory\nof scholarly work on labor after 1945, from its initial emphasis on rights of industrial\nand social citizenship to its present preoccupation with â flexibilityâ and â flexicurityâ .\nIt recalls the dissolution of the â Fordistâ compromise in the 1970s and the subsequent\ngra…
E Pluribus Unum? Varieties and Commonalities of Capitalism
räumlich unbeschränkte und zeitlich auf die Dauer des Schutzrechts beschränkte einfache Recht ein, das ausgewählte Werk im Rahmen der unter
Markets and Peoples
Today’s Euro-turmoil as amplification of the clash between popular and financial interests. Turns of the dialectic of democracy and capitalism, and possible escape routes from the dictatorship of capital markets.
Re-forming Capitalism
This book addresses some of the key issues in the field of comparative political economy and institutional theory: the role of history in institutional analysis, the dynamics of slow institutional change, the limitations of rational design and economic-functionalist explanations of institutional stability, and the recurrent difficulties of restraining the effects of capitalism on social order. In the classification of the ‘Varieties of Capitalism…
Gekaufte Zeit die vertagte Krise des demokratischen Kapitalismus ; Frankfurter Adorno-Vorlesungen 2012
Einleitung: Krisentheorie - damals, heute I. Von der Legitimationskrise zur Fiskalkrise Eine Krise neuen Typs Zwei Überraschungen für die Krisentheorie Die andere Legitimationskrise und das Ende des Nachkriegsfriedens Die lange Wende: Vom Nachkriegskapitalismus zum Neoliberalismus Gekaufte Zeit II. Neoliberale Reform: Vom Steuerstaat zum Schuldenstaat Finanzkrise durch Demokratieversagen? Kapitalismus und Demokratie in der neoliberalen Revolution…
The origins of nonliberal capitalism
From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism
How Will Capitalism End
Its challengers apparently vanquished, the main threat to capitalism may now come from disorders that lurk within the system itself. Wolfgang Streeck diagnoses its crisis symptoms, from persistent stagnation to global anarchy, and asks what lies in store as they multiply
Skills and the Limits of Neo-Liberalism
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, …
Varieties of Capitalism
Community, market, state-and associations
WOLFGANG STREECK, PHILIPPE C. SCHMITTER; Community, market, state—and associations?: The prospective contribution of interest governance to social order, E
The Uncertainties of Management in the Management of Uncertainty
In the course of economic crisis, the initiative in industrial relations shifts to employers. This paper does not present employers' recent industrial relations initiatives in detail, but rather tries to reconstruct the general strategic problem to which they are responding. This problem is to find ways of managing an unprecedented degree of economic uncertainty deriving from a need for continuous rapid adjustment to a market environment that see…
Taking capitalism seriously
This paper outlines an institutionalist political economy approach to capitalism as a specific type of social order. Social science institutionalism considers social systems to be structured by sanctioned rules of obligatory behaviour. Its perspective is one of collective ordering, or governance, through regularization and normalization of social action, either by public authority or by private contract. Political economy looks at the interrelati…
German capitalism
Drawing on extensive comparison with the United States, Japan and Britain, the paper describes the “German model” of advanced capitalism as an institutionalized high-wage economy combining high competitiveness in world markets with strong social cohesion and, in particular, low levels of inequality along a variety of dimensions. This combination is explained by a unique set of socio-economic institutions, in particular socially instituted and cir…
Moral categories in the financial crisis
Karl Marx observed long ago that all economic struggles invite moral struggles, or masquerade as such. The reverse may be true, too: deep moral-political conflicts may be waged through the manipulation of economic resources and the design of policy devices. Using the recent financial and Eurozone crises as empirical backgrounds, the short papers presented here by Philippe Steiner, Cornelia Woll, Wolfgang Streeck and Marion Fourcade propose four d…
The Crises of Democratic Capitalism
The roots of today’s Great Recession are usually located in the financial excesses of the 1990s. Wolfgang Streeck traces a much longer arc, from 1945 onwards, of tensions between the logic of markets and the wishes of voters—culminating, he argues, in the international tempest of debt that now threatens to submerge democratic accountability altogether beneath the storm-waves of capital
How to Study Contemporary Capitalism
The paper argues that contemporary capitalism must be studied as a society rather than an economy, and contemporary society as capitalist society. Capitalism is defined as a specific institutionalization of economic action in the form of a specifically dynamic system of social action, with a tendency to expand into, impose itself on and consume its non-economic and non-capitalist social and institutional context, unless contained by political res…
The crumbling pillars of social partnership
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Between Pluralism and Corporatism German Business Associations and the State
This paper explores the complexities and ambiguities of the relationship between the state and business associations by examining the case of West Germany. While business associations continue to lobby the state on behalf of their members, they perform a number of other roles. Association staff often provide information and expert advice to the state. The state can lend associations organisational support by setting rules of political influence t…
Economic reform and the political economy of the German welfare state
The central problem of the German economy is the high costs of labour, driven up by the burden of funding an extensive welfare state through social insurance contributions that operate as payroll taxes on employment. The study identifies the political causes of the long-term rise in non-wage labour costs. It analyses the reforms of the last decade, showing how the multiplicity of veto points in the German political economy has weakened reform ini…
The Internationalization of Industrial Relations in Europe
European industrial relations are rapidly internationalizing; internationalization, however, is not necessarily de-nationalization. Even as European integration accelerates, national politics and industrial relations will remain the principal arenas for the social regulation of work and employment in Europe. The paper investigates the implications of European industrial relations developing into a multi-level system within which national regimes …
From stability of stagnation
Among political and economic elites as well as in public opinion a sense of malanaise has spread across Germany since the mid-1990s, after the initial enthusiasm about German unification, the end of the Cold War and the acceleration of European integration. In the early 1980s West Germany was widely celebrated, and indeed celebrated itself, as an island of economic prosperity, social peace and political stability in an increasingly turbulent worl…
Industrial citizenship under regime competition
As integrated Europe will not turn into a federal state, rights of citizenship, including industrial citizenship, remain nationally based. The article explores some of the consequences of this for social policy, at both European and national level. For empirical reference, it reconstructs the evolution of European Union legislation on workplace representation, in particular its movement in two decades from company to labour law, from harmonizatio…
Monetary disunion
Regional disparities within the European Union have always been perceived as an impediment to monetary integration. Discussions on a joint currency were linked to compensatory payments in the form of regional policy. Structural assistance increased sharply at the end of the 1980s. Later, however, it had to be shared with the new member states in the East. Moreover, the low-interest credit that Southern European Monetary Union members enjoyed as a…
Small‐State Nostalgia? The Currency Union, Germany, and Europe
Diversified quality production revisited
We revisit the concept of Diversified Quality Production (DQP), which we introduced about 30 years ago. Our purpose is to examine the extent to which the concept can still be considered tenable for describing and explaining the development of the interaction between the political economy and concepts of production, notably in Germany. First, we show why and in which ways DQP was more heterogeneous than we had originally understood. Then, on the b…
National Diversity, Regime Competition and Institutional Deadlock
The neo-corporatist experiments of the 1970s were attempts to preserve the labor-inclusiveness of post-war European political economies in increasingly adverse domestic and international conditions. Since their demise in the early 1980s, industrial relations in Western Europe are characterized by high divergence between national systems combined with rising interdependence among national economies, creating a growth potential for inter-regime com…
Educating capitalists
The paper takes up the basic issue, addressed by both commentators, of whether one can speak of economic performance as a general interest superseding the special interests of groups or classes. It suggests a dynamic concept of capitalist class interests that allows for a contingent, precarious, and perhaps increasingly less feasible reconciliation between general and special interests in economic performance
Beyond Corporatism
Does capitalism have a future?On the dismal future of capitalismThe future of capitalismUnfettered capitalism eats itselfThe next industrial revolution calls for a different economic system
This discussion forum is based on the roundtable discussion at the 27th Annual Conference of the Society for Advancement of Socio-Economics (SASE) hosted at the London School of Economics. The discussion presents recent work on capitalism as an evolving historical formation by Wolfgang Streeck and Craig Calhoun, together with contributions by British journalist Polly Toynbee and SASE founder Amitai Etzioni. Streeck opens with a reflection on majo…
Elementare Soziologie
Between Pluralism and Corporatism German Business Associations and the State
This paper explores the complexities and ambiguities of the relationship between the state and business associations by examining the case of West Germany. While business associations continue to lobby the state on behalf of their members, they perform a number of other roles. Association staff often provide information and expert advice to the state. The state can lend associations organisational support by setting rules of political influence t…
Industrial Relations in West Germany
Community, market, state-and associations
WOLFGANG STREECK, PHILIPPE C. SCHMITTER; Community, market, state—and associations?: The prospective contribution of interest governance to social order, E
Industrial Relations in a Decade of Economic Change
The Uncertainties of Management in the Management of Uncertainty
In the course of economic crisis, the initiative in industrial relations shifts to employers. This paper does not present employers' recent industrial relations initiatives in detail, but rather tries to reconstruct the general strategic problem to which they are responding. This problem is to find ways of managing an unprecedented degree of economic uncertainty deriving from a need for continuous rapid adjustment to a market environment that see…
Comment on Ronald Dore, ‘Rigidities in the Labour Market’
AT THE END OF HIS REVIEW OF LABOUR MARKET RIGIDITIES in advanced capitalist societies, Ronald Dore presents us with the classical and highly uncomfortable dilemma between equity and efficiency. There are two kinds of rigidities, he suggests: those that improve economic performance while giving rise to social inequality and societal dualism, and those that promote equity while detracting from efficiency. Unlike neo-classical economics, Dore recogn…
International and Comparative Industrial Relations
New Technology and Industrial Relations
Part 1 Theoretical and methodological issues: industrial relations and technical change - the case for an extended perspective, Wolfgang Streeck and Arndt Sorge flexible specialization - miracle or myth?, Richard Hyman comparative research and new technology, Beat Hotz-Hart new technology and social networks at the local and regional level, Reinhard Lund and Jorgen Rasmussen. Part 2 Innovation initiatives: management strategy - towards new forms …
New Technology and Industrial Relations
Skills and the Limits of Neo-Liberalism
Fair Shares
From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism
From National Corporatism to Transnational Pluralism
The paper explores the emerging role of organized interests, especially of labor unions, in the polity of the post-1992 European Community. It begins by reviewing the causes of the Community's failure in the 1960s and 1970s to develop a neocorporatist system of interest representation. It then analyzes the decline of national-level neocorporatism in the years after the second "oil shock," and relates the "Internal Market" project to that developm…
Business Institutions. Vol. 12 of Comparative Social Research
National Diversity, Regime Competition and Institutional Deadlock
The neo-corporatist experiments of the 1970s were attempts to preserve the labor-inclusiveness of post-war European political economies in increasingly adverse domestic and international conditions. Since their demise in the early 1980s, industrial relations in Western Europe are characterized by high divergence between national systems combined with rising interdependence among national economies, creating a growth potential for inter-regime com…
Inclusion and Secession
Industrial Districts and Local Economic Regeneration
This book contains two basic questions: how do the experiences of the Italian industrial districts compare with those of other countries, namely Canada, Cyprus, Germany, Denmark and Spain?; and what are the policy interventions needed in order to sustain existing industrial districts and guide other regions considering pursuing a similar strategy in the interests of local economic regeneration? The book attempts to provide an in-depth analysis of…
Staat und Verbände
Staat und Verbände
Beyond Keynesianism
Social Institutions and Economic Performance
Productive constraints on the institutional conditions of diversified quality production revising status and contract - pluralism, corporatism and flexibility interest heterogeneity and organizing capacity - two class logics of collective action? the logics of associative action and the territorial organization of interests - the case of German Handwerk co-determination - the fourth decade successful adjustment to turbulent markets - the German a…
Governing Capitalist Economies
This comparative analysis of of the coordination and control of industries in North America, Japan, and Western Europe challenges neo-classical economists' assumptions about the efficaciousness of market mechanisms as a means of enhancing economic performance. The authors also explore variation in state policies in the governance of internationally competitive industries (automobiles, chemicals, consumer electronics, and steel, for example) and d…
Beyond Corporatism
Capitalisms in conflict? The United States, Europe, and Japan in the post–cold war world
The end of the cold war and the disappearance of socialism as a major political-economic force opened the way for important changes in the capitalist world. These changes were of at least two types. On the one hand, the cessation of cold war hostilities between the United States and the Soviet Union downgraded the role of military in favor of economic power. This shift, in turn, increased the international standing of Europe and Japan at the expe…
Political science (121 works) · Economics (76 works) · Politics (71 works) · Law (67 works) · Sociology (50 works) · Political economy (44 works) · Political Economy and Marxism (41 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (41 works) · Capitalism (39 works) · Economic system (35 works)