Christine Trampusch
Biographic Data
| ID | 363085 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christine Trampusch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christine |
| FAMILY NAME | Trampusch |
| SIGNATURE | TRAMPUSCH C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cologne |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1024-2065 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 344 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Including migrant skills in a knowledge economy: The politics of recognition of foreign qualifications, work experience and industry courses
The lack of skilled labour pushes mature knowledge economies towards importing skills. Previous studies have shown that migrants' economic and social integration in their host societies depend on the recognition of their skills. Yet, the degree to which the certificates of migrants and their practical experience are recognised and additional training is offered, is contested. Interests conflict not only between unions and employers, but also amon…
Regulating the digital economy: Explaining Heterogenous Business Preferences in Data Governance
As part of its European Data Strategy, the EU wants to create a market for non-personal data and unlock the sharing of industrial data between companies. This theory-building case study suggests that businesses' data governance preferences are determined by their position in the data value chain and thus whether firms monetise data as data holders (producers) in the upstream or as data reusers (access seekers) in the downstream segment. While the…
Digital power resources (DPR): The Political Economy of Structural and Infrastructural Business Power in Digital(ized) Capitalism
Studies on digitalization and business power tend to focus on digital platform firms. In contrast, we argue that data, digital technologies and digital infrastructures create novel digital power resources (DPR) for firms throughout sectors. DPR can be structural, that is, rooted in data and digital technologies, and infrastructural, that is, rooted in digital infrastructure. We propose indicators and apply them to a sample of 120 large firms from…
Financialization of, not by the State. Exploring Changes in the Management of Public Debt and Assets across Europe
This paper tackles one of the most recent issues in international and comparative political economy: the process of state financialization. Although research on global financial markets has revealed that states play a crucial role in private sector financialization, until recently, much less attention has been paid to state financialization itself. This includes both the measurement of cross-country variation and the question of why this process …
Do parliaments have control over sovereign debt management
Sovereign debt management (SDM) requires decisions about the composition and structure of central government debt. Nowadays the process is delegated to professional debt management offices (DMOs), which use complex financial instruments and resort to capital markets. Parliaments in some countries have expressed concern over losing control of SDM. This article devises two indices to measure parliamentary control over SDM and DMOs’ implementation f…
States' interests as limits to the power of finance: Regulatory reforms in early local government financialization in the US and UK
Through a comparison of typical and deviant cases, this study probes and refines the augmented power model which argues that the structural power of the financial industry fosters its instrumental power in influencing regulatory reforms under certain scope conditions. It shows the industry's success in influencing policymakers to authorize municipalities to use derivatives and thereby to financialize their debt management in the US (typical case)…
The political economy of local government financialization and the role of policy diffusion
By analyzing why English local governments have made extensive use of long‐term market loans with embedded derivatives, this paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on local government financialization. Using an original, large‐N panel dataset for the period from 1998 to 2014, we show that the configuration of the local political economy is an important driver of financialization processes: a Labour Party majority as well as fiscal an…
The Politics of Vocational Training: Theories, Typologies, and Public Policies
This chapter provides an overview of existing theories and approaches in comparative political economy and public policy in the study of the politics of vocational training. It argues that politics and conflicts in the economic/labor market arena as well as in the political arena affect the institutional design of vocational training systems. In the first section, we review how previous literature has conceptualized the politics of skills in the …
Enjeux de la formation professionnelle en Suisse. Le « modèle » suisse sous la loupe
The Swiss vocational education and training model is at the heart of an unprecedented enthusiasm. Both in Switzerland and abroad, it is praised for its management based on a public-private partnership, for its ability to integrate a large number of young people in beyond mandatory education and, finally, for the quality of the training provided which is in line with the labour market needs. However, these assets may hide the high complexity of th…
Liberal Financial Markets in the Interest of Staatskredite – A Process-Tracing Study of the Link between Sovereign Debt Policy and the 1908 Bourse Law Reform in the German Empire
This study of the reform of the German Bourse Law in 1908 argues that the “self-undermining negative policy feedback effects” of the initial Bourse Law of 1896 on the market for Imperial and state bonds explain why exchange regulation was liberalized although the dominant political forces, the Conservatives and the Clericals, were opposed to bourses and capital markets. Based on an original assessment of primary documents, the study uses the meth…
A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus: New Zealand's Pension Reforms as a Typical Case
This study analyses the decision‐making processes that led to the introduction of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (a public pension reserve and investment fund), as well as the KiwiSaver Scheme, which is New Zealand's first soft‐compulsory private pension scheme. Why and how are governments engaged in the development of funded pensions? These are the questions this study addresses. In analyzing the finance‐pension nexus in New Zealand, this a…
Vorwort
From Economic Gains to Social Losses: How Stories Shape Expectations in the Case of German Municipal Finance
Comment retracer les mécanismes causaux: Les différents usages du process tracing
Resume De nombreuses publications méthodologiques portent sur le process tracing , ses fondements ontologiques et épistémologiques, et cherchent à en définir et systématiser l'utilisation. Cette littérature suggère de nombreuses définitions différentes du process tracing . Le présent article se propose de passer en revue les différentes approches afin d'en souligner les traits communs et de dresser une typologie des usages du process tracing . Le…
Liberalization by Exhaustion: Transformative Change in the German Welfare State and Vocational Training System
This article argues that two core domains of the German coordinated market economy have undergone transformative institutional change: the welfare stale and the vocational training system. We argue that this process is best described as a process of liberalization resulting from the exhaustion of traditional institutions. Exhaustion describes a mechanism of institutional change in which endogenous negative feedback effects, caused by the over ext…
Where states and markets meet: The financialisation of sovereign debt management
Financial markets play an indispensable role in the management of sovereign debt, that is, the mechanics of how and from whom governments borrow. This paper suggests a novel, two-dimensional concept to measure the financialisation of sovereign debt management (SDM): (1) the reliance on financial markets as a governance mechanism and (2) the adoption of a sense-making framework grounded in financial economics. We split this concept into nine indic…
Between X and Y: How process tracing contributes to opening the black box of causality
This article maps the methodological debate on process tracing and discusses the diverse variants of process tracing in order to highlight the commonalities beyond diversity and disagreements. Today most authors agree that process tracing is aimed at unpacking causal and temporal mechanisms. The article distinguishes two main types of use for process tracing. Some are more inductive, aimed at theory building (i.e. at uncovering and specifying cau…
The Financialisation of Sovereign Debt: An Institutional Analysis of the Reforms in German Public Debt Management
This study explores the financialisation of sovereign debt through an in-depth study of institutional change in German debt management. Between 1998 and 2006, the Ministry of Finance fundamentally altered the management of federal public debt by not only disempowering the Bundesbank and Federal Debt Administration as debt managers and outsourcing this task to a new agency, the Federal Finance Agency; moreover, the conservative debt strategy was r…
Staatskapitalismus in NRW und Bayern: Der Aufstieg und Fall von WestLB und BayernLB
Why preferences and institutions change: A systematic process analysis of credit rating in Germany
This article argues that a within‐case analysis of the causes and patterns of the institutionalisation of rating in the German financial system offers fresh insights into change in the major socioeconomic institutions of advanced capitalism. Using the method of systematic process analysis, the article explores the expansion of credit rating in the German banking system from three perspectives: historical (power), sociological (diffusion) and beha…
Protectionism, obviously, is not dead: A case study on New Zealand's biosecurity policy and the causes-of-effects of economic interests
New Zealand is valuable as an extreme case in agricultural trade liberalisation and in market-oriented national biosecurity policy, for exploring the causes-of-effects of economic interests on national biosecurity policy. The article argues that the state is the best advocate of agro-economic interests and that international negotiations on trade liberalisation played a decisive role in the protectionist and economic orientation of New Zealand's …
Employers and collectively negotiated occupational pensions in Sweden, Denmark and Norway: Promoters, vacillators and adversaries
This article develops an analytical model of how and why the political-economic context affects employers’ preferences in using collective agreements to finance and regulate pension schemes. It argues that these preferences are influenced by three domains, the labour market and industrial relations system, public policies and the financial market. The study compares and contrasts three Nordic countries, and reveals how these three mechanisms have…
Agricultural Interests and the Origins of Capitalism: A Parallel Comparative History of Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, and the USA
Addressing the literature on the historical origins of capitalism, this study analyses the role agriculture played in the formation of non-market economic coordination in economic and social affairs around 1900. It argues that the dominant rural production profile dictated whether farmers did exert a significant impact on socio-economic institution and policy formation outside the rural sector. By applying the method of parallel demonstration of …
Skills and Industrial Relations in Coordinated Market Economies — Continuing Vocational Training in Denmark, the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland
This article offers the first systematic study of the institutional and political conditions under which collective agreements finance and organize continuing vocational training (CVT). Combining Mill's methods of agreement and difference with pattern matching, it identifies proactive small and medium enterprises, proactive public policies, proactive trade unions, and links between CVT and wage bargaining as probable conditions for CVT by collect…
Institutional shrinkage: The deviant case of Swiss banking secrecy
Using the Mahoney–Thelen causal model one would expect “layering” to be the dominant kind of institutional change affecting Swiss banking secrecy. Our research into governance in Swiss banking shows that it does not fit this theoretical model. Applying deviant case analysis we have refined our understanding of institutional change. We argue that the removal of rules and the momentum of pressure should be acknowledged when explaining variations of…
Between X and Y: How process tracing contributes to opening the black box of causality
This article maps the methodological debate on process tracing and discusses the diverse variants of process tracing in order to highlight the commonalities beyond diversity and disagreements. Today most authors agree that process tracing is aimed at unpacking causal and temporal mechanisms. The article distinguishes two main types of use for process tracing. Some are more inductive, aimed at theory building (i.e. at uncovering and specifying cau…
Where states and markets meet: The financialisation of sovereign debt management
Financial markets play an indispensable role in the management of sovereign debt, that is, the mechanics of how and from whom governments borrow. This paper suggests a novel, two-dimensional concept to measure the financialisation of sovereign debt management (SDM): (1) the reliance on financial markets as a governance mechanism and (2) the adoption of a sense-making framework grounded in financial economics. We split this concept into nine indic…
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 politics of employment-friendly welfare reforms in post-industrial economies
The transition to post-industrialism has generated a range of new tensions between welfare arrangements and labour market performance, which confront today's welfare states with new challenges for employment-friendly recalibration, such as flexicurity, activation and work-care conciliation. Hence, the question of whether, how and to what extent current welfare states are able to adapt to the conditions and needs of post-industrial labour markets …
Employers, the state and the politics of institutional change: Vocational education and training in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
An in‐depth comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland shows that the employers' constellation and the elites of the public education administration affect patterns of institutional change. If large firms are the dominant actors and collaborate with elites in the public education administration, institutional change follows a transformative pattern. If small and medium‐sized firms are in a strong position and have the power to influence publi…
The Financialisation of Sovereign Debt: An Institutional Analysis of the Reforms in German Public Debt Management
This study explores the financialisation of sovereign debt through an in-depth study of institutional change in German debt management. Between 1998 and 2006, the Ministry of Finance fundamentally altered the management of federal public debt by not only disempowering the Bundesbank and Federal Debt Administration as debt managers and outsourcing this task to a new agency, the Federal Finance Agency; moreover, the conservative debt strategy was r…
Institutional shrinkage: The deviant case of Swiss banking secrecy
Using the Mahoney–Thelen causal model one would expect “layering” to be the dominant kind of institutional change affecting Swiss banking secrecy. Our research into governance in Swiss banking shows that it does not fit this theoretical model. Applying deviant case analysis we have refined our understanding of institutional change. We argue that the removal of rules and the momentum of pressure should be acknowledged when explaining variations of…
Industrial Relations as a Source of Social Policy: A Typology of the Institutional Conditions for Industrial Agreements on Social Benefits
The article's starting point is that the now‐conventional conceptualization of welfare state retrenchment as a shift from state provision of income support to market processes is misleading. Rather, state provision may be replaced by benefits negotiated collectively by trade unions and employers. As a first step to further investigate this development the article suggests a typology of institutional contexts within which industrial agreements on …
Industrial relations and welfare states: The different dynamics of retrenchment in Germany and the Netherlands
Proceeding from an historical-analytical reconstruction of the development of collectively negotiated benefits in Germany and the Netherlands, this paper investigates the role and function of industrial relations as a provider and financial supporter of welfare. It argues that social policy based on collective agreements strongly influences contemporary retrenchment policies. Reviewing the literature on retrenchment policies, the paper argues tha…
The Politics of Institutional Change: Transformative and Self-Preserving Change in the Vocational Education and Training System in Switzerland
On the basis of an in-depth study of the Swiss Vocational Education and Training (VET) system?an extreme case among collectivist regimes?the employers' constellation and the elites of the public education administration affect patterns of institutional change. If large firms are the dominant actors and collaborate with elites in the public education administration, institutional change follows a transformative pat tern. If small and medium firms …
Europeanization and Institutional Change in Vocational Education and Training in Austria and Germany
This article analyzes how the EU's vocational education and training (VET) policy is reflected in domestic reforms in Germany and Austria. It perceives Europeanization as a heuristic concept to disentangle a twofold process of institutional change: The first process, the “Europeanized” arena of change, concerns change initiated by the reactions of domestic actors to EU initiatives; the second process of change—the “domestic” arena of change—conce…
Industrial Relations as a Source of Solidarity in Times of Welfare State Retrenchment
Within the literature on retrenchment policies, the 'solidarity-decline thesis' is discussed. It is argued that current welfare state restructuring leads to a decrease in the actual social cohesion of society because redistributive public benefits are cut. The article addresses this thesis by presenting empirical evidence on social security based on collective bargaining. In Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands, collective agreements are …
States' interests as limits to the power of finance: Regulatory reforms in early local government financialization in the US and UK
Through a comparison of typical and deviant cases, this study probes and refines the augmented power model which argues that the structural power of the financial industry fosters its instrumental power in influencing regulatory reforms under certain scope conditions. It shows the industry's success in influencing policymakers to authorize municipalities to use derivatives and thereby to financialize their debt management in the US (typical case)…
The political economy of local government financialization and the role of policy diffusion
By analyzing why English local governments have made extensive use of long‐term market loans with embedded derivatives, this paper seeks to contribute to the growing literature on local government financialization. Using an original, large‐N panel dataset for the period from 1998 to 2014, we show that the configuration of the local political economy is an important driver of financialization processes: a Labour Party majority as well as fiscal an…
The welfare state and trade unions in Switzerland: An historical reconstruction of the shift from a liberal to a post-liberal welfare regime
Switzerland is an extreme case that exhibits affinities to both the liberal and continental welfare state. Furthermore, trade union social policy activities mirror the development of the welfare state. While in the liberal phase of the Swiss welfare state, trade unions were sceptical of national social policy and therefore preferred union-run welfare schemes and collective bargaining. During Switzerland’s post-liberal phase, trade unions have bec…
Digital power resources (DPR): The Political Economy of Structural and Infrastructural Business Power in Digital(ized) Capitalism
Studies on digitalization and business power tend to focus on digital platform firms. In contrast, we argue that data, digital technologies and digital infrastructures create novel digital power resources (DPR) for firms throughout sectors. DPR can be structural, that is, rooted in data and digital technologies, and infrastructural, that is, rooted in digital infrastructure. We propose indicators and apply them to a sample of 120 large firms from…
Why preferences and institutions change: A systematic process analysis of credit rating in Germany
This article argues that a within‐case analysis of the causes and patterns of the institutionalisation of rating in the German financial system offers fresh insights into change in the major socioeconomic institutions of advanced capitalism. Using the method of systematic process analysis, the article explores the expansion of credit rating in the German banking system from three perspectives: historical (power), sociological (diffusion) and beha…
Collective agreements on pensions as a source of solidarity
Within the literature of welfare state retrenchment, the "solidarity-decline thesis" is discussed. It is argued that the privatisation of pension schemes leads to a decrease of solidarity. On the basis of an empirical analysis of collective agreements on pension in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and France, this article discusses this thesis. It reviews concepts of solidarity used in the literature and develops a two-dimensional scheme of four…
Regulating the digital economy: Explaining Heterogenous Business Preferences in Data Governance
As part of its European Data Strategy, the EU wants to create a market for non-personal data and unlock the sharing of industrial data between companies. This theory-building case study suggests that businesses' data governance preferences are determined by their position in the data value chain and thus whether firms monetise data as data holders (producers) in the upstream or as data reusers (access seekers) in the downstream segment. While the…
From Economic Gains to Social Losses: How Stories Shape Expectations in the Case of German Municipal Finance
Agricultural Interests and the Origins of Capitalism: A Parallel Comparative History of Germany, Denmark, New Zealand, and the USA
Addressing the literature on the historical origins of capitalism, this study analyses the role agriculture played in the formation of non-market economic coordination in economic and social affairs around 1900. It argues that the dominant rural production profile dictated whether farmers did exert a significant impact on socio-economic institution and policy formation outside the rural sector. By applying the method of parallel demonstration of …
From interest groups to parties: The change in the career patterns of the legislative elite in German social policy
Analysing the careers of members of the Bundestag Standing Committee for Labour and Social Affairs, the paper demonstrates that the ties between social politicians and social policy organisations such as trade unions, faith-based social policy organisations, independent charity organisations, works councils and social insurance institutions have become blurred. Since the 1990s social\npoliticians have become more focused on political careers in t…
Do parliaments have control over sovereign debt management
Sovereign debt management (SDM) requires decisions about the composition and structure of central government debt. Nowadays the process is delegated to professional debt management offices (DMOs), which use complex financial instruments and resort to capital markets. Parliaments in some countries have expressed concern over losing control of SDM. This article devises two indices to measure parliamentary control over SDM and DMOs’ implementation f…
A State‐centred Explanation of the Finance‐Pension Nexus: New Zealand's Pension Reforms as a Typical Case
This study analyses the decision‐making processes that led to the introduction of the New Zealand Superannuation Fund (a public pension reserve and investment fund), as well as the KiwiSaver Scheme, which is New Zealand's first soft‐compulsory private pension scheme. Why and how are governments engaged in the development of funded pensions? These are the questions this study addresses. In analyzing the finance‐pension nexus in New Zealand, this a…
Von einem liberalen zu einem post‐liberalen Wohlfahrtsstaat: Der Wandel der gewerkschaftlichen Sozialpolitik in der Schweiz
The article reconstructs the development of the Swiss welfare state against the background of the transformation of trade unions' social policy activities. It detects a sequence of trade unions' activities in social policy which runs uniformly to the development of the welfare state. While in the liberal phase of the Swiss welfare state trade unions were sceptical of national social policy and preferred mutual insurance and collective bargaining,…
Das Scheitern der Politikwissenschaft am Bündnis für Arbeit. Eine Kritik an der Problemlösungsliteratur über das Bündnis für Arbeit
Institutional Resettlement: The Case of Early Retirement in Germany
The implicit model that informs a great deal of theorizing on the welfare state sees most advances in welfare state development as something which states (and often, specifically, left political parties in power) presided over, usually in times of relative prosperity (Huber and Stephens 2001), and which states (even under conservative governments) are now finding more resistant to change than previously thought (Pierson 1996; Myles and Pierson 20…
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…
From interest groups to parties: The change in the career patterns of the legislative elite in German social policy
Analysing the careers of members of the Bundestag Standing Committee for Labour and Social Affairs, the paper demonstrates that the ties between social politicians and social policy organisations such as trade unions, faith-based social policy organisations, independent charity organisations, works councils and social insurance institutions have become blurred. Since the 1990s social\npoliticians have become more focused on political careers in t…
Industrial relations and welfare states: The different dynamics of retrenchment in Germany and the Netherlands
Proceeding from an historical-analytical reconstruction of the development of collectively negotiated benefits in Germany and the Netherlands, this paper investigates the role and function of industrial relations as a provider and financial supporter of welfare. It argues that social policy based on collective agreements strongly influences contemporary retrenchment policies. Reviewing the literature on retrenchment policies, the paper argues tha…
Sequenzorientierte Policy-Analyse: Warum die Rentenreform von Walter Riester nicht an Reformblockaden scheiterte
English abstracts
Industrial Relations as a Source of Social Policy: A Typology of the Institutional Conditions for Industrial Agreements on Social Benefits
The article's starting point is that the now‐conventional conceptualization of welfare state retrenchment as a shift from state provision of income support to market processes is misleading. Rather, state provision may be replaced by benefits negotiated collectively by trade unions and employers. As a first step to further investigate this development the article suggests a typology of institutional contexts within which industrial agreements on …
Industrial Relations as a Source of Solidarity in Times of Welfare State Retrenchment
Within the literature on retrenchment policies, the 'solidarity-decline thesis' is discussed. It is argued that current welfare state restructuring leads to a decrease in the actual social cohesion of society because redistributive public benefits are cut. The article addresses this thesis by presenting empirical evidence on social security based on collective bargaining. In Denmark, France, Germany and the Netherlands, collective agreements are …
Status quo vadis? Die Pluralisierung und Liberalisierung der „Social-Politik“: Eine Herausforderung für die politikwissenschaftliche und soziologische Sozialpolitikforschung
Sowohl in der Soziologie als auch in der Politikwissenschaft gibt es eine Reihe von Studien, die für die Sozialpolitik das Vorhandensein einer gegenüber ihrer Umwelt (Ökonomie und politisch-administratives System) relativ autonomen bzw. verselbstständigten Konfiguration von Akteuren, Interessen und Machtverhältnissen identifiziert haben, die sich strukturell als stabil erweist und zwischen Staat und Gesellschaft eine intermediäre Stellung einnimm…
Jenseits von Anpassungsdruck und Lernen: Die Europäisierung der deutschen Berufsbildung
ZSE Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften | Journal for Comparative Government and European Policy , Seite 577 - 605
Warum und wie Industrielle Beziehungen den Parteieneffekt auf wohlfahrtsstaatliche Retrenchmentpolitik beeinflussen. Ein Vergleich zwischen den Niederlanden, Dänemark, Deutschland und Frankreich
Von einem liberalen zu einem post‐liberalen Wohlfahrtsstaat: Der Wandel der gewerkschaftlichen Sozialpolitik in der Schweiz
The article reconstructs the development of the Swiss welfare state against the background of the transformation of trade unions' social policy activities. It detects a sequence of trade unions' activities in social policy which runs uniformly to the development of the welfare state. While in the liberal phase of the Swiss welfare state trade unions were sceptical of national social policy and preferred mutual insurance and collective bargaining,…
The politics of employment-friendly welfare reforms in post-industrial economies
The transition to post-industrialism has generated a range of new tensions between welfare arrangements and labour market performance, which confront today's welfare states with new challenges for employment-friendly recalibration, such as flexicurity, activation and work-care conciliation. Hence, the question of whether, how and to what extent current welfare states are able to adapt to the conditions and needs of post-industrial labour markets …
Collective agreements on pensions as a source of solidarity
Within the literature of welfare state retrenchment, the "solidarity-decline thesis" is discussed. It is argued that the privatisation of pension schemes leads to a decrease of solidarity. On the basis of an empirical analysis of collective agreements on pension in the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and France, this article discusses this thesis. It reviews concepts of solidarity used in the literature and develops a two-dimensional scheme of four…
Europeanization and Institutional Change in Vocational Education and Training in Austria and Germany
This article analyzes how the EU's vocational education and training (VET) policy is reflected in domestic reforms in Germany and Austria. It perceives Europeanization as a heuristic concept to disentangle a twofold process of institutional change: The first process, the “Europeanized” arena of change, concerns change initiated by the reactions of domestic actors to EU initiatives; the second process of change—the “domestic” arena of change—conce…
Co-evolution of skills and welfare in coordinated market economies? A comparative historical analysis of Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland
The Varieties of Capitalism literature argues that different forms of market economies, skill systems and welfare regimes are causally related, because preferences follow a logic of asset-specific investment. This article demonstrates the strength of comparative historical analysis in supplementing the human capital investment model by a more contextualized perspective. The main argument is that both the evolution of training regimes and the deve…
How and why industrial relations influence party effect upon welfare state retrenchment. A comparison of the Netherlands, Denmark, Germany and France
The welfare state and trade unions in Switzerland: An historical reconstruction of the shift from a liberal to a post-liberal welfare regime
Switzerland is an extreme case that exhibits affinities to both the liberal and continental welfare state. Furthermore, trade union social policy activities mirror the development of the welfare state. While in the liberal phase of the Swiss welfare state, trade unions were sceptical of national social policy and therefore preferred union-run welfare schemes and collective bargaining. During Switzerland’s post-liberal phase, trade unions have bec…
Forum: Educational Reforms and Research Projects
Politikwissenschaftliche Bildungsforschung hat bislang vier Schwerpunkte: Vergleichende Policy-Analyse, Prozesse der Internationalisierung und Europäisierung, Arbeiten der vergleichenden politischen Ökonomie sowie Studien zu den Effekten von Bildungsinstitutionen und -politiken. Auf der Grundlage einer dichten Analyse der gegenwärtigen Transformation und Reform von Bildungs- und Ausbildungssystemen in der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland ergän…
Employers, the state and the politics of institutional change: Vocational education and training in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
An in‐depth comparison of Austria, Germany and Switzerland shows that the employers' constellation and the elites of the public education administration affect patterns of institutional change. If large firms are the dominant actors and collaborate with elites in the public education administration, institutional change follows a transformative pattern. If small and medium‐sized firms are in a strong position and have the power to influence publi…
Einleitung: Berufsbildungs‐ und Hochschulpolitik in der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland
Politikwissenschaftliche Bildungsforschung hat bislang vier Schwerpunkte: Vergleichende Policy‐Analyse, Prozesse der Internationalisierung und Europäisierung, Arbeiten der vergleichenden politischen Ökonomie sowie Studien zu den Effekten von Bildungsinstitutionen und ‐politiken. Auf der Grundlage einer dichten Analyse der gegenwärtigen Transformation und Reform von Bildungs‐ und Ausbildungssystemen in der Schweiz, Österreich und Deutschland ergän…
The Politics of Institutional Change: Transformative and Self-Preserving Change in the Vocational Education and Training System in Switzerland
On the basis of an in-depth study of the Swiss Vocational Education and Training (VET) system?an extreme case among collectivist regimes?the employers' constellation and the elites of the public education administration affect patterns of institutional change. If large firms are the dominant actors and collaborate with elites in the public education administration, institutional change follows a transformative pat tern. If small and medium firms …
The Political Economy of Collective Skill Formation
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Europeanization and the Varying Responses in Collective Skill Systems
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