Cathie Jo Martin
Biographic Data
| ID | 5711082 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cathie Jo Martin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cathie Jo |
| FAMILY NAME | Martin |
| SIGNATURE | MARTIN C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Boston University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 391 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State by Susan L. Moffitt, Michaela Krug O’Neill, and David K. Cohen
Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems
Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate wh…
Industrial coordination and vocational training in the post-industrial age
This chapter suggests that one needs to look beyond national-level structures of industrial coordination to grasp how political pacts for vocational education and institutions for business-labor cooperation are being reinvented. Many believe that a revamping of vocational education for the post-industrial economy is necessary both to invest skills in services and to provide education for non-academic youth. The chapter discusses the relationship …
Imagine All the People: Literature, Society, and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems
In light of their nineteenth-century political economies, why did poor, agricultural Denmark become a leader in public, mass primary education (1814) and a multiple-track education system that included vocational training, while rich, industrial Britain did not create public, mass schooling until 1870, and embrace a one-track, academic secondary-education system? The author argues that literary narratives shed light on these cross-national differ…
Economic Prosperity Is in High Demand
Baccaro and Pontusson persuasively argue that nations may choose among models of growth strategies, and that each is associated with a distinctive composition of aggregate demand, producer coalitions, and implications for redistribution. This essay considers the political institutions-patterns of industrial relations and public sector employment-that shape national struggles among producer groups and other social forces over diverse growth strate…
Party Politics and the Default Move from Coordination to Liberalism
This article delves into the origins of the first national multi-sector employers' associations in Denmark and the United Kingdom to understand why some countries produce highly-centralized, unitary national business associations, which develop labor market coordination with unions and the state. In contrast, other countries conclude their experiment with coordination by ultimately falling back on laissez-faire liberalism. In particular, I explor…
Twenty-first century breakdown: Negotiating new regulatory regimes in the Nordic lands
National policy-makers vary enormously in their repudiation of liberalism, with a resurgence of government controls and coordination in the Nordic countries. This article questions how new organising principles are adopted in response to fundamental economic transformations, and explores institutional structures underpinning the social relations of production. Institutions defining the social relations of production regulate class coordination wi…
The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth, and Equality
Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments in countries with strong peak business association…
Gonna Party Like It's 1899: Party Systems and the Origins of Varieties of Coordination
This article explores the origins of peak employers' associations to understand why countries produce highly centralized macrocorporatist groups, weaker national associations but stronger industry-level groups, or highly fragmented pluralist associations. The authors suggest that the structure of partisan competition played a vital causal role in the development and evolution of these peak associations. The leadership for peak employers' associat…
Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable
The debate about the idea of “varieties of capitalism,” which was formalized by Peter Hall and David Soskice in their 2001 book on the subject, has attracted the work of business historians, as well as of political scientists, and economists
The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems, and State Structure in the Age of Innocence
This paper investigates the political determinants of corporatist and pluralist employers' associations and reflects on the origins of the varieties of capitalism in the early decades of the 20th century. We hypothesize that proportional, multiparty systems tend to enable employers' associations to develop into social corporatist organizations, whereas nonproportional, two-party systems are conducive to the formation of pluralist associations. Mo…
The State and Coordinated Capitalism: Contributions of the Public Sector to Social Solidarity in Postindustrial Societies
This article investigates the politics of change in coordinated market econo\mies, and explores why some countries (well known for their highly cooperative arrangements) manage to sustain coordination when adjusting to economic transformation, while others fail. The authors argue that the broad category of “coordinated market economies” subsumes different types of cooperative engagement:macrocorporatutforms of coordination are characterized by na…
Sectional Parties, Divided Business
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) led the corporate attack on labor organization and government regulation in the early twentieth century. Yet NAM's deep distrust of coordination, in fact, developed years into its organizational life: at its inception, NAM organizers sought mechanisms to coordinate economic and political business activity, and held policy positions that resembled those favored by contemporaneous European manufacture…
Corporatism from the Firm Perspective: Employers and Social Policy in Denmark and Britain
This is an evaluation of the impact of corporatist and pluralist employers' associations on firms' programmatic participation in active labour-market and social policies in Denmark and Britain. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with randomly-selected companies, it explores whether employers' associations engage differently with their constituent firms in corporatist and pluralist settings, and whether corporatist countries have an advantage i…
Reinventing Welfare Regimes Employers and the Implementation of Active Social Policy
Denmark and Britain have adopted quite similar “active” social reforms in which employers play a major role in the programmatic delivery of services; however, the implementation of the programs has differed dramatically in the two countries. Danish firms, despite having had virtually no prior involvement in administering social programs, have participated in far greater numbers than British employers, who, by contrast, have long provided private,…
Does the Organization of Capital Matter? Employers and Active Labor Market Policy at the National and Firm Levels
Does the organization of business matter for social policy development in the advanced capitalist democracies? Conventional welfare state analysis has given this significant question scant attention. We argue, however, that the representational power of business, coordination across business interest units, and integration of associations in corporatist policy-making forums, or what we call thesocial corporatist organization of business, should r…
Employers and the Welfare State: The Political Economic Organization of Firms and Social Policy in Contemporary Capitalist Democracies
The authors argue that the organization of employers shapes social policy support among firms and, in turn, affects social policy outcomes. Specifically, the authors argue that the centralization and cohesion of employer groups and economic cooperation across enterprises positively affects social welfare provision. Empirically, the authors assess the impacts of business organization on social welfare effort in 15 developed democracies between the…
Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy: A New Institutionalist Perspective
Despite the conventional wisdom that managers generally oppose social policy, business opinion polls revealed considerable support for the health and training initiatives of the first Clinton administration. Yet while managers acting collectively in groups made tangible, public expressions of support for the training initiatives proposed by Clinton, they ultimately rejected the president's national health plan. This paper attributes the different…
Mandating Social Change: The Business Struggle Over National Health Reform
This article explores the conditions under which business managers endorse human resource investment policy drawing from the recent national health reform episode. In order to generate corporate support, a business community must develop corporate policy capacity, or the ability to grasp complicated social issues and to act in support of this social agenda. Corporate support is also influenced by the business–related strategies of government lead…
Nature or Nurture? Sources of Firm Preference for National Health Reform
I shall explore the process by which firms develop their political preferences, using the case of national health reform. Although rising health costs have heavily burdened many companies, I argue that economic interests alone are unable to account for the variation in firm response to the national reform effort. Rather, institutional factors, shown elsewhere to shape government decision making, also influence corporate preferences. These are (1)…
Business and the New Economic Activism: The Growth of Corporate Lobbies in the Sixties
There is wide agreement that the 1970s witnessed not only an increase in the level of political activity by business but the development of several new types of activity through trade associations, grass roots campaigns, and ad hoc coalitions across industrial sectors. This article contends that while the level of political activity by business did increase, the forms it look were all developed during the 1960s. The author argues that the forms w…
The Development of American Public Policy: The Structure of Policy Restraint . David B. Robertson , Dennis R. Judd
Does the Organization of Capital Matter? Employers and Active Labor Market Policy at the National and Firm Levels
Does the organization of business matter for social policy development in the advanced capitalist democracies? Conventional welfare state analysis has given this significant question scant attention. We argue, however, that the representational power of business, coordination across business interest units, and integration of associations in corporatist policy-making forums, or what we call thesocial corporatist organization of business, should r…
The State and Coordinated Capitalism: Contributions of the Public Sector to Social Solidarity in Postindustrial Societies
This article investigates the politics of change in coordinated market econo\mies, and explores why some countries (well known for their highly cooperative arrangements) manage to sustain coordination when adjusting to economic transformation, while others fail. The authors argue that the broad category of “coordinated market economies” subsumes different types of cooperative engagement:macrocorporatutforms of coordination are characterized by na…
Nature or Nurture? Sources of Firm Preference for National Health Reform
I shall explore the process by which firms develop their political preferences, using the case of national health reform. Although rising health costs have heavily burdened many companies, I argue that economic interests alone are unable to account for the variation in firm response to the national reform effort. Rather, institutional factors, shown elsewhere to shape government decision making, also influence corporate preferences. These are (1)…
Employers and the Welfare State: The Political Economic Organization of Firms and Social Policy in Contemporary Capitalist Democracies
The authors argue that the organization of employers shapes social policy support among firms and, in turn, affects social policy outcomes. Specifically, the authors argue that the centralization and cohesion of employer groups and economic cooperation across enterprises positively affects social welfare provision. Empirically, the authors assess the impacts of business organization on social welfare effort in 15 developed democracies between the…
Reinventing Welfare Regimes Employers and the Implementation of Active Social Policy
Denmark and Britain have adopted quite similar “active” social reforms in which employers play a major role in the programmatic delivery of services; however, the implementation of the programs has differed dramatically in the two countries. Danish firms, despite having had virtually no prior involvement in administering social programs, have participated in far greater numbers than British employers, who, by contrast, have long provided private,…
The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems, and State Structure in the Age of Innocence
This paper investigates the political determinants of corporatist and pluralist employers' associations and reflects on the origins of the varieties of capitalism in the early decades of the 20th century. We hypothesize that proportional, multiparty systems tend to enable employers' associations to develop into social corporatist organizations, whereas nonproportional, two-party systems are conducive to the formation of pluralist associations. Mo…
Business and the New Economic Activism: The Growth of Corporate Lobbies in the Sixties
There is wide agreement that the 1970s witnessed not only an increase in the level of political activity by business but the development of several new types of activity through trade associations, grass roots campaigns, and ad hoc coalitions across industrial sectors. This article contends that while the level of political activity by business did increase, the forms it look were all developed during the 1960s. The author argues that the forms w…
Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable
The debate about the idea of “varieties of capitalism,” which was formalized by Peter Hall and David Soskice in their 2001 book on the subject, has attracted the work of business historians, as well as of political scientists, and economists
Corporatism from the Firm Perspective: Employers and Social Policy in Denmark and Britain
This is an evaluation of the impact of corporatist and pluralist employers' associations on firms' programmatic participation in active labour-market and social policies in Denmark and Britain. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with randomly-selected companies, it explores whether employers' associations engage differently with their constituent firms in corporatist and pluralist settings, and whether corporatist countries have an advantage i…
Imagine All the People: Literature, Society, and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems
In light of their nineteenth-century political economies, why did poor, agricultural Denmark become a leader in public, mass primary education (1814) and a multiple-track education system that included vocational training, while rich, industrial Britain did not create public, mass schooling until 1870, and embrace a one-track, academic secondary-education system? The author argues that literary narratives shed light on these cross-national differ…
Gonna Party Like It's 1899: Party Systems and the Origins of Varieties of Coordination
This article explores the origins of peak employers' associations to understand why countries produce highly centralized macrocorporatist groups, weaker national associations but stronger industry-level groups, or highly fragmented pluralist associations. The authors suggest that the structure of partisan competition played a vital causal role in the development and evolution of these peak associations. The leadership for peak employers' associat…
Sectional Parties, Divided Business
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) led the corporate attack on labor organization and government regulation in the early twentieth century. Yet NAM's deep distrust of coordination, in fact, developed years into its organizational life: at its inception, NAM organizers sought mechanisms to coordinate economic and political business activity, and held policy positions that resembled those favored by contemporaneous European manufacture…
Economic Prosperity Is in High Demand
Baccaro and Pontusson persuasively argue that nations may choose among models of growth strategies, and that each is associated with a distinctive composition of aggregate demand, producer coalitions, and implications for redistribution. This essay considers the political institutions-patterns of industrial relations and public sector employment-that shape national struggles among producer groups and other social forces over diverse growth strate…
Party Politics and the Default Move from Coordination to Liberalism
This article delves into the origins of the first national multi-sector employers' associations in Denmark and the United Kingdom to understand why some countries produce highly-centralized, unitary national business associations, which develop labor market coordination with unions and the state. In contrast, other countries conclude their experiment with coordination by ultimately falling back on laissez-faire liberalism. In particular, I explor…
Twenty-first century breakdown: Negotiating new regulatory regimes in the Nordic lands
National policy-makers vary enormously in their repudiation of liberalism, with a resurgence of government controls and coordination in the Nordic countries. This article questions how new organising principles are adopted in response to fundamental economic transformations, and explores institutional structures underpinning the social relations of production. Institutions defining the social relations of production regulate class coordination wi…
Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy: A New Institutionalist Perspective
Despite the conventional wisdom that managers generally oppose social policy, business opinion polls revealed considerable support for the health and training initiatives of the first Clinton administration. Yet while managers acting collectively in groups made tangible, public expressions of support for the training initiatives proposed by Clinton, they ultimately rejected the president's national health plan. This paper attributes the different…
Mandating Social Change: The Business Struggle Over National Health Reform
This article explores the conditions under which business managers endorse human resource investment policy drawing from the recent national health reform episode. In order to generate corporate support, a business community must develop corporate policy capacity, or the ability to grasp complicated social issues and to act in support of this social agenda. Corporate support is also influenced by the business–related strategies of government lead…
The Development of American Public Policy: The Structure of Policy Restraint . David B. Robertson , Dennis R. Judd
Business and the New Economic Activism: The Growth of Corporate Lobbies in the Sixties
There is wide agreement that the 1970s witnessed not only an increase in the level of political activity by business but the development of several new types of activity through trade associations, grass roots campaigns, and ad hoc coalitions across industrial sectors. This article contends that while the level of political activity by business did increase, the forms it look were all developed during the 1960s. The author argues that the forms w…
Nature or Nurture? Sources of Firm Preference for National Health Reform
I shall explore the process by which firms develop their political preferences, using the case of national health reform. Although rising health costs have heavily burdened many companies, I argue that economic interests alone are unable to account for the variation in firm response to the national reform effort. Rather, institutional factors, shown elsewhere to shape government decision making, also influence corporate preferences. These are (1)…
Mandating Social Change: The Business Struggle Over National Health Reform
This article explores the conditions under which business managers endorse human resource investment policy drawing from the recent national health reform episode. In order to generate corporate support, a business community must develop corporate policy capacity, or the ability to grasp complicated social issues and to act in support of this social agenda. Corporate support is also influenced by the business–related strategies of government lead…
Business and the Politics of Human Capital Investment Policy: A New Institutionalist Perspective
Despite the conventional wisdom that managers generally oppose social policy, business opinion polls revealed considerable support for the health and training initiatives of the first Clinton administration. Yet while managers acting collectively in groups made tangible, public expressions of support for the training initiatives proposed by Clinton, they ultimately rejected the president's national health plan. This paper attributes the different…
Employers and the Welfare State: The Political Economic Organization of Firms and Social Policy in Contemporary Capitalist Democracies
The authors argue that the organization of employers shapes social policy support among firms and, in turn, affects social policy outcomes. Specifically, the authors argue that the centralization and cohesion of employer groups and economic cooperation across enterprises positively affects social welfare provision. Empirically, the authors assess the impacts of business organization on social welfare effort in 15 developed democracies between the…
Reinventing Welfare Regimes Employers and the Implementation of Active Social Policy
Denmark and Britain have adopted quite similar “active” social reforms in which employers play a major role in the programmatic delivery of services; however, the implementation of the programs has differed dramatically in the two countries. Danish firms, despite having had virtually no prior involvement in administering social programs, have participated in far greater numbers than British employers, who, by contrast, have long provided private,…
Does the Organization of Capital Matter? Employers and Active Labor Market Policy at the National and Firm Levels
Does the organization of business matter for social policy development in the advanced capitalist democracies? Conventional welfare state analysis has given this significant question scant attention. We argue, however, that the representational power of business, coordination across business interest units, and integration of associations in corporatist policy-making forums, or what we call thesocial corporatist organization of business, should r…
Corporatism from the Firm Perspective: Employers and Social Policy in Denmark and Britain
This is an evaluation of the impact of corporatist and pluralist employers' associations on firms' programmatic participation in active labour-market and social policies in Denmark and Britain. Drawing on semi-structured interviews with randomly-selected companies, it explores whether employers' associations engage differently with their constituent firms in corporatist and pluralist settings, and whether corporatist countries have an advantage i…
Sectional Parties, Divided Business
The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) led the corporate attack on labor organization and government regulation in the early twentieth century. Yet NAM's deep distrust of coordination, in fact, developed years into its organizational life: at its inception, NAM organizers sought mechanisms to coordinate economic and political business activity, and held policy positions that resembled those favored by contemporaneous European manufacture…
The State and Coordinated Capitalism: Contributions of the Public Sector to Social Solidarity in Postindustrial Societies
This article investigates the politics of change in coordinated market econo\mies, and explores why some countries (well known for their highly cooperative arrangements) manage to sustain coordination when adjusting to economic transformation, while others fail. The authors argue that the broad category of “coordinated market economies” subsumes different types of cooperative engagement:macrocorporatutforms of coordination are characterized by na…
The Political Origins of Coordinated Capitalism: Business Organizations, Party Systems, and State Structure in the Age of Innocence
This paper investigates the political determinants of corporatist and pluralist employers' associations and reflects on the origins of the varieties of capitalism in the early decades of the 20th century. We hypothesize that proportional, multiparty systems tend to enable employers' associations to develop into social corporatist organizations, whereas nonproportional, two-party systems are conducive to the formation of pluralist associations. Mo…
Varieties of Capitalism” Roundtable
The debate about the idea of “varieties of capitalism,” which was formalized by Peter Hall and David Soskice in their 2001 book on the subject, has attracted the work of business historians, as well as of political scientists, and economists
Gonna Party Like It's 1899: Party Systems and the Origins of Varieties of Coordination
This article explores the origins of peak employers' associations to understand why countries produce highly centralized macrocorporatist groups, weaker national associations but stronger industry-level groups, or highly fragmented pluralist associations. The authors suggest that the structure of partisan competition played a vital causal role in the development and evolution of these peak associations. The leadership for peak employers' associat…
The Political Construction of Business Interests: Coordination, Growth, and Equality
Many societies use labor market coordination to maximize economic growth and equality, yet employers' willing cooperation with government and labor is something of a mystery. The Political Construction of Business Interests recounts employers' struggles to define their collective social identities at turning points in capitalist development. Employers are most likely to support social investments in countries with strong peak business association…
Party Politics and the Default Move from Coordination to Liberalism
This article delves into the origins of the first national multi-sector employers' associations in Denmark and the United Kingdom to understand why some countries produce highly-centralized, unitary national business associations, which develop labor market coordination with unions and the state. In contrast, other countries conclude their experiment with coordination by ultimately falling back on laissez-faire liberalism. In particular, I explor…
Twenty-first century breakdown: Negotiating new regulatory regimes in the Nordic lands
National policy-makers vary enormously in their repudiation of liberalism, with a resurgence of government controls and coordination in the Nordic countries. This article questions how new organising principles are adopted in response to fundamental economic transformations, and explores institutional structures underpinning the social relations of production. Institutions defining the social relations of production regulate class coordination wi…
Economic Prosperity Is in High Demand
Baccaro and Pontusson persuasively argue that nations may choose among models of growth strategies, and that each is associated with a distinctive composition of aggregate demand, producer coalitions, and implications for redistribution. This essay considers the political institutions-patterns of industrial relations and public sector employment-that shape national struggles among producer groups and other social forces over diverse growth strate…
Imagine All the People: Literature, Society, and Cross-National Variation in Education Systems
In light of their nineteenth-century political economies, why did poor, agricultural Denmark become a leader in public, mass primary education (1814) and a multiple-track education system that included vocational training, while rich, industrial Britain did not create public, mass schooling until 1870, and embrace a one-track, academic secondary-education system? The author argues that literary narratives shed light on these cross-national differ…
Industrial coordination and vocational training in the post-industrial age
This chapter suggests that one needs to look beyond national-level structures of industrial coordination to grasp how political pacts for vocational education and institutions for business-labor cooperation are being reinvented. Many believe that a revamping of vocational education for the post-industrial economy is necessary both to invest skills in services and to provide education for non-academic youth. The chapter discusses the relationship …
Cultural Images of Labor Conflict and Coordination: Literature and the Evolution of Industrial Relations Systems
Denmark, Sweden and the Netherlands have different historical patterns of industrialization, but developed similar patterns of industrial coordination and cooperation. Theories accounting for industrial relations systems (economic structure, power resources, and party/electoral systems) have difficulty accounting for the similarities among these cases. Therefore, we explore the historical depictions of labor appearing in literature to evaluate wh…
Reforming the Reform: Problems of Public Schooling in the American Welfare State by Susan L. Moffitt, Michaela Krug O’Neill, and David K. Cohen
Political science (21 works) · Economics (19 works) · Politics (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Political economy (14 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (14 works) · Law (12 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Market economy (10 works) · Public Administration (8 works)