The trajectory of institutional change in Germany, 1979–2009

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ID6290291
AutoresGrégory Jackson (0000-0002-1593-8988, Fugro (Norway), autor correspondente), Arndt Sorge (State University of New York at Potsdam, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume19
Fascículo8
Páginas1146-1167
Data de publicação2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2012.709009
OpenAlexW2059239831
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas19
Referências citadas35

Over the last three decades, the German political economy can be characterized by both institutional continuity and change. Understanding the dynamics of institutional change therefore requires an examination of the interplay of changes in formal institutional rules and how organizations respond to these changes by strategic attempts to promote or hinder further change in institutions. The macro-level political story of institutional change shows a number of paradoxes resulting in unexpected and often incomplete forms of market liberalization shaped by continued support for some core features of Germany's social market economy. The resulting erosion of Germany's co-ordinated model of economic organization through networks and business associations has gone hand-in-hand with the attempts to preserve these institutions for core workers and sectors of the economy in the face of changing environments. The result is a more varied institutional landscape characterized by international diffusion of liberal policies and the politics of their variable re-embedding within a long-term path of institutional continuity

Corporate governance · Economic system · Economics · German · Institutional change · Liberalization · Market economy · Path dependence · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Economic and Social Issues · Labor Movements and Unions · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies