Playing Normative Legacies
Partisanship and Employment Policies in Crisis-Ridden Europe
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2317331 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Tobias Schulze-Cleven (0000-0001-9155-6677, Rutgers University–New Brunswick, USA), J Timo Weishaupt (0000-0002-9637-1230, University of Göttingen) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 43 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 269-299 |
| Publication date | 2015-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Latin American Politics and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1531-426X • E-ISSN: 1548-2456 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0032329215571291 |
| OpenAlex | W2125352350 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 15 |
Europe's affluent democracies adopted different policy strategies to buffer their labor markets from the effects of the worldwide recession that followed the financial crisis in 2007. This article offers a sociologically anchored historical institutionalist explanation to account for this divergence. Reviewing the politics of employment policymaking before, during, and after the crisis in the United Kingdom, Germany, and Denmark, the article traces partisan actors' tactics of maneuvering within the constraints of institutionally embedded mass preferences to legitimate their policies and improve their electoral performance. The analysis moves beyond contemporary treatments of path-dependent institutional evolution in two important ways. Rather than focusing on how arrangements at the work-welfare nexus provide actors with particular functional benefits and differential power resources, it examines institutions' ideational effects on the construction of electorates' interests. Moreover, it illuminates partisan politicians' room for strategic agency, breaking with interpretations that view government responses as the product of particular producer group coalitions
Agency (philosophy · Divergence (linguistics · Economics · Financial crisis · Government (linguistics · Nexus (standard · Normative · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Recession · Sociology · Work (physics · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Unlikely activists
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| Unique citing works | 15 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1,36 |
| Citation span | 2015 - 2021 (7) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 15 |