Quiet Politics of Employment Protection Legislation? Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition, and the Regulatory Welfare State
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5741340 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Linda Voigt (0000-0003-4621-3979), Reimut Zohlnhöfer (0000-0001-7808-9410) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 691 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 206-222 |
| Publication date | 2020-09-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7162 • E-ISSN: 1552-3349 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0002716220964388 |
| OpenAlex | W3106645391 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 39 |
Political parties and party competition have been important factors in the expansion and retrenchment of the fiscal welfare state, but researchers have argued that regulatory welfare is not part of political debate among parties. We explore this claim theoretically, and then empirically examine it in the case of employment protection legislation (EPL) in twenty-one established democracies since 1985. EPL is a mature and potentially salient instrument of the regulatory welfare state that has experienced substantial retrenchment. We test three prominent mechanisms of how electoral competition conditions partisan effects: the composition of Left parties' electorates, the strength of pro-EPL parties, and the emphasis put on social justice by pro-EPL parties. We find that the partisan politics of EPL is conditioned by electoral competition under only very specific circumstances, namely when blame sharing becomes possible in coalitions between EPL supporters
Blame · Competition (biology) · Economics · Labour economics · Legislation · Market economy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Regulatory state · Retrenchment · State (computer science) · Welfare · Welfare state · Electoral Systems and Political Participation · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Moving Beyond Expenditure Accounts
Development and Crisis of the Welfare State
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Social Democracy Inside Out
Social Capitalism
Labor Market Rigidities
The power of talk and the welfare state
The decline of the working-class vote, the reconfiguration of the welfare support coalition and consequences for the welfare state
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Decommodification and activation in social democratic policy
Dismantling the Welfare State? after Twenty-five years
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The Welfare State
Bringing agency back into the study of partisan politics
Left parties, voter preferences, and economic policy-making in Europe
Panel data analysis and partisan variables
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The New Politics of the Welfare State
Conditional Punishment
Issue Emphases, Saliency Theory and Issue Ownership
Redistributing under fiscal constraint
The Politics of Blame Avoidance
Irresistible forces, immovable objects
Partisanship, political constraints, and employment protection reforms in an era of austerity
Job security regulations in Western democracies
Constraining Ministerial Power
Political parties and non-standard employment
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Insider-Outsider Politics in Industrialized Democracies
| Unique citing works | 2 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,4 |
| Citation span | 2021 - 2024 (4) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 2 |