Employers, the state and the politics of institutional change
Vocational education and training in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6259604 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Christine Trampusch (0000-0003-1024-2065, University of Bern, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 545-573 |
| Publication date | 2010-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | European Journal of Political Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0304-4130 • E-ISSN: 1475-6765 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.01909.x |
| OpenAlex | W2040682103 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 33 |
| References cited | 20 |
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 public elites according to their interests, self‐preserving institutional change results. The article also shows that it is not so much trade unions as small and medium‐sized firms that act as a brake on transformative change. The article adds to the literature of institutional change by arguing that specifying and explaining patterns of institutional change requires that sufficient scope be allowed for actors' creative handling of institutions. It also suggests that in order to differentiate between self‐preserving and transformative change, one has to specify the important institutional dimensions that sustain an institution. The article combines Mill's method of agreement and difference
Economics · Higher education · Institution · Institutional change · Order (exchange · Pedagogy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Position (finance · Power (physics · Scope (computer science · Sociology · State (computer science · Transformative learning · Vocational education · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Höhere beruflich-betriebliche Bildung
The Politics of Vocational Training
Comparative institutional disadvantage
Skills and Inequality
Austrian Corporatism – erosion or resilience?
The rise of work-based academic education in Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Mobilising for change in vocational education and training in Sweden – a case study of the ‘Technical College’ scheme
Business as a Pivotal Actor in the Politics of Training Reform
Social versus liberal collective skill formation systems? A comparative-historical analysis of the role of trade unions in German and Swiss VET
Liberalization by Exhaustion
Digital Transformation of Vocational Schools in Switzerland
Die treibende Kraft hinter dem Wandel? Die digitale Transformation an beruflichen Schulen aus der Perspektive von Schulleitungen in der Schweiz und in Deutschland
To exit or not to exit? Employers’ considerations in a collective skill formation system
Creating Apprenticeships in Switzerland
Decentralised cooperation between industries and local governments in a statist skill-formation system
Political Economy of Skill Formation and Gender Bias in Skills and Employment in Hierarchical Market Economies
When politics gets in the way
Warum schrumpft die migrantische Mittelschicht in der Stadt? Zur Dynamik der Schichtung am Beispiel Wiens zwischen 2003 und 2013
Dual Vocational Education and Training Systems’ Governance Model and Policy Transfer
Meeting automation challenges to labor markets
Unconstrained Capital? Multinational companies, structural power, and collective goods provision in dual VET
Social inclusion in the knowledge economy
Combined modes of gradual change
On the limited usefulness of comparative politics modelling for understanding VET systems
Engineering the expansion of higher education
High Skills for High Tech
Going Up-Skill
Onward and upward? Occupational upgrading, social inclusion and collective skill formation in the transition to the knowledge economy
Einleitung
Duale oder schulische Berufsausbildung? Entwicklungen und Weichenstellungen in Deutschland, Österreich und der Schweiz
Arrangers and orchestrators
Declining Gender Differences in Low-Wage Employment in Germany, Austria and Switzerland
Germany's Vocational Education and Training System in Transformation
Institutional Change and Globalization
Jenseits von Anpassungsdruck und Lernen
Institutions and Collective Actors in the Provision of Training
Switzerland Adjustment Politics Within Institutional Constraints
How Institutions Evolve
Corporatism and change
Eine verborgene Klammer der schweizerischen Berufsbildungspolitik
Die Internationalisierung der föderalistischen Bildungspolitik
Two countries—one system of vocational education? A comparison of the apprenticeship reform in the commercial sector in Switzerland and Germany
Economic regulatory reforms in Switzerland
Contemporary challenges to the German vocational training system
Small States and Skill Specificity
Why Are German Employers Associations Declining
The Politics of Institutional Change
Institutional change in varieties of capitalism
Taking Temporality Seriously
Political Science and the Three New Institutionalisms
| Unique citing works | 33 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,06 |
| Citation span | 2010 - 2026 (17) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 33 |