The trajectory of institutional change in Germany, 1979–2009

Bibliographic Data

ID6290291
AuthorsGrégory Jackson (0000-0002-1593-8988, Fugro (Norway), corresponding author), Arndt Sorge (State University of New York at Potsdam, corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume19
Issue8
Pages1146-1167
Publication date2012-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/13501763.2012.709009
OpenAlexW2059239831
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited35

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