Coping with economic integration
Corporatist strategies in Germany and Austria in the 1990s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6406373 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Reinhard Heinisch (0000-0002-0019-2423, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 67-96 |
| Publication date | 2000-07-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402380008425384 |
| OpenAlex | W1987370232 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 10 |
| References cited | 16 |
While Germany is facing the wholesale disorganisation of sectoral collective bargaining, the Austrian social partnership has gained new strength in the 1990s. Comparatively, Austro‐corporatism proved able to undergo a process of skilful adaptation. This divergence in performance poses a puzzle, given Germany's commanding presence both in international markets and in the European Union, and given Austria's traditional hostility to modernisation. This article explains German—Austrian differences in the performance and resilience of corporatist governance in the face of modernisation and market integration in terms of (i) the organisational differences between German and Austrian corporatism (sectoral concentration versus vertical centralisation and little horizontal formalisation); (ii) the long term policy strategies employed by labour unions in either system (co‐determination versus macro‐level policy influence); and (Hi) by the different responses to modernisation chosen by German and Austrian corporatist actors (internal organisational reforms verus becoming modernisation brokers
Centralisation · Corporate governance · Corporatism · Economic growth · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · European union · Europeanisation · General partnership · German · Market economy · Modernization theory · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social partners · Social Partnership · European Socioeconomic and Political Studies · Social and Demographic Issues in Germany · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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Democratic ‘Misfit’? Conceptions of Civil Society Participation in France and the European Union
Party Politics and the Reemergence of Social Pacts in Western Europe
National business associations under stress
Europeanization or Party Politics? Explaining Government Choice for Corporatist Concertation
Corporatism and income inequality in the global economy
Why Did Austrian Business Oppose Welfare Cuts? How the Organization of Interests Shapes Business Attitudes Toward Social Partnership
Crisis and choice in European social democracy
Bargaining Structure, Corporatism and Macroeconomic Performance
Disjoined Partners
Corporatism and change
German capitalism
Ex Oriente Risk
A farewell to corporatism
An ounce of prevention? The reform of the German trade union Federation
The German works council and collective bargaining development since unification1
German Unification and Emerging Divisions within German Employers' Associations
From Semisovereignty to Sovereignty
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| Citations per year | 0.43 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2022 (20) |
| Highly cited | No |