Varieties of capitalism and Europeanization : national response strategies to the single European market by Menz, Georg, 1973- instant download

Varieties of capitalism and Europeanization : national response strategies to the single European market by Menz, Georg, 1973- instant download

1 online resource (ix, 280 pages), Drawing on detailed case studies of ten European countries, this volume argues that both strongly neocorporatist systems of political-economic governance and statist systems are capable of creating swift, comprehensive and thorough national re-regulations. This applies to Austria and France, but also Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Belgium, and Luxembourg. By contrast, countries with less strongly embedded neocorporatist structures, in which due to organizational deficiencies trade unions face difficulties blocking employer demands, create liberal response strategies, permitting a stratification of wage levels. Hence, both Germany and the Netherlands implemented liberal business-friendly re-regulations, Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-264) and index, Print version record