The Evolution of Bargaining under Austerity: Political Change in Contemporary French and German Labor-Market Reform

作者: Mark I. Vail

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摘要: This paper examines the relationship among economic context, political institutions, and dynamics of adjustment within national models capitalism through an analysis recent labor-market reform in France and Germany. It argues that a climate of austerity since 1970s, combined with legacies earlier policy-making their failure to confront challenges slow economic growth high rates unemployment, have led qualitative shifts incentives facing government officials key interest groups. These produced new patterns politics – “competitive interventionism” “conflictual corporatism” in Germany generally stable formal institutional configurations. The paper explores implications French German experience for scholarly understandings of policy making advanced industrial societies climate economic austerity how it differs from under conditions prosperity. In light of this analysis, calls rethinking prevailing conceptions between formal structures bargaining state–society relations across varying historical contexts. Anhand der Analyse jungsten Arbeitsmarktreformen Frankreich und Deutschland diskutiert dieses Papier den Wandel nationaler Kapitalismusmodelle vor dem Hintergrund von wirtschaftlichem Kontext, politischen Institutionen Dynamiken Anpassung. Im Kern wird argumentiert, dass sich die Praferenzen Politikern Reprasentanten Interessengruppen verschoben haben. Diese Praferenzverschiebungen beruhen auf Klima wirtschaftlicher Austeritat seit 1970er Jahren, verbunden mit Erblast fruherer Politikmuster deren mangelnder Fahigkeit, Problemen langsamen Wachstums hoher Arbeitslosigkeit gerecht zu werden. Daraus resultierten neue Politikmuster, im als "kompetitiver Interventionismus" (competitive interventionism) Falle Frankreichs "konfliktarer Korporatismus" (conflictual corporatism) Deutschlands umschrieben Das allgemeine Implikationen dieser Befunde fur das politokonomische Verstandnis Wirtschaftspolitik unter verandernden Randbedingungen. Insbesondere geht es dabei um Verhaltnis zwischen formalen institutionellen Konfigurationen politischer Aushandlung staatlichen gesellschaftlichen Akteuren.

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