Parties, elections, and policy reforms in western Europe : voting for social pacts / Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly.

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Main Author: Hamann, Kerstin
Other Authors: Kelly, John
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, ©2011.
Series:Routledge research in comparative politics ; 36.
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Table of Contents:
  • The puzzle of social pacts
  • The institutional political economy of social pacts : a critical appraisal
  • The political logic of social pacts
  • Governments, voters, and social pacts in Western Eeurope
  • The divergent trajectories of social pacts in the LMEs : Ireland and the UK
  • Social democracy between pacts and legislation in scandinavia : Sweden and Finland
  • Cycles of social pacts in the Mediterranean economies : Spain and Italy
  • Tripartism under duress in coordinated market economies : Germany and Austria
  • The electoral politics of social pacts.