Parties, elections, and policy reforms in western Europe : voting for social pacts /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Hamann, Kerstin
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Other Authors:	Kelly, John
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, [2011]
Series:	Routledge research in comparative politics ; 36.
Subjects:	Consensus (Social sciences) > Europe, Western. Political parties > Europe, Western. Elections > Europe, Western. Europe, Western > Politics and government > 1989- Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

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.