Changing Welfare States Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro

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Table of Contents - 8[-] Figures and Tables - 10[-] Preface - 12[-] 1 The Political Economy of Adjustment in Europe - 16[-] The limits of neo-corporatist analysis - 23[-] The approach of this book - 27[-] Methodological issues - 33[-] Conclusion - 36[-] 2 Governments and Wages - A Theoretical Framework - 38[-] Policies on wages - 39[-] Monetary and wage bargaining regimes in the political economy literature - 47[-] Explaining policy choices - 58[-] Conclusion - 61[-] 3 Policy Options and Institutions: How Governments Respond - 62[-] Policy options towards the redistributional power of trade unions: market responses and negotiations - 63[-] The operationalization of variables - 72[-] The relationship between institutional and political accommodation - 82[-] Conclusion - 88[-] 4 Striving ... for Conservatism: The Shift in Monetary Regimes - 92[-] Credibility and the inflation bias - 93[-] European monetary integration as a tool for achieving central bank conservatism - 96[-] Central bank independence, monetary policy and government intervention - 111[-] Government intervention to foster monetary conservatism - 119[-] 5 The Politics of Government Intervention - 122[-] Institutional constraints on governments - 124[-] The shared roots of consensus democracy and corporatist responses: the political fragmentation of trade unions and the role of union-party relations - 133[-] The role of partisanship - 144[-] Conclusion: Negotiated adjustment and the role of political institutions - 150[-] 6 The Responsiveness of Wage Bargaining Institutions - 152[-] Theoretical assumptions about wage flexibility and the role of wage bargaining institutions - 154[-] Priorities of trade unions between employment and real wage protection in wage bargaining - an empirical measure - 158[-] The institutional basis of wage responsiveness - 165[-] Conclusion: Shifting workers\' wage expectations - 182[-] 7 The Interaction between Wage Bargaining Institutions and Government Intervention - 188[-] The responsive wage bargaining regimes: Germany and Austria - 189[-] The non-responsive corporatist countries - 197[-] Adjustment of wage expectations in the non-corporatist countries with non-responsive wage bargaining regimes - 212[-] Conclusion: A comparative view on the dynamic between wage bargaining institutions and government intervention - 230[-] 8 Negotiated Adjustment - A European Approach - 234[-] Policy options towards trade unions\' redistributional power - 236[-] The interaction of institutions and policies - 242[-] The nature of negotiated adjustment: Reinforcing mechanisms of trade union incorporation - 245[-] The German role model - 247[-] The United Kingdom as the European exception - 250[-] Outlook: Implications for adjustment under EMU - 252[-] Appendices - 256[-] Appendix to chapter 3 - 256[-] Appendix to chapter 5 - 258[-] Appendix to chapter 6 - 261[-] Notes - 274[-] Bibliography - 290[-] Index of Names - 318[-] Index of Subjects - 324