This book has both empirical and theoretical goals. The primary empirical goal is to examine
the evolution of industrial relations in Western Europe from the end of the 1970s up to the …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

The political‐economic institutions that have traditionally reconciled economic efficiency with
social solidarity in the advanced industrial countries, and specifically in the so‐called …

What is the impact of business interest groups on the formulation of public social policies?
This paper reviews the literature in political science, history, and sociology on this question …

This article proposes a new interpretation of the evolution of German industrial relations
focusing on the interaction between macroeconomic dynamics and industrial relations …

Party and Democracy questions why political parties today are held in such low estimation in
advanced democracies. The first part of the volume reviews theoretical motivations behind …

This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe,
while paying close attention to the oeCD and the European Union as proliferators of new …

" An attempt by political economists to analyze the fundamental causes of the euro crisis,
determine how it can be fixed, and consider what likely futures lie ahead for the currency …

Welfare state reform has been a focus of domestic policy making in many European
countries in recent years. Representing almost a third of the EU population and two …

In the context of the new Digital Economy, defined by the massive dissemination of
information and commercial content on the Internet and by the new relationship rules …