Varieties of capitalism and europeanization: national response strategies to the single european market

Europeanization has often been conceived as a top-down process, necessitatingimplementation and adjustment at the national level. However, Europeanizationcan also be conditioned by bottom-up national initiatives. While recent endeavors in comparative political economy have emphasized the resilience of coordinated market economies, few detailed empirical studies have examined to date exactly how different European systems of political-economic governance cope with and respond to an European impetus for liberalization. This original study of the impact of the EU-induced liberalization of service provision on member states argues that innovative national re-regulatory strategies may be implemented in response to Europeanization. In permitting any company registered in an EU member state to provide services throughout Europe, new possibilities were created for the transnational posting of workers from low-wage to high-wage countries. However, high-wage countries could re-regulate the wage levels applicable to such employees. The exact nature of such response strategy is coloured by the respective institutional power that labour market interest associations like trade unions and employer associations command. Therefore, different institutionalised varieties of capitalism generate distinct re-regulations of the Single European Market INDICE: 1. European Liberalization, National Varieties of Capitalism, and Re-Regulation 2. Europeanization Meets Organized Capitalism 3. The Institutional Power of Unions and Employers 4. National Response Strategies to Transnational Challenges: Developments in France, Germany, and Austria 5. Response Strategies Elsewhere in Northern Europe and a Comparison of the Response Capacity of National Models 6. Implications and Conclusion Appendix A: Industrial Relations in Europe Appendix B: A Discussion of the Two Institutionalist Approaches and a Detailed Introduction to the Hypotheses Derived From Them

• ISBN: 978-0-19-955103-3
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Rústica
• Páginas: 304
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés