Parties, elections, and policy reforms in western Europe
Subtitle: voting for social pacts
By: Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly.
Contributors: Kelly, John.
Series: Routledge research in comparative politics -- 36
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon, [England]; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 226
ISBN-13: 9780415581950; 9780203848654
Subjects: Consensus (Social sciences) -- Europe, Western; Political parties -- Europe, Western; Elections -- Europe, Western; Europe, Western -- Politics and government -- 1989-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The puzzle of social pacts; title: The institutional political economy of social pacts : a critical appraisal; title: The political logic of social pacts; title: Governments, voters, and social pacts in Western Eeurope; title: The divergent trajectories of social pacts in the LMEs : Ireland and the UK; title: Social democracy between pacts and legislation in scandinavia : Sweden and Finland; title: Cycles of social pacts in the Mediterranean economies : Spain and Italy; title: Tripartism under duress in coordinated market economies : Germany and Austria; title: The electoral politics of social pacts.