From Social Democracy To Neoliberalism
Subtitle: The Consequences of Party Hegemony in Spain, 1982-1996
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: February 19, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9780312223908
Subjects: Labor And The State; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Europe - Spain & Portugal; Government - Comparative; Political Process - Political Parties; Political Science / Democracy; Labor & Industrial Relations - General; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Western Europe - General; Labor policy; P.S.O.E. (Political party); Spain; Union General de Trabajadores; Uniâon General de Trabajadores de Espaäna
Description: "From Social Democracy to Neoliberalism examines the failure of the Socialist government that held tenure in Spain from 1982 until 1996 to combat unemployment.

Sebastian Royo builds on interviews with policy-makers, business and union leaders, and scholars, as well as an extensive review of the secondary literature, to support a new hypothesis: that the institutional dependence of the main labor union (UGT) on the Spanish Socialist Party led the Socialist government to default repeatedly on promises made to the union. Since the Socialist government's economic strategy hinged on the cooperation of the union, this breakdown in their relationship ultimately doomed the success of their policies.

This book's main theoretical contribution is to high-light an institutional factor that has not been considered in the examination of the effect of political institutions on economies, namely, the autonomy or lack there-of of labor unions from governing parties."--BOOK JACKET.