Surviving Globalization? - Perspectives for the German Economic Model (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

society, and state (Streeck, 1999; Simonis, 1998). Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating force of the German Model after WWII was based on the adoption and transformation of corporatist political structures from National Socialist Germany. Liberal capitalism was (re)introduced under political competition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who eventually found common ground in the politically mediated compromise between capital and labor: "This compromise was negotiated and institutionalized at a time when the communist wing of the workers movement and the authoritarian voices of German capital - for various reasons - were excluded from political participation" (Streeck, 1999, p. 15; translation: SB). The partnership between firms and unions manifested itself in manifold institutional structures. Apart from the social partners' autonomy in matters of wage policy, worker codetermination at plant level and in operations is regarded as one of the special achievements of the German Model and has contributed substantially to social peace. The political coordination forms of concerted action, round tables, as well as modernization and crisis cartels gave birth to a highly complex political decision-making structure which, based on a federalist setup, has rightly been called "negotiation state" (Esser, 1998, p. 123). Second, the material foundation of this "Social Democratic class compromise" (Buci-Glucksmann & Therborn, 1981) consisted in the Federal Republic's - in the words of Goste Esping-Andersen - "conservative-liberal" form of welfare state."

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Imprint:	Springer-Verlag New York
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2010
First published:	2005
Editors:	Stefan Beck • Frank Klobes • Christoph Scherrer
Dimensions:	240 x 160 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	243
Edition:	Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13:	978-1-4419-5262-2
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political science & theory Books > Business & Economics > Economics > Political economy Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Books > Business & Economics > Economics > International economics > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4419-5262-4
Barcode:	9781441952622

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