Surviving Globalization? : Perspectives for the German Economic Model

Stefan Beck

ISBN 10: 1402030630 / ISBN 13: 9781402030635

Editore: Springer New York, Springer US, 2005

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - 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 Göste Esping-Andersen - 'conservative-liberal' form of welfare state.

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• Titolo: Surviving Globalization? : Perspectives for the German Economic Model
• Editore: Springer New York, Springer US
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1402030630
• ISBN 13: 9781402030635
• Rilegatura: Buch
• Condizione: Neu
• Dimensioni: 241 L x 160 A x 19 P (millimetri) 241 millimetri di larghezza per 160 millimetri di altezza per 19 millimetri di profondità
• Peso: 547 grammi

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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 Göste Esping-Andersen – “conservative-liberal” form of welfare state.

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Acknowledgements.- 1. Introduction (Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes and Christoph Scherrer).- 2. Can Germany Learn from the USA? (Christoph Scherrer).- 3. After the Miracle (Stefan Beck).- 4. The Dynamics of Industrial Restructuring (Frank Klobes).- 5. The German Way (Michael Fichter).- 6. Disentangling Deutschland AG (Christian Kellermann).- 7. Transforming the Welfare State (Kai Mosebach).- 8. Erosion of the Tax Basis (Kai Mosebach).- 9. European Integration (Gülay Çaglar).- 10. Explaining the Dynamics of Red-Green Economic Reforms (Stefan Beck, Christoph Scherrer).- 11. Conclusion (Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes and Christoph Scherrer).- Subject Index.