's decision making has the potential to foster workers' political participation in civic society. Our study for Germany indeed …

Germany. The final discussion focuses on the ideological permutation of co-determination changing its socialist embeddedness …-Saxon terminology, going back to S. and B. Webb will be compared with the German vocabulary of Wirtschaftsdemokratie and co-determination …. The following sections deal with the peculiarities of German co-determination. First the emergence of co-determination is …

-level codetermination and foreign owners. Works councils are associated with higher productivity in domestic-owned establishments while they …

German works councils provide a highly developed mechanism for codetermination designed to increase trust and …. Comparing domestic- and foreign-owned firms in Germany, we find that works councils and managers in foreign-owned firms are less …

service sector and in eastern Germany, and its extent is increasing dramatically. …