Aus Gewerkschaftsperspektive beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit den umkämpften Machtverhältnissen des deutschen Modells der Sozial- bzw. Konfliktpartnerschaft. In welchen Dynamiken sich die Arbeitsmarktparteien im Laufe der Zeit begegneten und was daraus für das Handeln im Heute mitgenommen...

Aus Gewerkschaftsperspektive beschäftigt sich dieser Beitrag mit den umkämpften Machtverhältnissen des deutschen Modells der Sozial- bzw. Konfliktpartnerschaft. In welchen Dynamiken sich die Arbeitsmarktparteien im Laufe der Zeit begegneten undwas daraus für das Handeln imHeute...

We combine two economic/political concepts to explain how U. S. crony corporatism is linked to the recent evidence of increased vertical integration in global value chains. (Mapping Global Value Chains, ECB Working Paper No. 1677, Koen de Backer, S. Miroudot, SSRN, 2014.).We conclude that the...

The aim of this paper is to shed light on the paths, directions, and ensuing degrees of technological adoption fostered by trade unions or, alternatively, forms of resistance thereof, in the so called 'Italian Motor-Valley', a distinctive technological district located in the outskirts of...

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for...

This paper discusses the historical and social origins of the bifurcation in the political institutions of China and Western Europe. An important factor, recognized in the literature, is that China centralized state institutions very early on, while Europe remained politically fragmented for...

The trajectory of François Perroux across the Vichy regime poses about all possible range of methodological issues to the historian of ideas: individual versus collective biography, ideational versus ideological reading, internal versus external analysis, etc. The chapter outlines key elements...

This paper focuses on the transferability of policy feedback and responsiveness theories. These theories have enjoyed a great deal of scholarly interest in the past years and are widely applied in different country contexts. However, this theory transfer tends to be more focused on the empirical...

Between 2000 and 2020, the share of US bed capacity at independent hospitals dropped from 42% to 19% – a rapid corporatization of care. We study whether this restructuring of the industry in favor of larger firms improved hospital profitability and quality. We combine novel, patient-level data...

This chapter encourages readers to think of agricultural communities in the era of climate change-induced droughts and population growth similar to when western Pennsylvania’s steel industry collapsed in the 1980s. If water must flow uphill to money, it should not leave a dust bowl behind....

"A transnational history of corporatism-a "third path" between capitalism and communism-centered on mid-twentieth century Brazil. Following the First World War, there was a widespread feeling that the unchecked free-market competition had given rise to financial crisis, social unrest, and...

Context: International scholarship and policy tend to depict national structures governing Vocational Education and Training (VET) as uniform and devoid of internal differences. This macro perspective neglects the numerous processes at the meso and micro level that shape the structure and...

Context: International scholarship and policy tend to depict national structures governing Vocational Education and Training (VET) as uniform and devoid of internal differences. This macro perspective neglects the numerous processes at the meso and micro level that shape the structure and...

The instability of liberal democracies both in Europe and in the Americans partly brought about by the COVID-19 Pandemic has shown the limits of this construct in terms of protecting the core values of liberalism itself, such as freedom of speech and the protection of private property. Riots in...