… of study is the social pact, we will pay particular attention to the media‟s tendency toconflict,
ie their inclination to present the relations between the social and political actors involved in …

… However, throughout the 1980s and 1990s governments and trade unions have engaged
in tripartite negotiations on wages and social policy (social pacts) in a number of European …

… to choose social pacts or pass policies unilaterally. In contrast to studies that view pacts as a
rather … managers but are also composed of political parties interested in winning votes and …

… ‘new politics of welfare’in Western Europe are new nationally negotiated social pacts, designed
… These pacts, which have proliferated since the late 1980s, have major implications for …

… the concessions form part of a political exchange; ends, in that they … on whether today’s social
pacts are a continuation of or a … emerging is a new bargaining agenda whose outline is not …

… structure but also in its decent work agenda, encompassing the promotion of standards and
… changes in the ‘political exchange’ between governments and the social partners over time. …

… that social pacts emerge as a response to a collective action problem. Political economies
… To put competitiveness at the top of the economic and social agenda was one our greatest …

… on political economy and party politics, the book sheds new light on the dynamics of social
pacts … of political science, economics, political economy, European Studies and comparative …

… I hypothesize that pacts are more likely to be struck nearer to elections and with greater Left
… dataset on social pacts in the OECD, 1974–2000, I find evidence that the onset of pacts is …

While most scholars analyze European Union politicization as a process that shapes public
opinion, little attention has been paid to political strategies. In this article, I focus on …