In response to the last recession, the European Union (EU) adopted a new economic
governance (NEG) regime. An influential stream of EU social policy literature argues that …

Over the past 30 years, state intervention to reshape employment relations has become a
generalized feature of contemporary capitalism. A broad neoliberal reconstruction of the …

Until recently, the political influence of trade unions primarily relied on ties to labour-friendly
political parties. Since the 1990s, however, party-union relations have deteriorated, forcing …

This book examines the new economic governance (NEG) regime that the EU adopted after
2008. Its novel research design captures the supranational formulation of NEG prescriptions …

Drawing interview material, together with extensive data from the authors' original social
movement database, this book examines the development of social movements in …

Why do governments facing economic and financial crises sometimes engage organised
producer groups in policymaking through social concertation, and sometimes proceed …

This thesis investigates the trajectory and causes of change in the dynamics of interest
intermediation between governments, trade unions and employers' organisations in …

Through a meta-analysis of all publicly available research over a span of 25 years, the
article assesses the productivity impact of the employment protection legislation reforms that …

Chapter 6 shows that workers' wages and employment relations were, until the 2008 crisis,
shaped by horizontal market pressures rather than direct political vertical EU interventions in …

Key EU agencies have successfully urged member states to scale back employment
protection legislation as a solution to unemployment. The economic arguments for this …