Wednesday, July 8, 2015
JM (13 rue de l'Université)
The paper focuses on coalitional dynamics and policy changes (since the 1980s) in several arenas of relevance to growth regimes, specifically, industrial relations, education and training, and labor market policy. It focuses on three cases Germany, Sweden and the
Netherlands (all CMEs broadly defined) provide an interesting spectrum of developments – with Germany representing a case of relative stability in the traditional (postwar) growth regime and the core producer-group coalition behind it, while the Netherlands and Sweden
both represent cases of rather significant changes in the dominant growth regime since the 1980s, though moving in different directions. The conditions, coalitions and paths for changes are traced in the paper.
Netherlands (all CMEs broadly defined) provide an interesting spectrum of developments – with Germany representing a case of relative stability in the traditional (postwar) growth regime and the core producer-group coalition behind it, while the Netherlands and Sweden
both represent cases of rather significant changes in the dominant growth regime since the 1980s, though moving in different directions. The conditions, coalitions and paths for changes are traced in the paper.
