Title: 'A New Century of Corporatism?' Corporatism in Spain and Portugal
Abstract: Abstract This article analyses the resurgence of national-level social bargaining in Portugal and Spain. It argues that this development was the result of the reorientation of the strategies of the social actors. In a new economic and political context, marked by a process of institutional learning and the increasing autonomy by unions from political parties, trade unions have supported social bargaining as a defensive strategy to retake the initiative and influence policy outcomes. The incentives leading governments and employers to agree to new social pacts reflect their failure to control wages in a relatively fragmented and decentralised wage setting. Finally, co-operation among the social actors has been helped by the emergence of state institutions for tripartite macroeconomic and social bargaining. Keywords: Social bargaininginstitutional learningtrade unionswagessocial actorstripartite macroeconomic bargaining
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-07-01
Language: en
Type: article
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