Title: Social Partnership and Democratic Legitimacy in Ireland
Abstract: Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Notes See Paul Teague & Jimmy Donaghey, ‘Why has Irish Social Partnership Survived?’ British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 47, No. 1 (2009), pp. 55–78, for an overview of the debates. See Philippe Schmitter, ‘Still the Century of Corporatism?’ The Review of Politics, Vol. 36, No. 1 (1974), pp. 85–131, and Gerhard Lemhbruch, ‘Liberal Corporatism and Party Government’, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1 (1977), pp. 91–126, as well as edited volumes such as Wolfgang Streeck & Philippe Schmitter (eds), Private Interest Government (Sage, 1984) and Alan Cawson (ed.), Organized Interests and the State: Studies in Meso-Corporatism (Sage, 1985). Lucio Baccaro, ‘What is Alive and What is Dead in the Theory of Corporatism?’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 41, No. 4 (2003), pp. 683–706; Paul Teague & James Donaghey, ‘The Irish Experiment in Social Partnership’, in Harry Katz, Wonduck Lee & Joohee Lee (eds), The New Structure of Labor Relations: Tripartism and Decentralization (Cornell University Press, 2004), pp. 10–37; William K. Roche, ‘Social Partnership in Ireland and New Social Pacts’, Industrial Relations, Vol. 46, No. 3 (2007), pp. 395–425. Jimmy Donaghey & Paul Teague, ‘The Mixed Fortunes of Irish Unions: Living with the Paradoxes of Social Partnership’, Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 28, No. 1 (2007), pp. 19–41; Teague & Donaghey, ‘The Irish Experiment’; Roche, ‘Social Partnership in Ireland’. Joe Durkan, ‘Social Consensus and Incomes Policies’, Economic and Social Review, Vol. 23, No. 3 (1992), pp. 347–63; Joe Durkan & Colm Harmon, ‘Social Consensus, Incomes Policies and Unemployment’, UCD Economics Department Working paper, 1996; Seamus O'Cinneide, ‘Democracy and the Constitution’, Administration, Vol. 46, No. 4 (1998), pp. 41–58; Richard Bruton, ‘Paper on Social Partnership’, http://www.richardbruton.net/cpartnership.asp (accessed 22 January 2008). Robert Dahl, Who Governs? (Yale University Press, 1961); John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Liberty, Representative Government (Dent, 1920) Charles Sabel, Local Partnerships and Social Innovation: Ireland (OECD, 1996); Rory O'Donnell, ‘Public Policy and Social Partnership’, in Joseph Dunne, Attracta Ingram & Frank Litton, Questioning Ireland (IPA, 2000), pp. 187–213; Baccaro, ‘What is Alive and What is Dead’; Lucio Baccaro, ‘Civil Society Meets the State: Towards Associational Democracy?’, Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 4, No. 2 (2006), pp. 185–208. Rory O'Donnell & Damian Thomas, ‘Ireland in the 1990s: Policy Concertation Triumphant’, in Stefan Berger & Hugh Compston (eds), Policy Concertation and Social Partnership in Western Europe (Berghahn Books, 2002), pp. 167–89. Archon Fung & Erik Olin Wright, ‘Deepening Democracy: Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance’, Politics and Society, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2001), pp. 5–42. James Fearon, ‘Deliberation as Discussion’, in John Elster (ed.), Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1998), pp. 44–68. John Elster (ed.), Deliberative Democracy (Cambridge University Press, 1998); John Bessette, The Mild Voice of Reason: Deliberative Democracy and American National Government (University of Chicago Press, 1994). Fritz Scharpf, ‘Economic Integration, Democracy and the Welfare State’, Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 4, No. 1 (1997), pp. 18–36; Fritz Scharpf, Interdependence and Democratic Legitimation, MPIfG Working Paper 98/2, September 1998; and Fritz Scharpf, ‘Legitimacy in the Multi-actor European Polity’, in Morten Egeberg & Peter Laegreid (eds), Organizing Political Institutions. Essays for Johan P. Olsen (Scandinavian University Press, 1997), pp. 261–88. Scharpf, Interdependence and Democratic Legitimation. Bernard Manin, The Principles of Representative Government (Cambridge University Press, 1997). Paul Hirst, ‘Representative Democracy and its Limits’, Political Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 2 (1988), pp. 190–205. Carlos Santiago Nino, The Constitution of Deliberative Democracy (Yale University Press, 1998); Joshua Cohen, ‘Democracy and Liberty’, in Elster (ed.), Deliberative Democracy, pp. 185–231. See Richard R. Lau & Gerald M. Pomper, ‘Effects of Negative Campaigning on Turnout in U.S. Senate Elections, 1988–1998’, The Journal of Politics, Vol. 63, No. 3 (2001), pp. 804–19; and Kevin Moloney & Rob Colmer, ‘Does Political PR Enhance or Trivialise Democracy? The UK General Election 2001 as Contest between Presentation and Substance’, Journal of Marketing Management, Vol. 17, Nos. 9–10 (2001), pp. 957–68. Philip Pavin & Declan McHugh, ‘Defending Representative Democracy: Parties and the Future of Political Engagement in Britain’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 58, No. 3 (2005), pp. 632–55. There is a well established field of literature in this area. However, key works include the seminal pieces by Schmitter, ‘Still the Century’ and Lemhbruch, ‘Liberal Corporatism’, as well as edited volumes such as Streeck & Schmitter, Private Interest Government and Cawson, Organized Interests and the State. Alan Cawson, Corporatism and Political Theory (Basil Blackwell, 1986); Philippe Schmitter, ‘Democratic Theory and Neo-Corporatist Practice’, Social Research, Vol. 50, No. 4 (1983), pp. 101–13, 885–928; Paul Hirst, ‘Can Secondary Associations Enhance Democratic Governance?’, in Joshua Cohen & Joel Rogers (eds), Associations and Democracy, Vol. 1 (Verso, 1995). Colin Crouch, ‘Neo-Corporatism and Democracy’, in Colin Crouch & Wolfgang Streeck (eds), The Diversity of Democracy (Edward Elgar, 2006) pp. 46–70. Charles Maier, ‘Preconditions for Corporatism’, in John H. Goldthorpe (ed.), Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism: Studies in the Political Economy of West European Nations (Clarendon Press, 1984), pp. 39–59. For most of the period since independence was gained in 1921 from the UK, the key dividing line in Irish politics was ‘the national question’ which initially was dominated by whether the country was a republic or the Head of State was the British Monarch. After this was resolved in 1936, postures over the position of Northern Ireland became the key issue. Peter Mair, ‘The Autonomy of the Political: The Development of the Irish Party Political System’, Comparative Politics, Vol. 11, No. 4 (1979), pp. 445–65 Joseph Lee, Ireland 1912–1985: Politics and Society (Cambridge University Press, 1989). Niamh Hardiman, Pay Politics and Economic performance in Ireland, 1970–1987 (Clarendon Press, 1988). Richard Sinnoit, ‘Interpretations of the Irish Party System’, European Journal of Political Research, Vol. 12, No. 3 (1984), pp. 289–307; Thomas Garvin, The Evolution of Irish Nationalist Politics (Gill and Macmillan, 2005). Michael Marsh & Paul Mitchell, ‘Office, Votes and then Policy: Hard Choices for Political Parties in the Republic of Ireland’, in Wolfgang C. Muller & Kaare Strom (eds), Office or Votes? How Political Parties in Western Europe make Hard Decisions (Cambridge University Press, 1999). Ray MacSharry & Padraig White, The Making of the Celtic Tiger (Mercier Press, 2000). Michael Gallagher, ‘Politics in Ireland after the 1989 General Election’, Parliamentary Affairs, Vol. 43 (1990), pp. 348–65. The Progressive Democrats is a party caused by a splinter in Fianna Fail in 1985. It generally is viewed as the most free-market oriented of all Irish political parties. Though as Karen Giland-Lutz, ‘Irish Party Competition in the New Millennium: Change or Plus ca Change?’, Irish Political Studies, Vol. 18, No. 1 (2003), pp. 40–59, highlights, even at this in comparative terms it is centrist in nature. Democratic Left was a short-lived left-wing party, formed in 1992 to break the link between the Irish Worker's Party and paramilitarism. In 1999, it merged with the centre-left Labour party. Donaghey & Teague, ‘The Mixed fortunes of Irish Unions’; Teague & Donaghey, ‘The Irish Experiment’; Roche, ‘Social Partnership in Ireland’. Scharpf, Interdependence and Democratic Legitimation. Other key functions include preventing leap-frogging, poaching, spreading the costs of economic adjustment and promoting industrial peace. Jelle Visser, ‘Two Cheers for Corporatism, One for the Market: Industrial Relations, Wage Moderation and Job Growth in the Netherlands’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 36, No. 2 (1998), pp. 269–92; Lars Calmfors & John Driffel, ‘Centralisation of Wage Bargaining and Macroeconomic Performance’, Economic Policy, Vol. 6, No. 1 (1988), pp. 13–61. Until 1998, the rate was 32 per cent for indigenous companies. Alastair McPherson & William K. Roche, ‘Peripheral location equals localized labour? Multinationals and the internationalization of training and development in Ireland’, International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 8, No. 4 (1997), pp. 369–84. Olivier Blanchard, ‘Comments on: “Catching Up with the Leaders: The Irish Hare” by Patrick Honohan and Brendan Walsh’, Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, No. 1 (2002), pp. 58–66. Rory O'Donnell, Ireland's Economic Transformation Industrial Policy, European Integration and Social Partnership, University of Pittsburgh, Centre for European Studies Working Paper No. 2, 1998. Alberto Alesina & Lawrence Summers, ‘Central Bank Independence and Macroeconomic Performance’, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Vol. 25, No. 1 (1993), pp. 151–62. See Paul Teague, Economic Citizenship in the European Union (Routledge, 1999); Bob Hancke & Martin Rhodes, ‘EMU and Labor Market Institutions in Europe: The Rise and Fall of National Social Pacts’, Work and Occupations, Vol. 32, No. 2 (2005), pp. 196–228; Philippe Pochet & Giuseppe Fajertag, Social Pacts in Europe, New Dynamics (ETUI/OSE, 2000); Anke Hassel, Wage Setting, Social Pacts and the Euro: A New Role for the State (Amsterdam University Press, 2006). Peter Katzenstein, Small States in World Markets: Industrial Policy in Europe (Cornell University Press, 1985). Alan Barrett, Adele Bergin & David Duffy, ‘The Labour Market Characteristics and Labour Market Impacts of Immigration In Ireland’, Economic and Social Review, Vol. 37, No. 1 (2006), pp. 1–26. Kieran Allen, The Celtic Tiger: The Myth of Social Partnership (Manchester University Press, 2000); Peadar Kirby, The Celtic Tiger in Distress (Palgrave Macmilan, 2001); Denis O'Hearn, Inside the Celtic Tiger: The Irish Economy and the Asian Model (Pluteo Press, 1998). See Teague & Donaghey, ‘Why has Irish Social’. Fung & Wright, ‘Deepening Democracy’. Elster, Deliberative Democracy. Marc Hooghe, ‘The Rebuke of Thersites. Deliberative Democracy under Conditions of Inequality’, Acta Politica, Vol. 34, No. 4 (1999), pp. 287–301. Joshua Cohen & Joel Rogers, ‘Power and Reason’, in Archon Fung & Erik Olin Wright (eds), Deepening Democracy: Institutional Innovations in Empowered Participatory Governance (Verso, 2000), pp. 237–55. Sabel, Local Partnerships; O'Donnell, ‘Public Policy and Social Partnership’; Baccaro, ‘Civil Society Meets the State’; O'Donnell & Thomas, ‘Ireland in the 1990s’. Rory O'Donnell & Damian Thomas, ‘Partnership and Policy Making’, in Sean Healy and Brigid Reynolds (eds), Social Policy in Ireland (Oak Tree Press/CORI, 1998), pp. 117–46; NESF, A Framework for Partnership: Enriching Strategic Consensus through Participation (National Economic and Social Forum, 1997); Sabel, Local Partnerships; Baccaro, ‘Civil Society Meets the State’. See Jimmy Donaghey, ‘Deliberation, Employment Relations and Social Partnership in the Republic of Ireland’, Economic and Industrial Democracy, Vol. 29, No. 1 (2008), pp. 35–63; and Niamh Hardiman, ‘Politics and Social Partnership: Flexible Network Governance’, Economic and Social Review, Vol 37, No. 3 (2006), pp. 343–74. Hardiman, ‘Politics and Social Partnership’. Rory O'Donnell & Colm O'Reardon, ‘Social Partnership in Ireland's Economic Transformation’, in Philippe Pochet & Guiseppe Fajertag (eds), Social Pacts in Europe – New Dynamics (ETUI, 2000). Fung & Wright, ‘Deepening Democracy’. O'Donnell & O'Reardon, ‘Social Partnership’. Donaghey, ‘Deliberation, Employment Relations’; Baccaro, ‘Civil Society Meets the State’. Donaghey, ‘Deliberation, Employment Relations’. See Paul Teague, ‘Social Partnership and Local Development in Ireland: The Limits to Deliberation’, British Journal of Industrial Relations, Vol. 44, No. 3 (2006), pp. 421–43. Ivan Turok, ‘Area-based Partnerships in Ireland: Collaborative Planning in Practice?’, Paper presented at EURA Conference, Copenhagen, May 2001. Meitheal is an Irish language word without direct equivalent in English that refers to the Irish agricultural concept of individuals bringing together equipment and labour to save each other's crops during harvest. Teague, ‘Social Partnership and Local Development’. Benjamin Goldfrank, ‘The Fragile Flower of Local Democracy: A Case Study of Decentralisation/Participation in Montevideo’, Politics and Society, Vol. 30, No. 1 (2002), pp. 51–83. Kirsten Hamann & John Kelly, ‘Party Politics and the Re-emergence of Social Pacts in Western Europe’, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 40, No. 8 (2007), pp. 971–94. Vivien Schmidt, ‘Does Discourse Matter in the Politics of Welfare State Adjustment’, Comparative Political Studies, Vol. 35, No. 2 (2002), pp. 168–93.
Publication Year: 2009
Publication Date: 2009-03-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref']
Access and Citation
Cited By Count: 22
AI Researcher Chatbot
Get quick answers to your questions about the article from our AI researcher chatbot