What is Alive and What is Dead in the Theory of Corporatism

Baccaro, Lucio

doi:10.1046/j.1467-8543.2003.00294.x

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“…En su momento, los pactos sociales resultaron altamente efectivos para gestionar la expansión del modelo de acumulación fordista-industrial de posguerra (Winkler 1977;Korpi 1978;Panitch 1979;1980). Pero, de manera un tanto paradójica, y a partir de un giro conceptual y operativo ocurrido en la década de los noventa, también han servido para racionalizarlo (Baccaro 2003). La orientación hacia el consenso en la construcción de políticas públicas ha sedimentado en numerosos países europeos, incluso en algunos inicialmente ajenos a esta tradición, como Irlanda.…”

Section: Pactos Sociales E Intercambio Políticounclassified

Crisis económica y deterioro de los pactos sociales en el sur de Europa: Los casos de España y Portugal

Begega¹,

Balbona²

2015

Rev. int. sociol.

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ResumenLos pactos sociales han sustentado la agenda de reformas socioeconómicas en la mayor parte de países de Europa occidental a lo largo de las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, la irrupción de la crisis económica ha erosionado la orientación general hacia el acuerdo. Desde 2008 se ha producido una deriva desde la «negociación hacia la imposición», que ha resultado particularmente intensa en el Sur de Europa. En España y Portugal, la puesta en marcha de reformas unilaterales por parte de los gobiernos bajo la vigilancia de las instituciones comunitarias ha provocado el debilitamiento de los pactos sociales. El artículo evalúa la reconfiguración de los equilibrios entre gobiernos y agentes sociales en estos dos países en el contexto de la crisis económica. Para ello, se analiza la emergencia de una nueva dinámica de intercambio político corporatista que combina el diálogo discontinuo y de corto alcance con la confrontación. PalabRas claveAgentes sociales; Conflicto sociolaboral; Diálogo social; Gobiernos; Intercambio político corporatista. abstRactIn most European countries, the reform agenda on socioeconomic issues has been backed on social pacts throughout the last decades. However, the upsurge of the economic crisis has hampered this general orientation towards agreement and consensus. From 2008 and on there has been a transformation «from negotiation to imposition» which has been particularly severe in Southern Europe. In Spain and Portugal, the implementation of unilateral reforms by the governments under the surveillance of the European institutions has provoked the weakening of social pacts. The article evaluates the reconfiguration of the relation between governments and social partners in these two countries as a consequence of the economic crisis. It also analyses the emergence of a new dynamic of corporatist political exchange which combines irregular and short-range dialogue with confrontation.

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Crisis económica y deterioro de los pactos sociales en el sur de Europa: Los casos de España y Portugal

Begega¹,

Balbona²

2015

Rev. int. sociol.

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“…These shifts can be seen as a return to more corporatist forms of government, where an authoritarian state relates to a few powerful interest groups (typically business or religious) at the expense of the broader civil society (Kilby 2004;Baccaro 2003;Kamal 2012;Howell 2012b). This mirrors an earlier crackdown on civil society in the 1930s when many international and local NGOs' activities were severely curtailed with the rise of authoritarian governments (Davies 2008, Kilby 2004).…”

Section: The State Is Backmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These new state structures are referred to variously as neostructuralism (Murray and Overton 2011) and a new form of corporatism (Kilby 2004;Baccaro 2003). While Peck (2004) still refers to neoliberalism, he acknowledges that there may be many neoliberalisms, depending on local context, now based around the strong state.…”

Section: The State Is Backmentioning

confidence: 99%

NGOs and Political Change: A History of the Australian Council for International Development

Kilby¹

2015

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“…Peak-level corporatist arrangements regarding wages and income policy have been limited. Hence, Denmark is not like other European member states, where governments and social partners signed 'social pacts' during the 1990s (Ebbinghaus & Hassel 1997;Fajertag & Pochet 2000;Bacarro 2003), and Denmark has never had a permanent general tripartite body, such as the socio-economic councils seen in Austria, the Netherlands, Portugal or Spain. However, there have been plenty of other national-level tripartite activities.…”

Section: Peak-level Corporatism In Denmarkmentioning

confidence: 99%