Re-regulating the Single Market: national varieties of capitalism and their responses to Europeanization
结合比较政治经济学与欧洲化文献,分析奥地利、法国、德国和荷兰如何因工会与雇主组织的权力和偏好不同,对欧盟服务自由化引发的跨国工人工资重新监管产生不同回应。
The article combines insights from the literature on comparative political economy with recent advances in the literature on the effects of Europeanization on member states. Empirically, it analyses the national re-regulation of wages for workers posted transnationally in the framework of the European Union's Liberalization of Service Provision. It is argued that the organizational power of trade unions and employers' associations and their preferences critically shape the respective national response strategies in Austria, France, Germany and the Netherlands. Different "models' of politico-economic governance therefore generate divergent responses to the common impetus of EU-induced economic liberalization based on the domestic configuration of relevant interest associations. Statist and strongly neo-corporatist systems produce swift and protectionist responses, while intermediate neo-corporatist systems generate liberal re-regulations, highlighting the challenges and institutional problems of unions within these systems, particularly in Germany.