Surviving Globalization?

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-vii

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2. Introduction

   • Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes, Christoph Scherrer

   Pages 1-14

3. Can Germany Learn from the USA?

   • Christoph Scherrer

   Pages 15-31

4. After the Miracle

   • Stefan Beck

   Pages 33-67

5. The Dynamics of Industrial Restructuring

   • Frank Klobes

   Pages 69-92

6. The German Way

   • Michael Fichter

   Pages 93-110

7. Disentangling Deutschland AG

   • Christian Kellermann

   Pages 111-132

8. Transforming the Welfare State

   • Kai Mosebach

   Pages 133-155

9. Erosion of the Tax Basis

   • Kai Mosebach

   Pages 157-177

10. European Integration

    • Gülay Çağlar

    Pages 179-200

11. Explaining the Dynamics of Red-Green Economic Reforms

    • Stefan Beck, Christoph Scherrer

    Pages 201-223

12. Conclusion

    • Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes, Christoph Scherrer

    Pages 225-235

13. Back Matter

    Pages 237-243

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society, and state (Streeck, 1999; Simonis, 1998). Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating force of the German Model after WWII was based on the adoption and transformation of corporatist political structures from National Socialist Germany. Liberal capitalism was (re)introduced under political competition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who eventually found common ground in the politically mediated compromise between capital and labor: “This compromise was negotiated and institutionalized at a time when the communist wing of the workers movement and the authoritarian voices of German capital – for various reasons – were excluded from political participation” (Streeck, 1999, p. 15; translation: SB). The partnership between firms and unions manifested itself in manifold institutional structures. Apart from the social partners’ autonomy in matters of wage policy, worker codetermination at plant level and in operations is regarded as one of the special achievements of the German Model and has contributed substantially to social peace. The political coordination forms of concerted action, round tables, as well as modernization and crisis cartels gave birth to a highly complex political decision-making structure which, based on a federalist setup, has rightly been called “negotiation state” (Esser, 1998, p. 123). Second, the material foundation of this “Social Democratic class compromise” (Buci-Glucksmann & Therborn, 1981) consisted in the Federal Republic’s – in the words of Göste Esping-Andersen – “conservative-liberal” form of welfare state.

• Institution
• Nation
• change
• globalization
• institutional
• integration
• parapluprod
• policy
• state
• welfare

• University of Kassel, Germany

  Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes, Christoph Scherrer

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