From the manpower revolution to the activation paradigm. Explaining institutional continuity and change in an integrating Europe /

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This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe, while paying close attention to the OECD and the European Union as proliferators of new ideas. Three phases are identified: (a) a manpower revolution phase during the 1960s and 1970s, when most European government...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Weishaupt, J. Timo
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2010.
Colección:Changing welfare states.
Temas:
Manpower policy > Europe.
Emploi > Politique gouvernementale > Europe.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economics > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Reference.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Comparative Politics.
Manpower policy
Europe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Theoretical approach
  • pt. I. Origin and crisis of European labour market policy regimes
  • III. Origin of European labour market policy regimes and the manpower revolution
  • IV. Labour market policy regimes in crisis : divergence into three distinct clusters
  • pt. II. The emergence of the activation paradigm
  • V. The OECD's repeated reassessments and the EU as a proliferator of new ideas
  • VI. The emergence of the activation paradigm : analyzing institutional hybridisation
  • VII. Explaining transformative change in two crucial cases
  • VIII. Conclusion.
  • Machine generated contents note: I. Introduction
  • I.1. Research Questions
  • I.2. Competing Predictions about Labour Market Policy Regime Change: The Argument in Brief
  • I.3. Research Design, Case Selection, and the Evidence
  • I.4. Book Outline
  • II. Theoretical Approach
  • II.1. Introduction
  • II.2. Defining Institutions
  • II.3. Historical Institutionalism: Explaining Continuity
  • II.4. Historical Institutionalism: Beyond Continuity
  • II.5. Causal Mechanisms to Explain Institutional Transformations: Ideas and Agency
  • II.6. Three Institutional Trajectories
  • II.7. Analytical Grid: Four Dimensions of Labour Market Policy Regimes
  • pt. I ORIGIN AND CRISIS OF EUROPEAN LABOUR MARKET POLICY REGIMES
  • III. Origin of European Labour Market Policy Regimes and the Manpower Revolution
  • III.1. Locating the Origins of Unemployment and Labour Market Policy
  • III.2. Locating the Origin of Active Manpower Policy
  • III.3. OECD and the Diffusion of Active Manpower Policy
  • III.4. Five Country Cases: Austria, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, and the UK
  • III.5. Conclusions
  • IV. Labour Market Policy Regimes in Crisis: Divergence into Three Distinct Clusters
  • IV.1. Labour Market Policy Regimes Under Stress: 1973-1979
  • IV.2. National Policies after the First Oil Crisis: Moderate Optimism and the Expansion of Active Manpower Policies
  • IV.3. Conclusions
  • IV.4. After the Second Oil Crisis: Shattered Illusions and Diverging Pathways
  • IV.5. National Policy Responses: Social-Investment, Labour-Shedding, and Marketisation Strategies
  • IV.6. Conclusions
  • pt. II EMERGENCE OF THE ACTIVATION PARADIGM
  • V. OECD's Repeated Reassessments and the EU as a Proliferator of New Ideas
  • V.1. New Aspiration for an "Active Society" and the Road to the 1994 OECD Jobs Study

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