This book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It develops a new conceptual framework for understanding the...
moreThis book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It develops a new conceptual framework for understanding the function and position of intermediary institutions in society, as well as a vocabulary capable of explaining the causes and consequences of these shifts for politics, economy and society at large. The book is designed to fill a gap in three rather distinct, yet also overlapping bodies of literature: European Political Economy, European Integration and governance studies, and socio-legal studies in the European context.
Reviews:
- Anne Guisset: Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, 22, 3, 427-429, 2016.
- Ian Bruff, Capital & Class, 40, 3, 555 – 57, 2016.
List of Content:
INTRODUCTION
Poul F. Kjaer
PART I: The Big Picture: From Corporatism to Governance
Chapter 1
From Corporatism to Governance: Dimensions of A Theory of Intermediary Institutions
Poul F. Kjaer
Chapter 2
Corporatism and Beyond? On Governance and its Limits
Bob Jessop
CHAPTER 3
From Neo-corporatism to Neo-pluralism: The Liberal Drift of Multilevel Governance
Richard Münch
PART II: Intermediary Institutions in the Transformation of Economic Policy
Chapter 4
Collective Action and the Making of Economic Policy: Intellectual Lineages from the History of Political Economy
Alexander Ebner
Chapter 5
EU Competition Regulation: A Case of Authoritarian Neo-liberalism?
Angela Wigger & Hubert Buch-Hansen
PART III: Intermediary Institutions in the Re-configuration of Social Policy
Chapter 6
Fabricating Social Europe: From Neo-corporatism to Governance by Numbers
Gert Verschraegen
Chapter 7
European Social Policy: Social Cohesion through Competition?
Eva Hartmann
PART IV: Intermediary Institutions and the Law
Chapter 8
The Shadow of the Law: Intermediary Institutions and the Ruling Part of Governance
Alfons Bora
Chapter 9
Taking Governance to Court: Politics, Economics, and a New Legal Realism
Sabine Frerichs
Part V: Intermediary Institutions and Constitutional Transformations
Chapter 10
The Consitutionalisation of Everyday Life?
Grahame F. Thompson
Chapter 11
The Democratic Surplus that Constitutionalised the European Union: Establishing Democratic Governance through Intermediate Institutions
Gorm Harste
Chapter 12
The Crisis of Corporatism and the Rise of International Law
Chris Thornhill
