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Parties, elections, and policy reforms in western Europe : voting for social pacts /

Hamann, Kerstin.

Parties, elections, and policy reforms in western Europe : voting for social pacts / Kerstin Hamann and John Kelly. - New York : Routledge, c2011. - xiii, 224 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Routledge research in comparative politics ; 36 .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The puzzle of social pacts -- The institutional political economy of social pacts : a critical appraisal -- The political logic of social pacts -- Governments, voters, and social pacts in Western Eeurope -- The divergent trajectories of social pacts in the LMEs : Ireland and the UK -- Social democracy between pacts and legislation in scandinavia : Sweden and Finland -- Cycles of social pacts in the Mediterranean economies : Spain and Italy -- Tripartism under duress in coordinated market economies : Germany and Austria -- The electoral politics of social pacts.

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Consensus (Social sciences)--Europe, Western.
Political parties--Europe, Western.
Elections--Europe, Western.

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