Θέματα Εργασιών και Βιβλιογραφία για το Μάθημα Οικονομικά και Κοινωνικά
Συστήματα της Ευρώπης
Απαραίτητες πηγές για όλα τα θέματα:
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Hall, Peter A. and David Soskice, “Introduction”, in P. Hall and D. Soskice,
eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), Σελίδες
1-68.
Bob Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thacher, “Introduction: Beyond
Varieties of Capitalism” in Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher,
eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: 2007), pp. 3-28.
Peter Hall, “The Evolution of Varieties of Capitalism in Europe”, in Bob
Hancké, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher, eds., Beyond Varieties of
Capitalism (Oxford: 2007), pp. 39-85.
Streeck, Wolfgang, and Kathleen Thelen, “Introduction: Institutional Change
in Advanced Political Economies,” in Streeck and Thelen, eds., Beyond
Continuity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 1-39.
Gregory Jackson and Richard Deeg, “From comparing capitalisms to the
politics of institutional change,” Review of International Political Economy,
vol. 15, no. 4 (2008), 680-709
1. Απειλείται το κράτος πρόνοιας των ευρωπαϊκών χωρών από την οικονομική
παγκοσμιοποίηση;
Ενδεικτική βιβλιογραφία
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Estevez-Abe, Margarita, et al., “Social Protection and the Formation of Skills,”
in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001), pp. 145-183.
Bernhard Ebbinghaus and Anke Hassel, “Striking Deals: Concertation in the
Reform of Continental European Welfare States,” Journal of European Public
Policy 7:1, 2000.
Pepper D. Culpepper, “Puzzling, Powering, and ‘Pacting’: The Informational
Logic of Negotiated Reforms,” Journal of European Public Policy, 9:5, October
2002, pp. 774-790.
Christopher Anderson and Jonas Pontusson, “Workers, worries and welfare
states: Social Protection and job insecurity in 15 OECD countries,” European
Journal of Political Research 46 (2007): 211-235.
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Giuliano Bonoli, “Time Matters: Post-industrialization, New Social Risks, and
Welfare State Adaptation in Advanced Industrial Democracies,” Comparative
Political Studies 40 (May 2007): 495-520.
Jacob Hacker, Policy Drift: The Hidden Politics of US Welfare State
Retrenchment,” in Wolfgang Streeck and Kathleen Thelen, eds., Beyond
Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies (New York:
Oxford University Press, 2005): 40-82.
Paul Pierson, “Coping with Permanent Austerity: Welfare State Restructuring
in Affluent Democracies,” in Paul Pierson, ed., The New Politics of the Welfare
State (Oxford University Press, 2001): 410-456.
Sven Steinmo. 2002. “Globalization and Taxation: Challenges to the Swedish
Welfare State.” Comparative Political Studies 35:7 (September): 839-62.
Michael Baggesen Klitgaard. 2007. “Why Are They Doing It? Social Democracy
and Market Oriented Welfare State Reforms.” West European Politics 30:1
(January): 172-94.
Duane Swank. 2001. “Political Institutions and Welfare State Restructuring:
The Impact of Institutions on Social Policy Change in Developed
Democracies.” In The New Politics of the Welfare State. Paul Pierson, ed. New
York: Oxford University Press.
Julia Lynch and Mikko Myrskylä. 2010. “Always the Third Rail? Pension
Income and Policy Preferences in European Democracies.” Comparative
Political Studies 42:8 (August): 1068-97.
Marco Simoni. 2013. “The Left and Organized Labor in Low-Inflation Times.”
World Politics 65:2 (April): 314-349.
Recommended: Lyle A. Scruggs and James P. Allan. 2008. “Social Stratification
and Welfare Regimes for the Twenty-first Century: Revisiting The Three
Worlds of Welfare Capitalism.” World Politics 60:4 (July): 642-64.
Torben Iversen and John D. Stephens. 2008. “Partisan Politics, the Welfare
State, and Three Worlds of Human Capital Formation.” Comparative Political
Studies 41:4/5 (April/May): 600-37.
Korpi, Walter. 2003. “New Politics and Class Politics in the Context of
Austerity and Globalization: Welfare State Regress in 18 Countries, 1975–95.”
The American Political Science Review 97(3, August): 425–46.
Philipp Genschel, “Globalization and the welfare state: a retrospective”,
Journal of European Public Policy, Vol. 11, Iss. 4, 2004
2. Ποιό είναι το μέλλον του συνδικαλισμού σε μια παγκοσμιοποιημένη οικονομία;
Ενδεικτική βιβλιογραφία
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Michael Wallerstein and Bruce Western, “Unions in Decline? What Has
Changed and Why,” Annual Review of Political Science, vol. 3 (2000), 355-377
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James Piazza, “Globalizing Quiescence: Globalization, Union Density and
Strikes in 15 Industrialized Countries,” Economic and Industrial Democracy,
vol. 26, no. 2 (2005), 289-314
Bernd Brandi and Franz Traxler, “Labour Conflicts: A Cross-National Analysis
of Economic and Institutional Determinants, 1971-2002,” European
Sociological Review, vol. 26, no. 5 (2010), 519-540
Cheol-Sung Lee, “International migration, deindustrialization and union
decline in 16 affluent OECD countries, 1962-1997,” Social Forces, vol. 84, no.1
(2005), 71-88
Brady, David, “Institutional, Economic, or Solidaristic? Assessing Explanations
for Unionization Across Affluent Democracies,” Work and Occupations, vol.
34, no. 1 (2007), 67-101
Dumont, Michael, et al., “Does Internationalization Affect Union Bargaining
Power? An Empirical Study for Five EU Countries,” Oxford Economic Papers,
vol. 58 (2006), 77-102.
Heyes, Jason, “Training, Social Dialogue and Collective Bargaining in Western
Europe,” Economic and Industrial Democracy, vol. 28, no. 2 (2007), 239-258.
Mosher, James, “US Wage Inequality, Technological Change, and the Decline
of Union Power,” Politics and Society, vol. 35, no. 2 (2007), 225-264.10
Mosley, Layna, “Racing to the Bottom or Climbing to the Top? Economic
Globalization and Collective Labour Rights,” Comparative Political Studies,
vol. 40, no. 8 (2007), 923-948.
Rhodes, M., “The Political Economy of Social Pacts: ‘Competitive
Corporatism’ and European Welfare Reform”, in P. Pierson (ed.), The New
Politics of the Welfare State (New York, Oxford University Press, 2001).
Scruggs, Lyle and Peter Lange, “Where Have all the Members Gone?
Globalization, Institutions and Union Density,” Journal of Politics, vol. 64, no.
1 (2002), 126-153.
Thelen, Kathleen, “Varieties of Labour Politics in the Developed
Democracies,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford:
Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 71-103.
Colin Crouch, “The Snakes and Ladders of 21st Century Unionism,” Oxford
Review of Economic Policy 16:1, Spring 2000, pp. 70-83.
3. Αγορές εργασίας: Σύγκλιση προς την απορρύθμιση;
Ενδεικτική βιβλιογραφία
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Baccaro, Lucio and Diego Rei, “Institutional Determinants of Unemployment
in OECD Countries: Does the Deregulation View Hold Water?” International
Organization, vol. 61, Summer (2007), 527-69.
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Bradley, David and John Stephens, “Employment Performance in OECD
Countries: A Test of Neoliberal and Institutionalist hypotheses,” Comparative
Political Studies, vol. 40, no. 12 (2007), 1486-1510.
Estevez-Abe, Margarita, et al., “Social Protection and the Formation of Skills,”
in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2001), pp. 145-183.
Edlund, Jonas, and Anne Grönlund, “Protection of Mutual Interests?
Employment Protection and Skill Formation in Different Labour Market
Regimes,” European Journal of Industrial Relations, vol. 14, no. 3, (2008), 245264.
Armingeon, Klaus, “Active labour market policy, international organizations
and domestic politics,” Journal of European Public Policy, vol. 14, no. 6
(2007), 905-932.
Rueda, David, “Social Democracy and Active Labour-Market Policies: Insiders,
Outsiders and the Politics of Employment Promotion,” British Journal of
Political Science, vol. 36 (2006), pp. 385-406.
Nick Parsons, 2012, “Social and Labour Market Policy: The (Re-) Emergence of
Competitive Tensions, in Jack Hayward and Rudiger Wurzel, eds., European
Disunion.
Anke Hassel, 2007, “What Does Business Want? Labour Market Reforms in
CMEs and its Problems”, in Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher,
eds., Beyond Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: 2007)), pp. 39-85.
David Soskice, “Wage Determination: The Changing Role of Institutions in
Advanced Industrialized Countries.” Oxford Review of Economic Policy 6:4,
pp. 36-61, 1990.
Desmond King and David Rueda, “Cheap Labor: The New Politics of “Bread
and Roses” in Industrial Democracies,” Perspectives on Politics (June 2008):
279-297.
Bruno Palier and Kathleen Thelen, “Institutionalizing Dualism:
Complementarities and Change in France and Germany,” Politics and Society
(March 2010): 119-148.
Kathleen Thelen and Christa Van Wijnbergen. 2003. “The Paradox of
Globalization: Labor Relations in Germany and Beyond.” Comparative
Political Studies 36:8 (October): 859-80.
Timo Fleckenstein. 2012. “The Politics of Labour Market Reforms and Social
Citizenship in Germany.” West European Politics 35:4 (July): 847-868.
4. Η πολιτική οικονομία της Γερμανίας: Πιέσεις, Προσαρμογή και Μελλοντικές
Προκλήσεις (1970-).
Ενδεικτική βιβλιογραφία
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Wolfgang Streeck, “German Capitalism: Does It Exist? Can It Survive?,” in
Colin Crouch and Wolfgang Streeck, eds., Political Economy of Modern
Capitalism, London: Sage, pp. 33-54, 1997.
Deeg, Richard, “Change from Within: German and Italian Finance in the
1990s,” in W. Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005), pp. 169-202.
Kinderman, Daniel, “Pressure from without, Subversion from within: The
Two-Pronged German Employer Offensive” Comparative European Politics,
vol. 3, no. 4 (2005), 432-463.
Sigrid Quack and Marie-Laure Djelic, “Adaptation, Recombination and
Reinforcement: The Story of Antitrust and Competition Law in Germany and
Europe”, in W. Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005), pp. 169-202.
Bruno Palier and Kathleen Thelen, “Institutionalizing Dualism:
Complementarities and Change in France and Germany,” Politics and Society
(March 2010): 119-148.
Kathleen Thelen and Christa Van Wijnbergen. 2003. “The Paradox of
Globalization: Labor Relations in Germany and Beyond.” Comparative
Political Studies 36:8 (October): 859-80.
Timo Fleckenstein. 2012. “The Politics of Labour Market Reforms and Social
Citizenship in Germany.” West European Politics 35:4 (July): 847-868.
Wood Steward, 2001, “Business, Government and Patterns of Labor Market
Policy in Britain and the Federal Republic of Germany, in P. Hall and D.
Soskice, eds., Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001),
pp. 247-274.
Trampusch Christine, 2007, “Institutional Resettlement: The case of Early
Retirement in Germany”, in W. Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond
Continuity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 203-228.
Goyer Michel, 2007, “Capital Mobility, Varieties of Institutional Investors and
the Transforming Stability of Corporate Governance in France and Germany”,
in Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher, eds., Beyond Varieties of
Capitalism (Oxford: 2007), pp. 195-219.
Silvia, Stephen and Wolfgang Schroeder, “Why are German Employers
Associations Declining? Arguments and Evidence,” Comparative Political
Studies, vol. 40, no. 12 (2007), 1433-1459.
5. Η πολιτική οικονομία της Γαλλίας: Πιέσεις, Προσαρμογή και Μελλοντικές
Προκλήσεις (1970-).
Ενδεικτική βιβλιογραφία
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Amable B. et al., “Changing French capitalism: political and systemic crises in
France”, Jornal of European Public Policy, 19 (8), (2012), pp. 1168-1187
Schmidt, V. A., “French capitalism transformed, yet still a third variety of
capitalism”, Economy and Society, 32 (4), (2003) , pp. 526-552.
Ben Clift, “The second time as farce? The EU takeover directive, the clash of
capitalisms and the hamstrung harmonization of European (and French)
corporate governance,” Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 47, no. 1
(2009), 55-79.
Carney, Richard, “Varieties of Capitalism in France: Interests, Institutions, and
Finance,” French Politics, vol. 4, no. 1 (2006), 1-30.
Hanché, Bob, “Revisiting the French Model,” in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds.,
Varieties of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 307-334.
Pepper, Culpepper, “Capitalism, Coordination, and Economic Change: the
French Political Economy since 1985, in Pepper Culpepper, Peter Hall, and
Bruno Palier, eds., Changing France: The Politics that Markets Make (Palgrave
Macmillan, 2008): 29-49.
Pepper, Culpepper, “Employers, Public Policy and the Politics of Decentralized
Cooperation in Germany and France”, in P. Hall and D. Soskice, eds., Varieties
of Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 275-306.
Bruno, Palier and Kathleen Thelen, “Institutionalizing Dualism:
Complementarities and Change in France and Germany,” Politics and Society
(March 2010): 119-148.
Goyer, Michel, 2007, “Capital Mobility, Varieties of Institutional Investors and
the Transforming Stability of Corporate Governance in France and Germany”,
in Bob Hancke, Martin Rhodes and Mark Thatcher, eds., Beyond Varieties of
Capitalism (Oxford: 2007), pp. 195-219.
Hancké, Bob, 2002: Large Firms and Institutional Change: Industrial Renewal
and Economic Restructuring in France. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Levy, Honah D., “Redeploying the State: Liberalization and Social Policy in
France”, in W. Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity (Oxford: Oxford
University Press, 2005), pp. 103 – 126.
Palier, Bruno, “Ambiguous Agreement, Cumulative Change: French Social
Policy in the 1990s”, in Streeck and K. Thelen, eds., Beyond Continuity
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005), pp. 127 – 144.
6. Μοντέλα καπιταλισμού και οικονομικές ανισότητες: Ποια η σχέση τους;
Ενδεικτική βιβλιογραφία
 Piketty Thomas (2014), Capital in the Twenty-First Century, Cambridge, MA:
Belknap Press.
 Iversen, Torben and David Soskice (2006), “Distribution and Redistribution:
The Shadow of the Nineteenth Century”, World Politics 61(3, July): 438–86.
 Scheve, Kenneth and David Stasavage (2009), “Institutions, Partisanship, and
Inequality in the Long Run”, World Politics
 Pontusson, Jonas and Lane Kenworthy (2005), “Rising Inequality and the
Politics of Redistribution in Affluent Countries”, Perspectives on Politics
 Lupu, Noam, and Jonas Pontusson (2011), “The Structure of Inequality and
the Politics of Redistribution.” The American Political Science Review, 105(2,
May): 316–37.
 Shayo, Moses (2009), “A Model of Social Identity with an Application to
Political Economy: Nation, Class and Redistribution, American Political Science
Review 103(2): 147-74.
 Korpi, Walter, and Joakim Palme (1998), “The Paradox of Redistribution and
Strategies of Equality: Welfare State Institutions, Inequality, and Poverty in
the Western Countries.” American Sociological Review 63 (October):661–87.
 Pontusson, Jonas (2005) Inequality and Prosperity: Social Europe Vs. Liberal
America, Ithaca: Cornell University Press
 Alberto Alesina, Edward L. Glaeser (2009), Η καταπολέμηση της φτώχειας
στις ΗΠΑ και την Ευρώπη: Δύο διαφορετικοί κόσμοι, Πόλις
 Swenson, Peter (2004), “Varieties of Capitalist Interests: Power, Institutions,
and the Regulatory Welfare State in the United States and Sweden.” Studies
in American Political Development 18 (Spring): 1-29.
 Sachweh, Patrick and Sigrun Olafsdottir (2010), “The Welfare State and
Equality? Stratification Realisties and Aspirations in Three Welfare Regimes,”
European Sociological Review 28,2: 149-68.
 Larsen, Christian Albrekt and Thomas Engel Dejgaard (2013), “The
Institutional Logic of Images of the Poor and Welfare Recipients: A
Comparative Study of British, Swedish and Danish Newspapers,” Journal of
European Social Policy 23, 3: 287 Jonas Pontusson and David Rueda (2000), “Wage Inequality and Varieties of
Capitalism,” World Politics 52:3, April 2000, pp. 350-383.
 David Bradley et al. (2003), “Distribution and Redistribution in Postindustrial
Democracies,” World Politics 55:2, January, pp. 193-228.