Iversen, Torben and Soskice, David (2015) Politics for markets. Journal of European Social Policy, 25 (1). pp. 76-93. ISSN 0958-9287
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We argue that the welfare state operates very differently in the advanced sectors of modern economies and in the low-skill sectors. Governments are concerned to promote the advanced sectors of their economies in which they have comparative advantage. This is a valence issue not a partisan one. Where companies and employees in advanced sectors co-invest heavily in company-specific skills, then governments will be concerned to maintain insurance infrastructures to underwrite these investments. Hence, in advanced sectors, we see politics for markets in maintaining insurance-based welfare states. In low-skill sectors, redistribution and active labour market policies are partisan issues for legislatures, so here our analysis is in line with Politics against Markets. Effective welfare state policies depend on political coalitions in which the low-skilled are represented. We suggest that those coalitions may be less available just as low-skilled workers are increasingly excluded from post-Fordist collective bargaining coverage.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://esp.sagepub.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2015 The Authors |
| Divisions: | Government |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology J Political Science > JA Political science (General) J Political Science > JF Political institutions (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2015 17:34 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:58 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/64431 |
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