Otjes, Simon and Rasmussen, Anne (2017) No longer going steady, but playing the field: trade unions and the decline of social democracy. LSE European Politics and Policy (EUROPP) Blog (31 May 2017). Website.
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Parties on the centre-left often enjoy a special relationship with trade unions, but recent electoral losses for social democratic parties may limit the ability of unions to influence public policy. Simon Otjes and Anne Rasmussen examine how trade union-party relationships in the Netherlands might be affected by these developments. They argue that the losses suffered by the Social Democrats in the 2017 Dutch elections are unlikely to fundamentally weaken the role of Dutch trade unions in policy-making. Unions enjoy a direct connection to policy-making independent of government composition, and they hold ties to parties across the political spectrum due to the specific trade union traditions present in the country.
| Item Type: | Online resource (Website) |
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| Official URL: | http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2017 The Author(s) |
| Divisions: | LSE |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HB Economic Theory H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor J Political Science > JC Political theory J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2017 10:00 |
| Last Modified: | 15 Sep 2023 21:00 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/79686 |
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