Institutionalizing Dualism: Complementarities and Change in France and Germany

By B. Palier, Kathleen Thelen. 2010

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The French and German political economies have been significantly reconfigured over the past two decades. Although the changes have often been more piecemeal than revolutionary, their cumulative effects are profound. The authors characterize the changes that have taken place as involving the institutionalization of new forms of dualism and argue that what gives contemporary developments a different character from the past is that dualism is now explicitly underwritten by state policy. They see this outcome as the culmination of a sequence of developments, beginning in the field of industrial relations, moving into labor market dynamics, and finally finding institutional expression in welfare state reforms. Contrary to theoretical accounts that suggest that institutional complementarities support stability and institutional reproduction, the authors argue that the linkages across these realms have helped to translate employer strategies that originated in the realm of industrial relations into a stable, new, and less egalitarian model with state support.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Political Science and International Relations, Public Administration

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Why don't governments need trade unions anymore? The death of social pacts in Ireland and Italy (2014, background): “…does undermine union legitimacy D ow nloaded from https://academ ic.oup.com /ser/article-abstract/12/4/723/1651093 by guest on 16 January 2020 over time (Palier and Thelen, 2010), and we suspect the narrowing of union membership across age cohorts is one root cause of this declining legitimacy.”
Who is in and who is out? A risk-based conceptualization of insiders and outsiders (2013, background): “This growing segmentation of the labour market in secure jobs and more ‘vulnerable’, unstable jobs is known as ‘dualization of the labour market’ (Palier and Thelen, 2010; Rueda, 2005, 2007; Saint-Paul, 2002).”
Labour Market Disadvantage, Political Orientations and Voting: How Adverse Labour Market Experiences Translate into Electoral Behaviour (2015, background): “Case studies corroborate that workers suffering labour market disadvantage are poorly represented in the political arena (Palier and Thelen, 2010; Davidsson and Emmenegger, 2012; Hassel, 2014).”
High-skilled outsiders? Labor market vulnerability, education and welfare state preferences (2015, background): “…for social policy has become a crucial area of research over the past years (Rueda, 2007; Rehm, 2009; Margalit, 2013), especially as labor market risks are increasingly unequally distributed between labor market insiders and outsiders (Rueda, 2007; Palier and Thelen, 2010; Emmenegger et al., 2012).”
A long goodbye to Bismarck? The politics of welfare reform in Continental Europe (2008, neutral): “euros for the low-paid ‘normal’ jobs (Palier and Thelen 2010).”
A Common Neoliberal Trajectory (2011, background): “As Palier and Thelen have noted, institutional complementarities cut both ways, so that change in one set of institutions can in turn lead to a broader transformation of the political economic model.(73) The main elements of postwar German industrial relations were sectoral wage bargaining and a dua”
Straight to the Core — Explaining Union Responses to the Casualization of Work: The IG Metall Campaign for Agency Workers (2015, background): “The case of IG Metall is critical because German unions, especially in export manufacturing sectors, are often argued to focus on their core constituencies (Hassel 2014; Palier and Thelen 2010).”
Challenges and Contradictions in the ‘Normalising’ of Precarious Work (2018, background): “Palier and Thelen (2010) offer a twist on this argument for France and Germany, by attributing dualisation to increasing weakness among unions who have retreated from their role in promoting solidarity.”