'A New Century of Corporatism?' Corporatism in Spain and Portugal

This article analyses the resurgence of national-level social bargaining in Portugal and Spain. It argues that this development was the result of the reorientation of the strategies of the social actors. In a new economic and political context, marked by a process of institutional learning and the i...

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Published in:West European politics 2002-07, Vol.25 (3), p.77-104
Main Author: Royo, S.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Bargaining
Collective bargaining
Corporatism
Economic Development
Economic policy
Employers
European Union
Government
institutional learning
Labor unions
Negotiation
Policy Making
Political economy
Political Parties
Political science
Portugal
social actors
Social and economic security
Social bargaining
Social cooperation
Social organization
Spain
Trade unions
tripartite macroeconomic bargaining
Unions
Wage negotiations
Wages
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Summary:This article analyses the resurgence of national-level social bargaining in Portugal and Spain. It argues that this development was the result of the reorientation of the strategies of the social actors. In a new economic and political context, marked by a process of institutional learning and the increasing autonomy by unions from political parties, trade unions have supported social bargaining as a defensive strategy to retake the initiative and influence policy outcomes. The incentives leading governments and employers to agree to new social pacts reflect their failure to control wages in a relatively fragmented and decentralised wage setting. Finally, co-operation among the social actors has been helped by the emergence of state institutions for tripartite macroeconomic and social bargaining.
ISSN:0140-2382
1743-9655
DOI:10.1080/713601615