Politics and Social Partnership: Flexible Network Governance

This paper reassesses the relationship between social partnership and the broader Irish policy process. What has developed may be conceptualised as "flexible network governance". While pay regulation may be less strongly institutionalised than in other countries with national-level pay dea...

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Published in:The Economic and social review 2006-01, Vol.37 (3), p.343-374
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