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ISBN 10: 0415299772

ISBN 13: 9780415299770

Author: Knut Roder

This highly topical study reflects on the current problems faced by social democratic parties in government when espousing policies of severe pragmatism and fiscal prudence, and provides an historical medium-term perspective to both parties’ substantial changes in labour market policies. There is now a good deal of interest in the Third Way and the Neue Mitte, and this book provides much needed empirical detail, and solid analysis of the substance of these ideas. It will be of great interest to students and researchers in comparative politics, social democracy and economic policy.

Social Democracy and Labour Market Policy Developments in Britain and Germany 1st Table of contents:

Part I: Changing Conditions for Policy Design

1. Challenges of Post-War Social Democracy

The Development of Western European Post-War Social Democracy

The 1970s and the Challenges to European Social Democracy

The Europeanization and Increasing Policy Convergence of Social Democratic Parties

‘Modernization’: The Response of Social Democracy

What’s the Difference? The ‘Third Way’ and ‘Neue Mitte’

2. Inside the Party: Changing Conditions and Strategies

Factors In Party Policy-Making

The Increasing Role of Marketing and the Media

Domestic Policy Systems As Conditioning Factors In Labour’s and the SPD’s Policy Formation Processes (The Westminster Model V. German Federalism)

The Labour Party and the SPD: Parties Acting Within the Constraints of Being In Opposition

Conclusions

3. Institutional Constraints On Party Behaviour: Keynesian V. Neo-Liberal Paradigms

A Theory of Party Paradigm Shifts and Policy Processes

Party Identities and Policy Space

A ‘New Institutionalist’ Approach

The Role of Ideas In the Policy Process

The Keynesian and Neo-Liberal Paradigms, Institutions and Impacts

Path Dependence and ‘Picking the Right Horse’

Labour’s and the SPD’s ‘Delayed’ Shift Towards Neo-Liberal Labour Market Policy Approaches

The Notion of Institutional History

Conclusions

Part II: The Development of Labour Market Policy

4. The Development of Labour Market Policy In Britain and Germany

The Development of Labour Market Policies In Germany and the UK During the 1970s, 1980s and 1990s

The Labour Party’s ‘Policy Review Process’ and Commission On Social Justice

The Report of the CSJ

The SPD and the ‘Basic Programme’ Review Process

The Significance of Looking to the Future and the Berlin Grundsatzprogramm

5. Trends In Policy Convergence: Findings from Party Documents

Party Programmes and Statements: Aims and Meaning

The SPD’s and the Labour Party’s Programme Development Structure

The Development of an Analytical Framework for a Cross-National Study

The Quantitative Analysis of Party Manifestos and Statements

European Community/Union LMP Initiatives: Positive

Full Employment and the Intention of Tackling Unemployment/High Employment

Pro-Economic State Planning and Nationalization

Pro-Labour Market Regulation

Pledges That Are Negative On Economic State Planning and Nationalization; Pro-Public–Private; Pro-Deregulative On Labour Market Measures

Positive Statements On (State Initiatives for the Provision of) Training and Education; Training Subsidies; And Youth Training

Technology, Industrial Policy and Competitiveness

Social Justice/Social Stability

Benefit Conditioning

The Role of Labour Market Agencies (Arbeitsamt, Jobcentre)

Public-Sector and Social Employment

Employment Taxes

Keynesian Demand Management

Economic Orthodoxy, Government Efficiency, Pro-Free Market Economy

Corporatism

Conclusions

6. Policy Reform and Policy Change: A Comparative Perspective

Organizational Change and Procedural Reforms

The Organizational Reform and Policy Transformation of the Labour Party

The Organizational and Policy Transformation of the SPD

Inner-Party Change: Different and Common Features Between Labour and the SPD

Actors’ Perceptions and Evaluation of Labour’s and the SPD’s Policy Development

Actors’ Evaluation of Major Influence Components on Party Policy Change

Changes In Actors’ Personal Beliefs and Their Explanations

Labour and SPD In Office: The Blair/Schröder ‘Third Way/Neue Mitte’ Paper

Conclusions from Actors’ Beliefs, Perceptions and Observations

Part III: Conclusions

7. Converging Social Democratic Strategy

Factors Predetermining Party Policy Approaches

Party Policy-Making and the Paradigmatic Component

Historical Institutionalism Applied

The Labour Party and the SPD: The Development of Party Change, Economic Policies and Party Values

The Parties’ Shift from a Keynesian Policy Approach to the Acceptance of a Neo-Liberal Policy Approach

The Emergence of European-Level Party strategies

Further Potential for Policy Convergence? The future Outlook

The Future of Social Democracy

Appendix I: The Content Analysis of Labour Market Policies In Party Documents

The Development of a Coding Frame

Requirements for Content Analysis

A Coding Frame for Labour Market Policies

Adding Qualitative Components to the Quantitative Approach of Statement Analysis

Appendix II: Interviewed Policy Actors from the Labour Party and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD)

Appendix III: Labour Market Policy Coding Scheme for Party Political Manifestos/Manifestos and ‘Major’ (Mid-Term) Statements: Full Standard Coding Frame (FCF)

Supply-Side Measures

Demand-Side Measures

Institutions

Appendix IV: Labour Market Policy Coding Scheme for Party Political Programmes/Manifestos and ‘Major’ (Mid-Term) Statements: Collapsed Coding Frame (CCF)

Supply-Side Measures

Demand-Side Measures

Institutions

Notes

Introduction: Social Democracy Under Pressure

1. Challenges of Post-War Social Democracy

2. Inside the Party: Changing Conditions and Strategies

3. Institutional Constraints on Party Behaviour: Keynesian V. Neo-Liberal Paradigms

4. The Development of Labour Market Policy In Britain and Germany

5. Policy Convergence: Findings from Party Documents

6. Policy Reform and Policy Change: A Comparative Perspective

7. Converging Social Democratic Strategy

Appendix I: The Content Analysis of Labour Market Policies In Party Documents

Appendix II: Interviewed Policy Actors from the Labour Party and the Sozialdemokratische Partei Deutschlands (SPD)

Bibliography

Party Manifestos and Mid-Term Statements Used for Analysis With the Labour Market Policy Coding Frame

Selected Bibliography

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