European social policy : Corporatism, employment and restructuring

本研究旨在了解欧洲社会对话的现状，并在宏观层面上分析其功能。社会对话涉及欧洲政治组织与资本和劳工协会代表的合作，在欧洲社会层面和劳动力市场监管的发展中发挥了关键作用。在其推出后的大约七年内，它被纳入了欧洲社会政策制定的立法进程。然而，发展一个成熟的“欧洲社团主义”的“谈判治理”体系，（Hollingworth & Boyer，1997年），据说受到内源性和外源性因素的阻碍：利益中介和超国家“国家”的制度结构薄弱，一些国家集中工资谈判的崩溃，凯恩斯主义宏观经济管理的作用减弱，市场的依赖程度增加。为了定位和评估欧洲社会对话的发挥状态，本研究后退一步，试图将其置于六个国家的国家社团主义的角色变化，并将其与之进行比较。它的功能可能有点短的“准”或“半”社团主义，但它是在不断形成的过程中，其参与民主的作用和工资协调在中观层次可能是未来的研究特别感兴趣。本研究的结果在一份总结报告中介绍，并分析了其在微观层面的功能。

This research is aimed at understanding the current situation of the European social dialogue and at providing an analysis of its functions at macro-level. The social dialogue, which involved the cooperation of the European political organization and the representatives of capital and labor associations, was given a pivotal role in the development of the social dimension and labor market regulation in Europe. Within a period of around seven years after its launch, it was integrated into the legislative processes of the European social policy formation. Nevertheless, the development of a full-fledged ‘Euro-corporatist' system of ‘governance by negotiation (Hollingworth & Boyer, 1997)', is said to have been hampered by both endogenous and exogenous factors : the weak institutional structure of interest intermediation and the supranational ‘state', the breakdown of centralized wage bargaining in some countries, a diminishing role of Keynesian macro-economic management and an increasing recourse to the market. In order to locate and evaluate the state of play of the European social dialogue, this research takes a step back in an attempt to place it within and compare it with the changing role of national corporatism in six countries. It is discussed that its functions may be a little short of ‘quasi' or ‘demi' corporatism, but that it is in the continuous process of formation and its participative democratic role and wage coordination at meso-level may be of particular interest for future research. The results of this research are presented in a summary report together with an analysis of its functions at micro-level.