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State-labour relations in East Central Europe: explaining variations in union effectiveness
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posted on 2023-06-07, 20:32 authored by Sabina AvdagicThe article offers an explanation for variations in the effectiveness of trade unions to obtain legislative and policy concessions in peak-level tripartite negotiations in post-communist East Central Europe. It shows that standard interpretations for such variationsfocused on structural legacies, modes of transition, political cycles and institutional differencescannot account for the problem at hand. Instead, I argue that the sources of these variations are to be attributed to distinct paths of statelabour relations, which are the product of continuous strategic interactions that crucially depend on power dynamics between the main actors. To present a mechanism through which these paths evolve, the article sketches a model of governmentunion interactions that combines institutional and behavioural variables. I propose a set of hypotheses regarding the conditions that determine initial choice of strategies and factors that influence continuation or modification of these strategies later on. By analysing the cases of the Czech Republic, Hungary and Poland, the article further illustrates how these interactions shape tripartite institutions in such a way that they start reflecting accentuated power disparities between the contending actors, thereby limiting future choice sets for weaker actors.
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Socio-Economic ReviewISSN
1475-1461Publisher
Oxford University PressExternal DOI
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1Volume
3Page range
25-53Pages
29.0Department affiliated with
- Politics Publications
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2012-02-06Usage metrics
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