integration of people into sustainable and quality employment. Over ten years later, and in the aftermath of one of the most trying periods in Europe’s recent economic history, this book provides a critical and timely reassessment.
The Political Economy of Policy Ideas contributes to the growing scholarly literature on ideational political economy and labour market regulation by providing a systematic analysis of the idea of active inclusion and its three core principles: activation, conditionality and personalization. The research breaks new ground by detailing how divergent interpretations of these principles, by relevant social actors in different contexts, have shaped their implementation. The book is of interest to scholars and students across comparative political economy, economic sociology, welfare and industrial relations studies.
Author(s): Gemma Scalise
Series: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2020
Language: English
Pages: 243
City: Cham
Acknowledgments
Funding Statement
Praise for The Political Economy of Policy Ideas
Contents
Abbreviations
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction: Ideas and Comparative Political Economy
1.1 Foreword
1.2 Ideas and Capitalism
1.3 Overview of This Book
1.4 From the Epicentre: Reflections in Times of Coronavirus
References
2 Convergence or Divergence? The Debate on Capitalist Societies
2.1 Structure and Agency: A Useful Analytical Framework
2.2 The Balance Between Growth and Inclusion: Six Ideal Types of Capitalism
2.3 Differentiated Pathways to Inclusive Growth
2.4 Actors and Their Different Strategies: State, Social Partners and Firms
2.4.1 The State
2.4.2 Organisation Representing Collective Labour and Business Interests
2.4.3 Firms
2.5 The Trajectories of Contemporary Capitalism
References
3 Active Inclusion: A New Policy Paradigm in the Wake of the 2008 Economic Crisis
3.1 Active Inclusion: Its Origin and Diffusion
3.2 Inclusive Labour Markets
3.3 Variety of Combinations of Employment Quantity and Quality
3.4 Social Partners and Inclusive Labour Markets
3.5 Industrial Relations, Public Policies and Employment Quality
References
4 Understanding Divergence: A Focus on National Regulation
4.1 A Closer Comparison: Three-Country Analysis
4.2 The Mediterranean Model: Spain
4.2.1 Irregular Social Dialogue
4.3 The Continental Model: France
4.3.1 Strong State, Weak Unions
4.4 The Nordic Model: Sweden
4.4.1 Resilient Cooperative Policy-Making
4.5 A Comparative Outlook
References
5 From Macro to Micro Evidence: Supranational Strategies, Local Interpretations
5.1 Active Labour Market Policies: Multiple Functions Behind Different Logics
5.2 Activation, Conditionality and Personalisation
5.3 The European Social Fund and the Relevance of Local Regulation
5.4 Governance by Indicators
5.5 From Ideas to Policy and Delivery: Research Design
5.5.1 The Case Studies
5.5.2 A Focus on the Foreign-Born Population
References
6 Local Pathways to Active Inclusion
6.1 A Common Policy Idea, Different Outcomes
6.2 The Restricted Active Inclusion of Barcelona
6.3 An Embedded Active Inclusion: The Lyon Case Study
6.4 Gothenburg: A Capacitating Active Inclusion
6.5 The Active Inclusion of Migrants
6.5.1 Barcelona
6.5.2 Lyon
6.5.3 Gothenburg
6.6 Policy Ideas and Local Interpretations: A Typology of Active Inclusion
References
7 The Political Economy of Policy Ideas: Concluding Remarks and Open Questions
7.1 Ideas, the EU and Knowledge Regimes
7.2 Ideas, Institutions and Actors
7.3 The Multi-Level Governance of Active Inclusion
7.4 What Ideas for the Post-COVID-19 World?
References
Index
