Noël Vergunst

The institutional dynamics of consensus and conflict

Consensus democracy, corporatism and socio-economic policy-making and performance in twenty developed democracies (1965-1998)

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Produktbeschreibung

This study analyses the relations between different types of institutional arrangements and their impact on socio-economic policy-making and performance. Consensus based versus conflict based institutional arrangements are contrasted. Institutional arrangements of consensus versus majoritarian democracy are used in the case of political decision-making. Institutional arrangements of corporatism compared to pluralism are used in the case of policy concertation among organised interests. Do these consensual institutions make a difference? The comparative analysis of this study shows that the impact of institutions on performance varies cross-nationally and across time. The case analysis shows that the role of actors is important, but also variable across the cases. There is not found a one-way relationship between institutions and performance. Instead of institutions, it appeared that contextual variables largely shape macro-level performance. National configurations of institutions and actors contribute to socio-economic performance but appear amendable if and when performance is low.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: LAP Lambert Academic Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm x 150mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9783838353999
• ISBN-10: 3838353994
• Artikelnr.: 29752637

Autorenporträt

Noël P. Vergunst, PhD: studied Political Science at Radboud University Nijmegen en received his PhD from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, is currently consultant in higer education at IOWO Nijmegen