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Dedication

Contents

Preface

Contributors

1 Introduction: EMU and the European social model

1 Europe and the politics of monetary integration

2 The European social model and its national variants

3 Euros and Europeans

2 The EMU macroeconomic policy regime and the European social model

1 The EMU macroeconomic policy regime

2 Explaining unemployment

3 Conclusion

3 Shaping a polity in an economic and monetary union: the EU in comparative perspective

1 EMU: beyond monetary policy-making to economic policy coordination

Public finance

National politics and public finance

US experience

Comparison

2 Labor market reform

Labor market reform in the EU

The ECB and labor markets

The Commission and ECOFIN

Labor flexibility vs. the single market program

National choices and labor market flexibility

A pro-flexibility coalition

US labor regulation

3 Conclusion

4 Monetary integration and the French model

1 Monetary integration and the last gasp of French Keynesianism

Shifting economic and foreign policy: the “Europe option”

The French social model challenged: the EMS period

Monetary integration, employment relations, and the labor market

2 The 1990s: EMU shapes French domestic politics

From Mitterrand to Chirac

Gallic third ways and beyond

3 Conclusions

5 EMU and German welfare capitalism

1 Social capitalism in Germany

Beyond the “golden age”: slow growth and smooth consolidation, 1973–1989

2 From euphoria to problem overload: the double challenge, 1990–1998

Unification and EMU negotiations

Unification and its consequences: promises vs. reality

3 Between continuity and change: EMU and the red–green coalition, 1998–2002

4 Conclusion: new irony in German history?

6 Maastricht to modernization: EMU and the Italian social state

1 Creating the social state

The macroeconomic policy regime

The social model

2 From Maastricht to modernization

The macroeconomic policy regime

Employment relations: rediscovering concertation?

Restructuring the welfare state

3 Conclusion: EMU and political modernization

Appendix

7 Constraint or motor? Monetary integration and the construction of a social model in Spain

1 The Spanish social model ex ante

2 The puzzle of Spanish participation in EMU

3 Monetary union, welfare reform, and collective bargaining

4 Monetary union and social regulation in Spain: some concluding thoughts

8 The Netherlands: monetary integration and the Polder model

1 The Dutch labor regime from pacification to Poler model

2 Explaining the “velvet transformation”

3 Monetary integration in an old European state

4 Conclusions: transferring the Dutch case?

9 Belgium: monetary integration and precarious federalism

1 From postwar Social Pact to EMU

From the 1982 devaluation to the 1990 link to the D-mark

2 Entering EMU

3 The search for a new compromise

From productivity to competitiveness

Budget deficits and social security

Exerting influence at the European level

4 Conclusions

10 The political dynamics of external empowerment: the emergence of EMU and the challenge to the European social model

1 The conceptualization of the vincolo esterno

2 The use of EMU as a vincolo esterno: pre-Maastricht

3 The use of EMU as a vincolo esterno: post-Maastricht social models

Italy

Spain

Greece

Belgium

France

Germany

The Netherlands

Denmark

Sweden

Finland

4 Conclusions

11 Welfare reform in the shadow of EMU

1 Awelfare state world of path-dependent, but not predetermined, solutions

2 The fine structures of the European social model

3 Regime-specific problems and pressures

Reform agendas in EMU

4 The European social policy agenda

12 Industrial relations in EMU: are renationalization and Europeanization two sides of the same coin?

1 Implications of EMU for national industrial relations systems

General trends in Western Europe

Adjusting to EMU: cross-national distinctions and commonalities

2 From national to European concertation?

National flexibility and European coordination: an irresolvable contradiction?

Different pathways to the Europeanization of collective bargaining

A two-level model of soft European wage coordination in the making?

3 Conclusions

13 Conclusions

1 Responding to monetary integration

Timing

Common patterns?

2 EU social policy: promises and practices

3 Resilience, resistance, adaptation?

Enlargement?

Whither the European model of society?

References

Index of names

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