Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact?

Milner, Susan

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“…Thus, where 'weak' civil society had failed, the 'strong' French state stepped in, both to regulate political finance and to provide state funding. This statist solution to societal problems is in keeping with deep-rooted norms of French political culture, prevalent, for example, in the field of industrial relations (Milner, 1998).…”

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Comparative Party Finance Reform

Clift

Fisher

2004

Party Politics

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In Britain, the Political Parties, Elections and Referendums Act has revolutionised the regulation of party finance after several half-hearted failures at attempted reform. InFrance, a series of high profile corruption scandals in the 1980s and 1990s provoked a bout of 'legislative incontinence' -resulting in over eight laws in seven years, which profoundly transformed the regime regulating party finance. The comparative analysis of reforms in each country presented here questions the utility of crude 'constitutional engineering' theories, and the notion of party system 'cartelisation' by major parties, neither of which offers a wholly convincing account of the paths of reform in Britain and France. It explores the use of new institutionalist theories as a comparative framework and concludes that these provide a cogent explanation for the alternative paths taken by each country with party finance regulation.

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Section: French Reformsmentioning

confidence: 66%

Comparative Party Finance Reform

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2004

Party Politics

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The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance

Clift

2023

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This book is about the politics of economic ideas, and the inevitable yet hidden politics of technocratic economic governance, explored through a focus on the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR)—the institution designed to oversee Britain’s fiscal policy. Drawing on an in-depth qualitative analysis of official documents and interviews with professional economists and technocrats, the book develops the politics of economic method lens to shed new light on the judgement and discretion inherent in interpreting economic ideas in practice. This analysis reveals the OBR’s remit of objective distance from the political fray to be grounded in a false premise. Despite appeals to independent and ‘scientific’ economic expertise, there is always a politics of economic policy, embodied in how technocratic governance institutions are created, and how they choose to examine and narrate the economy. Economic models and discourses are socially constructed, reproducing and reimagining knowledge about an economy’s trajectory, and how it should be studied and managed. The book interrogates the broader backdrop against which such deliberations take place, exploring the twenty-first-century evolution of macroeconomic orthodoxy and the British model of capitalism. It engages three ‘once in a century’ shocks, analysing British capitalism’s uncertain trajectory as policymakers navigated the aftermath of the Global Financial Crisis and the upheavals of Brexit and COVID. By delineating competing constructions of economic reason and showing how they underpin models of British capitalism, growth, and crisis response, the book provides an indispensable account of the politics of technocracy, and of Britain’s contemporary political economy.

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The Office for Budget Responsibility and the Politics of Technocratic Economic Governance

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Industrial Relations in France: Towards a New Social Pact?

Cited by 17 publications

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