Ireland: Two Trajectories of Institutionalization

O’Donnell, Rory; Adshead, Maura; Thomas, Damian

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“…Ireland, usually depicted as an LME, instead became famous for eight nation‐wide “social partnership programs” agreed between the government, unions, employers, farming bodies, and civil society organizations during 1987–2008 (see O'Donnell et al . ).…”

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“…Greece, where employer association members are obliged to participate in collective bargaining agreements, and Italy, whose centralization in bargaining peaked in the late 1990s, are still includable in a Southern model. Ireland, usually depicted as an LME, instead became famous for eight nation-wide "social partnership programs" agreed between the government, unions, employers, farming bodies, and civil society organizations during 1987-2008 (see O'Donnell et al 2011).…”

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Formal independence of regulatory agencies andVarieties ofCapitalism: A case of institutional complementarity?

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Guidi

2015

Regulation & Governance

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The Varieties of Capitalism literature posits that national economic institutions reflect the mode of coordination of a country's market actors. Despite the importance of this claim and a rich literature on the emergence of regulatory capitalism, few studies test such prediction for Independent Regulatory Agencies (IRAs). This article connects the two fields of research by analysing the impact of economic coordination on the formal independence of IRAs. The results show that, beyond issues of credible commitment and policy stability, the collective action capacity of market actors matters. In particular, regulators in Coordinated Market Economies enjoy less independence than in Liberal Market Economies, while intermediate regimes grant IRAs the least autonomy. The policy implications are nontrivial. Similar to other macroeconomic institutions, inappropriate combinations of economic coordination and IRA independence may engender Pareto-suboptimal regulatory solutions. In such cases, policymakers should reconsider the rules governing national regulators

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Formal independence of regulatory agencies andVarieties ofCapitalism: A case of institutional complementarity?

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Guidi

2015

Regulation & Governance

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“…At local level, the growing enthusiasm for partnership structures, which developed in parallel with national level Social Partnership led to the growth of a wide range of partnership structures. As a result it is possible to conceive of the institutionalizing of partnership approaches in Ireland (O’Donnell et al, 2011). Still, it has been noted that this institutionalization is a process whereby we are seeing a gradual convergence of various partnership approaches into one generalized model (Adshead and McInerney, 2008).…”

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EU cohesion policy and multi-level governance outcomes in Ireland: How sustainable is Europeanization?

Adshead

2013

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper presents a study of the Irish experience of EU cohesion policy, with a view to exploring what the Irish case can tell us about the conditionality of state’s adaptation to EU policy values and practice. Using Bache’s (2008) framework for the analysis of Europeanization, Multi-Level Governance and Cohesion policy, the paper finds that Europeanization has resulted in a reorientation of domestic policies, practices and preferences in the Irish case, but the consequence has been the creation of Multi-Level Governance Type II not I (Börzel and Risse, 2003). The governance changes that have occurred have been ad hoc and messy, and central government’s response to them has been short-termist and financially expedient. This raises concerns about the sustainability of knowledge transfer impacts from Irish Multi-Level Governance and partnership projects within the formal system of Irish government. More generally, it suggests that if the desired impacts of EU Cohesion policy are to be sustainable in the longer-term, more attention needs to be given to effectively measuring and explaining EU policy influence, so that we might begin to understand how it can be supported and sustained in a variety of state contexts.

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“…This included pressure from trade unions (particularly the Transport and General Workers’ Union) for stronger regulation of gangmasters. Equally, in Ireland, it was union upset over migrant worker exploitation at a time of the ‘Celtic Tiger’ and European Union enlargement which spurred the 2007 creation of the National Employment Rights Authority (NERA), forerunner to the Workplace Relations Commission (WRC), as part of the Towards 2016 Social Partnership Agreement (Government of Ireland, 2008; O’Donnell et al, 2011: 101). From a Jessopian ‘SRA’ perspective, these developments suggest a formative role for non-elite actors in the creation of labour inspection bodies in both countries, ostensibly geared to creating a buttress against migrant worker exploitation in particular.…”

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Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

Hastings

Herod

2023

Environ Plan A

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State labour inspection has been relatively underresearched in economic and labour geography, despite its prospective role in tackling worker exploitation as part of national state regulatory strategies. This paper seeks to address this gap by critically examining state labour inspection as a government function capable of upholding labour standards within and across economic space. A key contribution of the paper is to make stronger connections between workers’ spatial strategies and their ability to shape how labour inspection and standards enforcement is carried out. Focusing upon the UK and Ireland, we examine different ways in which some labour-friendly groups have sought to contest but also to support state labour inspection efforts with a view to protecting workers.

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Ireland: Two Trajectories of Institutionalization

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Formal independence of regulatory agencies andVarieties ofCapitalism: A case of institutional complementarity?

Formal independence of regulatory agencies andVarieties ofCapitalism: A case of institutional complementarity?

EU cohesion policy and multi-level governance outcomes in Ireland: How sustainable is Europeanization?

Labour geography and the state: Exploring labour's role in working against, with and through the state to improve labour standards

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