Zum Einfluss des Parteienwettbewerbs auf politische Entscheidungen

Zohlnhöfer, Reimut

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-16600-7_2

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“…Apart from the sheer electoral and parliamentary strength of the party families that defend EPL, the risk of losing votes due to unpopular EPL reforms depends on whether the defenders of EPL politicize the reform (Armingeon and Giger 2008; Zohlnhöfer 2017). Other things being equal, Left—and to some extent Christian democratic—parties are likely to emphasize issues of social justice in their public statements and their election manifestos.…”

Section: Theory: Partisan Politics Voters and Issue Emphasismentioning

confidence: 99%

Quiet Politics of Employment Protection Legislation? Partisan Politics, Electoral Competition, and the Regulatory Welfare State

Voigt¹,

Zohlnhöfer²

2020

The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Scie

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Political parties and party competition have been important factors in the expansion and retrenchment of the fiscal welfare state, but researchers have argued that regulatory welfare is not part of political debate among parties. We explore this claim theoretically, and then empirically examine it in the case of employment protection legislation (EPL) in twenty-one established democracies since 1985. EPL is a mature and potentially salient instrument of the regulatory welfare state that has experienced substantial retrenchment. We test three prominent mechanisms of how electoral competition conditions partisan effects: the composition of Left parties’ electorates, the strength of pro-EPL parties, and the emphasis put on social justice by pro-EPL parties. We find that the partisan politics of EPL is conditioned by electoral competition under only very specific circumstances, namely when blame sharing becomes possible in coalitions between EPL supporters.

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Section: Theory: Partisan Politics Voters and Issue Emphasismentioning

confidence: 99%