Stefan Beck

Surviving Globalization?: Perspectives for the German Economic Model Stefan Beck 2005 edition

Marc Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index. Table of Contents: Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1. Introduction / Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes, Christoph Scherrer -- Chapter 2. Can Germany Learn from the USA?: Some Theoretical Observations / Christoph Scherrer -- Chapter 3. After the Miracle: The Exhaustion of the German Model? / Stefan Beck -- Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Industrial Restructuring / Frank Klobes -- Chapter 5. The German Way: Still Treading the Path of Institutionalized Labor Relations? / Michael Fichter -- Chapter 6. Disentangling Deutschland AG / Christian Kellermann -- Chapter 7. Transforming the Welfare State / Kai Mosebach -- Continuity and Change in Social Policy since 1998 -- Chapter 8. Erosion of the Tax Basis: Fiscal Policy and International Tax Competition / Kai Mosebach -- Chapter 9. European Integration: Consequences for the German Model / Gulay caglar -- Chapter 10. Explaining the Dynamics of Red-Green Economic Reforms / Stefan Beck, Christoph Scherrer -- Chapter 11. Conclusion / Stefan Beck, Frank Klobes, Christoph Scherrer -- Subject Index. Publisher Marketing: society, and state (Streeck, 1999; Simonis, 1998). Interspersed between these most commonly named elements are the following: First, the high political integrating force of the German Model after WWII was based on the adoption and transformation of corporatist political structures from National Socialist Germany. Liberal capitalism was (re)introduced under political competition between Christian Democrats and Social Democrats, who eventually found common ground in the politically mediated compromise between capital and labor: This compromise was negotiated and institutionalized at a time when the communist wing of the workers movement and the authoritarian voices of German capital for various reasons were excluded from political participation (Streeck, 1999, p. 15; translation: SB). The partnership between firms and unions manifested itself in manifold institutional structures. Apart from the social partners autonomy in matters of wage policy, worker codetermination at plant level and in operations is regarded as one of the special achievements of the German Model and has contributed substantially to social peace. The political coordination forms of concerted action, round tables, as well as modernization and crisis cartels gave birth to a highly complex political decision-making structure which, based on a federalist setup, has rightly been called negotiation state (Esser, 1998, p. 123). Second, the material foundation of this Social Democratic class compromise (Buci-Glucksmann & Therborn, 1981) consisted in the Federal Republic s in the words of Goste Esping-Andersen conservative-liberal form of welfare state."

Contributor Bio:  Beck, Stefan Medienkunstler. Lebt und arbeitet in Frankfurt am Main. Beschaftigt sich vorwiegend mit Netzkunst und Netzkultur, sowie partizipativen Praktiken. Mehr unter http: //www.stefanbeck.de