Theoretical and Empirical Issues in the Comparative Measurement of Union Power and Corporatism

British Journal of Political Science

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 419-428

  Mitchell, Neil J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

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EID: 84992801648     PISSN: 00071234     EISSN: 14692112     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0007123400007523     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. David R. Cameron, ‘Social Democracy, Corporatism, Labour Quiescence and the Representation of Economic Interests in Advanced Capitalist Society’, in John Goldthorpe, ed., Order and Conflict in Contemporary Capitalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1984).
2. Miriam Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism and National Economic Performance’, American Political Science Review, 87 (1993), 439-54.
3. Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism’, p. 451.
4. See, for example, Michael Goldfield, The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987), and Mancur Olson Jr, The Rise and Decline of Nations (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1982).
5. John K. Galbraith, ‘Countervailing Power’, American Economic Review, No. 2,44 (1954), 1-6 at p. 1.
6. Under the ‘remiss’ procedure the Swedish government collects submissions from relevant interests prior to drafting legislation.
7. Cameron, ‘Social Democracy’, p. 164.
8. Cameron, ‘Social Democracy’, p. 170.
9. See, in particular, her discussion of ‘coordination problems’ (Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism’, p. 440).
10. Mancur Olson Jr, The Logic of Collective Action (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1971), p. 143; See also Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism’, p. 440.
11. Note that while Golden re-labels Cameron's index, Cameron refers to it as the ‘organizational unity of labour’, not ‘monopoly’ or ‘concentration’.
12. Cameron, ‘Social Democracy’, p. 165.
13. Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism’, p. 443.
14. Europa Year Book 1981, Vol. 1 (London: Europa Publications Ltd., 1981), p. 661.
15. See Philippe C. Schmitter, ‘Interest Intermediation and Regime Governability in Contemporary Western Europe and North America’, in Suzanne D. Berger, ed., Organizing Interests in Western Europe and North America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981); and Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism’.
16. See Golden, ‘The Dynamics of Trade Unionism’, p. 447, Table 2.
17. See Robert W. Jackman, ‘The Politics of Economic Growth in the Industrial Democracies, 1974-1980: Leftist Strength or North Sea Oil?’ Journal of Politics, 49 (1987), 242-56; Jackman, ‘The Politics of Economic Growth, Once Again’, Journal of Politics, 51(1989), 646-61; Peter Lange and Geoffrey Garrett, The Politics of Growth: Strategic Interaction and Economic Performance in the Advanced Industrial Democracies, 1974-1980’, Journal of Politics, 47 (1985), 792-827.
18. George S. Bain and Farouk Elsheikh, Union Growth and the Business Cycle (Oxford: Basil Blackwell,1976), p. 85.
19. Michael Goldfield, The Decline of Organized Labor in the United States (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 1987), p. 27.
20. Gosta Esping-Andersen, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism (Cambridge: Polity Press, 1990), p. 47.
21. Michael Lewis-Beck, Applied Regression (Newbury Park, Calif.: Sage, 1980).