The Changing Role of the State in Industrial Relations in Western Europe

Author(s):  
Colin Crouch
2008 ◽  
Vol 50 (5) ◽  
pp. 736-751 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Stuart ◽  
Miguel Martínez Lucio

The aim of this article is to examine the changing role of the state in a more market-driven system of industrial relations, specifically in terms of the new roles that are being developed with regard to mediation, advisory and arbitration services. It focuses empirically on the role played by the British Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service in facilitating the modernization of public sector employment relations. We show how the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service has played a `benchmarking' role that assists the development of more strategic forms of decision-making and cooperation in employment relations change, and identify the challenges of developing such an approach in the context of the shift towards a more decentralized and market-oriented system of public service delivery. In conclusion we assert that there is a new `advisory and benchmarking' state evolving based on a soft-market view of industrial relations, and that this mitigates (but is also in tension with) the harder market view within the state concerned with transforming the public sector.


2019 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 450-468
Author(s):  
Ngan Collins ◽  
Shuang Ren ◽  
Malcolm Warner

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 145-149
Author(s):  
Aurelia Teodora Drăghici

SummaryTheme conflicts of interest is one of the major reasons for concern local government, regional and central administrative and criminal legal implications aiming to uphold the integrity and decisions objectively. Also, most obviously, conflicts of interest occur at the national level where political stakes are usually highest, one of the determining factors of this segment being the changing role of the state itself, which creates opportunities for individual gain through its transformations.


2010 ◽  
pp. 25-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Achim Schmid ◽  
Mirella Cacace ◽  
Heinz Rothgang

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