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Article: Union participation in economic policy making in Scandinavia, 1970-1993.
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- West European Politics
- Article date:
- January 1, 1995
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Scandinavia is well known in the literature of modern political economy for the way in which trade unions are integrated into the processes of policy making and implementation, and Sweden and Norway in particular are often regarded as paradigm cases of corporatism. One important component of most conceptions of corporatism is the concept of trade union participation in economic policy making.(1) Despite this, the relevant literature contains hardly any systematic comparative historical studies of this phenomenon: although it is often touched upon by single-country studies, comparative studies tend either to consist of collections of single-country case studies,(2) or to use ...