Τετάρτη 24 Μαρτίου 2010

Μελέτες: ‘Odysseus or Sisyphus’ Revisited: Failed Attempts to conclude Social-liberal Pacts in Greece

Μελέτες σε Διεθνή Βιβλία και Συλλογικές Εκδόσεις : 

‘Odysseus or Sisyphus’ Revisited: Failed Attempts to conclude Social-liberal Pacts in Greece, in Pochet Ph. Keune M. & Natali D. (eds) After the Euro and Enlargement: Social Pacts in the European Union, pp. 83-108, Observatoire Social Europeen & ETUI, Brussels, 2010.

Table of Contents
Introduction.....................................................................................................83


1. A decade of social pact efforts: from ‘stop-go’ to ‘intensive’ dialogue...........84

2. ‘Raining cats and dogs’: social dialogues, strikes and failed social pacts........88

3. Wage formation in the context of EMU: collective bargaining gradually
moves away from coordinated wage setting................................... .................98

Conclusion: an accumulation of Sisyphean outcomes and doubly uneven
institutionalisation .........................................................................................104

Introduction

This study critically reviews the series of (failed) attempts to set up social pacts in Greece. The focus is on the period 1994 to 2008, with particular reference to the phase between 2000 and 2004 (characterised by the PASOK socialist governments), and the phase between 2004 and  2008 with the New Democracy (right-of-centre) governments.

The peculiarities of the Greek experience, especially when compared with the other south European countries, represent the key focus of this chapter. Why has Greece experienced the failure of all attempts to set up social pacts (with the exception of the 1997 Pact of Confidence), while other countries (like Italy, Spain and Portugal) have seen the emergence and evolution of social pacts in the same period?
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