 Orchestrators of coordination: Towards a new role of the state in coordinated capitalism?Marius R Busemeyer, Martin B Carstensen and Patrick Emmenegger European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2022, vol. 28, issue 2, 231-250 Abstract: Liberalization poses significant challenges for the continued provision of collective goods within coordinated market economies (CME). Extant scholarship suggests two dominant sets of responses. Either CMEs continue to rely on employer coordination, but only for a privileged core, leading to dualization. Or, in cases where the state enjoys high capacity, the state instead compensates for liberalization but ends up crowding out employer coordination. In both cases, the result is decreasing employer coordination. We argue that in CMEs, the state may also play the role of “orchestrator†by supporting the revitalization of employer coordination. It does so through the deployment of ideational and institutional resources that mobilize employers’ associations on a voluntary basis. Applying our framework to a core area of coordinated capitalism, vocational education and training, we show that in both Germany and Switzerland, this indirect and soft form of state intervention was instrumental for turning around their crisis-stricken vocational training systems. Keywords: vocational education and training; corporatism; state; Germany; Switzerland; collective skills (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:eurjou:v:28:y:2022:i:2:p:231-250 DOI: 10.1177/09596801211062556 Access Statistics for this article More articles in European Journal of Industrial Relations |
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