Essays about: "Gerrit Krause"

Found 1 essay containing the words Gerrit Krause.

1. 1. Shedding light on the European social dialogue’s “shadow of hierarchy” – a proposal for a model explaining the shadow of hierarchy’s influence on the content of Commission-initiated and Council-implemented collective agreements concluded by European social partners

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

   Author : Gerrit Krause; [2014]
   Keywords : shadow of hierarchy; shadow of the law; European social dialogue; veto games; consensus strategies; Law and Political Science;

   Abstract : In scholarly literature, it is widely acknowledged that ‘the shadow of hierarchy’, hence the threat of disadvantageous Community legislation, is an important con-cept in European social dialogue (ESD), where European social partners – that is organised labour and management – are given the chance to negotiate binding agreements on some aspects of European labour and social policy. While the shadow of hierarchy’s role for making social partners enter ESD (“negotiate or we legislate!”) is widely acknowledged, this paper aims at presenting a theoretical model that can explain the hitherto omitted question of how the shadow of hierar-chy influences ESD agreements’ content. READ MORE