A Policy of Consensus. The Austrian Experience.

Steindl, Josef

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Collection:: Josef Steindl Collection

Title:: A Policy of Consensus. The Austrian Experience.

Author:: Steindl, Josef

Scope:: Konvolut bestehend aus Typoskript, 4 Blätter mit handschriftlichen Anmerkungen und Anstreichungen sowie 2 Blätter mit handschriftlichen Notizen, insgesamt 6 Blätter geheftet

Year of publication:: ohne Datum

Language:: English

Description:: Einfluss der Sozialpartnerschaft auf die österreichische Wirtschaftspolitik, Löhne und Konjunkturentwicklung.

Subject:: Österreich Machtverteilung Sozialpartnerschaft Lohnentwicklung Konjunktur Wirtschaftspolitik Strukturwandel

Note:: Entstanden nach 1983. - Unveröffentlichtes Typoskript.

JEL Classification:: J58 [Labor-Management Relations, Trade Unions, and Collective Bargaining: Public Policy] O52 [Economywide Country Studies: Europe]

Shelfmark:: S/M.45.2

Access:: Free access

4 In addition two facts are relevant. Private capitalism in Austria has been much weakened by nationalisation; the strongest capitalist force are the foreign concerns. At the same time the trade unions in Austria are not split politically, so that some problems typically occurring for example in Great Britain, are absent. While the social partnership was very successful in short term economic policy the same can not be said with respect to long term policies. These "structural" problems have now acquired more and more a dominating character: Old industries are decaying and are kept in operation by large subsidies, while innovative new industries and firms are rare. A technology policy which would systematically encourage and plan innovative development, is absent, like any kind of long term indicative planning. In fact the features of the social partnership which guarantee its success in the solution of short run ("Konjunktur") problems prove a handicap for a structural policy. The centralised power of the interest bodies, with their discipline and coherence involves a petrification of economic structures which often extends also to the management. The tendency to conserve structures which is in any case inherited from Austrian history, has been powerfully reinforced by the system of social partnership.

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