The Evolution of Intermediary Institutions in Europe: From Corporatism to Governance

Poul F Kjaer · Eva Hartmann

Aug 2015 · Springer

About this ebook

This book investigates the consecutive shifts between three types of intermediary institutions in the European context: Corporatist, Neo-corporatist and Governance institutions. It does so by combining insights from European Political Economy; European Integration and governance studies; and, socio-legal studies in the European context.

About the author

Alfons Bora, Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University, Germany Hubert Buch-Hansen, Associate Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Alexander Ebner, Professor of Political Economy and Economic Sociology, Faculty of Social Sciences, Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Sabine Frerichs, Assistant Professor at the Faculty of Law and adjunct Professor in Sociology of Law, University of Helsinki, Finland Gorm Harste, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, Aarhus University, Denmark Eva Hartmann, Assistant Professor in Sociology and Political Economy, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School (CBS), Denmark Bob Jessop, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Lancaster University, UK Poul F. Kjaer, Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark Richard Münch, Professor Emeritus of Sociology, University of Bamberg, Germany Grahame F. Thompson, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy, Open University, UK Chris Thornhill, Professor of Law, University of Manchester, UK Gert Verschraegen, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Antwerp, Belgium Angela Wigger, Lecturer in Global Political Economy, Political Science Department, Radboud University, Netherlands