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When Solidarity Works

When Solidarity Works

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Series: Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences, Book 41

General Political ScienceGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1316626342
ISBN13: 9781316626344
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jul 25 2018
Pages: 438
Weight: 1.41
Height: 0.97 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Why do some labor movements successfully defend the welfare state even under the pressures of neo-liberal market reform? Why do some unions (and their allied parties and civic associations) succeed in building more universal and comprehensive social policy regimes, while others fail to do so? In this innovative work, Cheol-Sung Lee explores these conundrums through a comparative historical analysis of four countries: Argentina, Brazil, South Korea and Taiwan. He introduces the notion of 'embedded cohesiveness' in order to develop an explanatory model in which labor-civic solidarity and union-political party alliance jointly account for outcomes of welfare state retrenchment as well as welfare state expansion. Lee's exploration of the critical roles of civil society and social movement processes in shaping democratic governance and public policies make this ideal for academic researchers and graduate students in comparative politics, political sociology and network analysis.

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