Recent work in comparative political economy has stressed that coordination of firm-specific investments is a necessary condition for the development of solidaristic policies promoting social welfare (Martin & Thelen 2007). In the absence of ‘macrocorporatism' firms will be unable to maintain...

Conventional thinking about the 1938 Basic Agreement at Saltsjöbaden between organized labor and capital in Sweden holds that it was one of the consequences of a shift in the balance of power between workers and employers to the latter's disadvantage. But detailed archival evidence and analysis...