Zwischen 1972 und 2002 sind in der deutschen Sozialpolitik die Verflechtungen der Politiker mit dem Bereich der gesellschaftlichen Interessenträger zurückgegangen. Anhand einer Analyse der Karrieren der Mitglieder des Bundestagsausschusses für Arbeit und Sozialordnung zeigt das Papier, dass...

Against the background of the changing relationships between trade unions and political parties in Western Europe, this paper examines the nature and outcomes of unionparty alliances in East Central Europe. The paper advances two interrelated arguments. First, the nature of unionparty ties in...

Using representative individual-level data from the first round of the European Social Survey fielded in 2002/03, this paper provides an empirical analysis of unionization in 18 countries of the European Union. We show that union density varies considerably in Europe, ranging from 84 per cent in...

In recent years, parallel trends of organizational restructuring have become manifest among trade unions. Sharing similar experiences of stagnant membership and falling density rates, coupled with structural shifts in employment from industry to services and a growing pressure to attend to the...