"This volume is one of the first books to consider the impact of tripartism across the developing world. It covers 8 case studies from Afrcia, Asia, Eastern Europe and Latin America, focusing on developments since the 1990s. These studies show that tripartism has the effect of reducing the...

Introduction : studying social concertation in Europe / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J. Timo Weishaupt -- Social concertation in Europe during the great recession : exploring when governments include social partners in crisis management / Benedikt Bender and Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- Back to the future...