Thomas Paster

Business-politics relations, social policy, industrial relations, taxation. Associate Professor in Business and Public Policy at Roskilde University, Denmark.

[Thomas Paster @thomas_paster]

Why do some trade unions support the EU’s Directive on Adequate Minimum Wages, while others oppose it? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov and I investigate this question in a new article in Economic and Industrial Democracy.

https://t.co/y7UiNPqZXY

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[Thomas Paster @thomas_paster]

Dutch and Danish employers' associations prefer the status quo in welfare state programs to radical reforms, argue Mikkel Mailand and Frank Tros in this paper: https://t.co/FQW9hWc8VC

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Hörtipp: Eine fundierte Analyse der politischen Entwicklungen in den USA unter Trump, mit Prof. Heinrich Heinisch:
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[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Capitalism and Democracy in the West

Peter A. Hall has a forthcoming book that traces changes in the relationship between capitalism and democracy in Europe and the US since 1945.

The core of the argument can be read in this article: https://t.co/xcyfBP6clT

[Sven Beckert @Sven_Beckert]

Thank you Jeremy Adelman for this thoughtful read of Capitalism: A Global History

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[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Mann’s Sources of Social Power

Is human history driven by economic, ideological, political or military power? This is the overarching question of this ambitious survey of history by sociologist Michael Mann.

I am rereading the work with a focus on Mann's ideas about the state.

[David Broder @broderly]

Looking forward to this by @emile_chabal

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[Tarbram @tropicalcamatte]

Great piece by Peter Osborne on Habermas and his biography by Müller-Doohm, from 2017. Very insightful on Habermas’s life, career and work, from someone very close to the heritage of Critical Theory.

https://t.co/GNIrunyu7x

[Michaela Wiegel @MichaelaWiegel]

Ses contemporains n‘étaient pas toujours tendre avec #Habermas. Voilà la l‘échange entre Raymond Aron et Karl Popper en 1970

[Thomas Paster @thomas_paster]

Für mich ein Klassiker: Der Essay "Die neue Unübersichtlichkeit" (1985), in dem Habermas drei Reaktionsmuster auf die Krise des Sozialstaats identifiziert: Legitimismus, Neokonservativismus, und Wachstumskritik.
https://t.co/XjzDuIEuBD

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

Capitalism, State, Democracy

This week my graduate seminar focuses on two macro-transformations, capitalist development and state formation, and their impact on the prospects of democracy. These works launched an approach to the study of democracy I call power structure theory.

[Thomas Paster @thomas_paster]

Why do unions in Denmark and Sweden—unlike many of their European counterparts—oppose EU involvement in wage-setting? Eriks Ozols, Stefan Ivanov Hristov, and I examine the roots of this opposition in our article in Economic and Industrial Democracy.
https://t.co/y7UiNPrxNw

[Gerardo L. Munck @GerardoMunck]

An Interview with Charles Tilly

Philosopher @dlittle30 conducted an interview with Tilly that covers many of his signature interests: state formation, historical sociology, big questions, causal mechanisms. A real treasure.

See the interview here: https://t.co/U4qdCWB4qv

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[Magnus Rasmussen @RasmussenMagnus]

Revisiting a modern classic by @thomas_paster: simple and elegant explanation of why employers become proactive in welfare policies. Simple asnwer; they face a radical opposition. Reformist movements are instead faced with containment strategies.