11 Cooperation and Reform in Vocational Education and Training

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. Preface XII
4. 1 Introduction: Institutional Change in Neo-Corporatist Society 1
5. 2 Negotiation and the Micro-Foundations of Institutional Change 17
6. PART I: Working Life Institutionalization – Negotiating Large Scale Social Change
7. 3 Property Rights, Governance, and Power Balances 36
8. 4 Institutionalization and Dynamic Change of Institutions – the Basic Agreement and Tripartite Structures in Norway 56
9. 5 Participation and Co-Determination: Why Some Arrangements Fail and Others Prevail 77
10. 6 The Making of Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards in Norway 96
11. 7 Institutional Variation and Normative Theory: Lessons from a Local Equal Pay Controversy 118
12. PART II: Institutional Change in Work and Vocational Education
13. 8 Regulating the Temporary Layoff Institution – Coalitions and Drift 136
14. 9 Cooperation and Power in Labour Adjustment Choices: A Nordic Perspective 157
15. 10 Preventing Dualization the Hard Way – Regulating the Norwegian Labour Market 179
16. 11 Cooperation and Reform in Vocational Education and Training 201
17. PART III: Negotiations in Welfare State Institutions
18. 12 To Reform or Not to Reform? Explaining the Coexistence of Successful Pension Reform and Sick Pay Inertia in Norway 220
19. 13 Changing Welfare Institutions as Sites of Contestation 242
20. 14 Making, Unmaking and Remaking: The Evolution of Nordic Cash for Childcare Schemes 262
21. PART IV: Afterword
22. 15 Conflict, Compromise, Cooperation Concluding Reflections 282
23. About the Authors 293
24. List of Figures 294
25. List of Tables 295
26. Index 296