Other types of VoC and criticisms - How useful is the VoC - UNFINISHED

Question 1

who made the MME category ?

Answer 1

Molina and Rhodes

Question 2

What are the characteristics of MMEs?

Answer 2

• The state plays a central role in facilitating coordination and compensating for the lack of autonomous self organisation of business and labour
• labour and business traditionally used their access to state resources to maintain their position in the political economy
• Overall the state is a key actor in industrial relations and economic activity

Question 3

some would like to argue that a MME falls into what category?

Answer 3

• they would argue that it constitutes a variation of a CME
• social partners and organisational frameworks are similar
• both elements of liberal and coordinated

Question 4

describe the MME link to government, like a safety net.

Answer 4

• MMES end up creating strong clientelistic links or mutually supportive relations between political parites and their flanking organisations, including trade unions

Question 5

while LMES mean adaptation through markets (crisis response)

CMEs mean adaptation through consensus and coordination

what do MMES do in crisis?

Answer 5

• political pressures from the lobbies to the state to pick up the bill

Question 6

what can you argue puts the mme distinction into doubt though?

Answer 6

• before, after and during crisis*
• State is almost universally weakened
• EU pushes for liberation and indirectly for privatisation
• Global competition
• EU enlargement has rendered the EU a mini globalisation force
• EURO and single market very open to external shocks
• most MMEs are in big crisis and under IMF-EU plans for further liberalisation

Question 7

for Volkeritsian and Kornelakis 2011 and Kornelakis 2014?

Answer 7

• the liberalisation of industrial relations has not led to new complementarities but just weakening of the MME type