Measuring solidarity: towards a survey question on fiscal solidarity in the European Union

The New Solidarity? Trade Union Coalition-Building in Five Countries

Excerpt] The purpose of this chapter is to present a framework for the analysis of union coalition-building and demonstrate its utility using comparative empirical material mainly from the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom though we also comment on union action in Italy and Spain. In what follows, we seek to define union-coalitions and specify their functions, identify a variety of...

Consensus Democracy and Interjurisdictional Fiscal Solidarity in Germany

The paper discusses recent developments of German fiscal federalism—especially the Länderfinanzausgleich, i.e. Germany’s unique system of horizontal equalization. A ruling by the Constitutional Court has cracked the status quo, and the parties involved (federation and states) have begun a process of bargaining on a new equalization system. This process is assessed against the background of rece...

Saltman on solidarity

Richard Saltman suggests that solidarity, a cherished notion at the heart of West European health care systems is being reconsidered in the light of today's austere economic conditions. Solidarity, he argues, has always been a flexible moral guideline, one that allows for policy responses, such as limitations on health benefits or increased out of pocket payments, that challenging fiscal condit...

Integration and Multiculturalism: Ways towards Social Solidarity

On solidarity values

In this note the concept of solidarity value in cooperative game theory is discussed. The value proposed by Nowak & Radzik is analyzed in terms of shifts of c-diagrams. The value is shown to be equal to the Shapley value for a shifted game. A general approach to a theory of solidarity is developed in terms of ”keep” and ”give” vectors.