Explaining failures and chances of Polish ' social pacts '
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Introduction Poland’s experience of social dialogue is mostly dismissed as pure failure and façade (Ost 2000; Avdagic 2005). Indeed, there is little evidence of those major, encompassing, comprehensive and institutionalised agreements that have been called ‘social pacts’ in western Europe. However, a deeper and more detailed exam of the interactions between the actors shows that there have been very serious attempts at social pacts, and there have been some unintended effects of those attempts, as well as some partial results. The issue, therefore, cannot be dismissed as ‘non existent’. In particular, in the early 2000s there has been an important ‘window of opportunity’ for a social pact. Rather than no need or interest for social dialogue, there are specific, complex and changing barriers to social pacts which need to be understood. And as such barriers are very volatile, they cannot be taken for granted for the future: actually, the new landscape emerging from the parliamentary elections of 2007 may give new meanings to social dialogue. The paper proceeds in a historical way and is based on in-depth direct observations. In particular, one of the authors has been an invited observer to the meetings of the plenum of the Tripartite Commission from the 2002, and therefore disposes of a unique degree of insider information. This information is put in the structural context of Polish social developments in order to suggest deeper explanations of the events. As today’s Poland is marked by the ‘transition’ from communism to capitalism, the discussion cannot start from later than 1989.
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تاریخ انتشار 2008