Dynamiken von Macht und Gegenmacht in der europäischen Lohnkoordinierung

This article seeks to explain the emergence of supranational wage coordination which follows a neoliberal market model. It discusses three institutional theories and addresses alternative models of wage policy coordination and their possible enforcement. The varieties of capitalism approach points to the institutional heterogeneity of national developments in north-western and south European countries that have led to supranational interventions. Sociological neo-institutionalism opens up a view on lacking preconditions of competitive isomorphism in the eurozone before the crisis and emphasises the role of state and supranational actors as well as professions. A Bourdieusian field-theoretical perspective focuses on distributional conflicts and power-relations as well as on potential counter forces against the hegemony of neoliberal logics of action.