All rooms are equipped with an overhead projector
Rooms C, D, E, F, G and H (H only on Saturday): slide projector (framed slides, carrousel. There are extra carrousels available to set up your presentation in advance)
Rooms C, D, M, N, O, U and Committee Room 2: beamer to connect your laptop. You have to bring you own laptop. (If you want to use your Apple notebook, please contact us, as it may be incompatible.)
Rooms C, T and U: VCR
Programme
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From early modern Confederal Republics to 20th century liberal corporatism : Historical path and roots for consensual politics in the Netherlands and Switzerland compared
| By Peter Katzenstein, one of the leading scholars in the field of the political economy of the smaller European states, the Netherlands and Switzerland are considered to be the exemplary cases of the liberal variant of corporatism, marked by a relative weakness and division of the labour movement and a strong internationally orientated business community. Why did this variant of consensual politics develop in these two states? Points to be considered are the confederative republics (the Swiss Confederacy and the Seven Provinces of the Netherlands) which were the fore-runners of the modern national state in both countries, the impact of the French Revolution, the dominance of Liberalism after 1848 and its challenge by broad mass-movements (confessional-conservative forces as well as the socialist labour movement and its fore-runners) during the last decades of the “long 19 century”. The aim of the presentation is to describe how liberal corporatism was institutionalised on the base of those historical roots during the time of the two world wars and further developed after World War II.
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