This article examines changes in socio-economic regulation and the role of the
state in the Netherlands, Spain, the UK, Sweden and Germany, against the
background of the theoretical debate on transition from Fordist to post-Fordist
growth strategies. The first focus is on reforms in the labour market and the
welfare state, and their effect on the political and social processes through
which wage norms are generalized in a national economy. The second is on the
changing role of the state as an institutional form. The article starts from
some basic assumptions of the regulation approach and delineates the status of
the concepts of wage relation and wage determination, on the one hand, and the
state, on the other. It then considers the debate over modifications to these
concepts in the transition from Fordist to post-Fordist growth strategies,
drawing on the trajectories of the five countries.
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