We are pleased to highlight two recent publications co-authored by Professor Anil Duman, both offering timely and insightful analyses of how European and semi-peripheral countries responded to worker vulnerability during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The first article, “Can Crisis Corporatism Protect Vulnerable Workers? Conceptual Insights from a European Perspective,” co-authored with Chaitawat Boonjubun and Marta Kahancová, explores how European countries mobilized corporatist mechanisms to safeguard workers during the crisis. The study provides valuable conceptual insights into how social dialogue and institutional cooperation influenced policy outcomes across Europe.
The second publication, “Crisis Corporatism under Strain: Institutional Power and the Protection of Vulnerable Groups in Türkiye and Serbia” (SAGE Publications, 2025), examines pandemic-era responses in Türkiye and Serbia—two semi-peripheral economies with weaker corporatist traditions. Professor Duman finds that Türkiye’s top-down crisis management deepened existing inequalities, while Serbia’s limited but more inclusive consultations enabled broader social protection through cash transfers and job subsidies.
Together, these studies underscore the crucial role of institutionalized social dialogue and collaborative policymaking in ensuring equitable crisis responses. They call for stronger engagement with social partners to better protect vulnerable groups in future systemic shocks.
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