About Philippe Marliere

Philippe Marliere is Professor of French and European Politics at University College, London. He was awarded a PhD in Social and Political Sciences from the European University Institute and was a Research Fellow at the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). His publications include Social Democratic Parties in the EU (with R. Ladrech, Macmillan, 1999) and La Social démocratie domestiquée. La voie blairiste (Editions Aden, 2008). He is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Le Monde and Le Monde Diplomatique.

Parti Socialiste: Squeezed Between Macron and Mélenchon

by Philippe Marliere on 14 December 2017

What would you say is the historic position of the Parti Socialiste in the French political system, and where does it stand after the recent presidential elections? Well, the Socialist Party in France has always been a very specific, atypical type or brand of social democracy. For a very long time, political scientists would even […]

The Parti Socialiste 2012 Primary – A Beauty Contest?

by Philippe Marliere on 22 March 2012

Professor Philippe Marliere of University College London (UCL) gives his inaugural lecture and analyses the Parti Socialiste Primary for the 2012 Presidential Election in France. This post is part of the ‘Basic Values Debate’ jointly organised by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung and Social Europe Journal. Read more on social democratic parties: ‘The Future of the SPD as a Catch-All Party’. The […]

Why French Workers Reject Sarkozy’s Pension Reform

by Philippe Marliere on 7 October 2010

The recent financial crisis has again demonstrated the inherent instability of capitalism. It could be argued that the current pensions reform concocted by the Fillon government is showing the inherent instability of Sarkozyism. On 7 September and again on 2 October, 3 million people took to the streets for the biggest one-day strike in years. […]

Social Europe Edition Book

Zygmunt Bauman was a towering intellectual who saw and analysed – right up to his death in early 2017 – the great socio-political changes, often convulsive, in modern western society long before his peers. Here we highlight his prescient insights into what he dubbed ‘liquid modernity’ with 24 chapters on topics ranging from online loneliness via precarity/poverty/inequality to migration, fear of the ‘Other’ and the decline of the nation state. Chronicle of Crisis, 2011-16, written by one of the great chroniclers of our times, will be read and re-read for decades and more to come.

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The Positive Economic Impact Of Germany's Statutory Minimum Wage

With the empirical analyses of the macroeconomic effects of the introduction of the statutory minimum wage in Germany, the IMK tries to determine the short-term and expected medium- to long-term growth, price and employment effects with the help of a macro-econometric model. As a result, economic growth tended to be stimulated by the introduction of the minimum wage. This was mainly due to the higher wages of the minimum wage beneficiaries and a spillover effect on adjoining wage groups. In particular, this benefited people whose low savings rate led to a particularly strong increase in real private consumption. The price increases triggered were negligible on a macroeconomic scale.

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New Social Europe Book

Is an unconditional basic income without means-test or work-test compatible with social justice and individual self-worth? Does it open up the space for an end to demeaning labour and a resurgence of voluntary work and cultural life? Is it affordable? This collection of short but compelling essays, all previously published in Social Europe, allows both proponents and opponents to make their case and is designed to extend this vital discussion to a wider audience.

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Multi-employer bargaining under pressure

This edited volume maps different trajectories in national collective bargaining systems in Europe since the Great Recession. Since the start of the crisis in 2008, wage setting and collective bargaining systems in many EU countries have been under tremendous pressure to follow the logic of companies and market imperatives. Fostering decentralization of collective bargaining has been one of the key objectives of the New European Economic Governance.

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Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work

Platform work, understood as the matching of the supply of and demand for paid work through an online platform, is still relatively small in scale but is developing rapidly in the EU and becoming increasingly important for the digital economy. This new report identifies 10 common types of platform work, which cover most platform workers in the EU. It highlights the diverse nature of platform work as one of the main reasons that it has been so challenging to define and regulate, and identifies some actions that can be taken to not just harness the potential of platform work for economic development, but also to ensure that it develops in a way that respects workers' rights and is fair and sustainable for business.

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