Abstract
Since the early 1980s, Western European labor unions in 11 of 16 West European countries have mobilized protesters in a rising number of general strikes opposing policy reforms by national governments. In over 40 percent of the cases, governments ceded concessions in response. We explain the variation in government responses to general strikes by examining properties of governments, such as type of government and party family. Using an original dataset, we analyze the outcomes of 75 general strikes using logistic regression. We find that concessions to unions are more likely when governments rule in coalition, and are led by center or Christian Democratic parties, compared to social democratic and conservative governments. We offer a tentative explanation based on shifting ideological alliances in multi-party systems.
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