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Introduction: studying social concertation in Europe / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J. Timo Weishaupt -- Social concertation in Europe during the great recession: exploring when governments include social partners in crisis management / Benedikt Bender and Bernhard Ebbinghaus -- Back to the future: Germany's turn to neo-corporatism in times of crisis / J. Timo Weishaupt -- Wage autonomy, political reforms and the absence of social pacts in Denmark / Bjarke Refslund and Jens Lind -- Crisis management in the Netherlands: social concertation and constructive opposition / Marc van der Meer, Anton Hemerijck and Jan Karremans -- Unilateral crisis prevention and crumbling social partnership in Poland / Adam Mrozowicki and Jan Czarzasty -- The rise and fall of Irish social partnership / Aidan Regan -- The decline of social concertation or the crumbling pillars of legitimacy in Spain / Oscar Molina -- A biased pendulum: Italy's oscillations between concertation and disintermediation / Arianna Tassinari and Stefano Sacchi -- The crisis and the changing nature of political exchange in Slovenia / Miroslav Stanojević and Alenka Krašovec -- Conflict or cooperation?: explaining the European Commission's and social partners' preferences for low-level social dialogue / Vincent Lindner -- Social concertation at a cross-road: crisis corporatism or corporatism in crisis? / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J. Timo Weishaupt -- Postscript: social partnership facing the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic / Bernhard Ebbinghaus and J. Timo Weishaupt.