Author: Kvist, Jon
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 1847420206
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 320
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Through eleven country studies, this book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern with EU social policy fragmented and merely symbolic.
Author: Maurizio Ferrera
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 0199284660
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the boundaries of national welfare states? What are the effects of such re-drawing? Boundaries count: they are essential in bringing together individuals, groups, and territorial units, and for activating or strengthening shared ties between them. If the profile of boundaries changes over time, we might expect significant consequences on bonding dynamics, i.e. on the way solidarity is structured in a given politicalcommunity.The book addresses these two questions in a broad historical and comparative perspective. The first chapter sets out a novel theoretical framework which re-conceptualizes the welfare state as a 'bounded space' characterized by a distinct spatial politics. This reconceptualization takes as a starting point the 'state-building tradition' in political science and in particular the work of Stein Rokkan. The second chapter briefly outlines the early emergence and expansion of European welfare statestill World War II. Chapters 3 and 4 analyse the relationship between domestic welfare state developments and the formation of a supranational European Community between the 1960s and the 2000s, illustrating how the process of European integration has increasingly eroded the social sovereignty of thenation-state. Chapter 5 focuses on new emerging forms of sub-national and trans-national social protection, while Chapter 6 discusses current trends and future perspectives for a re-structuring of social protection at the EU level.While there is no doubt that European integration has significantly altered the boundaries of national welfare, de-stabilizing delicate political and institutional equilibria, the book concludes by offering some suggestions on how a viable system of multi-level social protection could possibly emerge within the new EU wide boundary configuration.
Author: Commission of the European Communities. Directorate-General for Employment, Industrial Relations, and Social Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europa
Languages : en
Pages : 96
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Author: Mutual Information System on Social Protection in the Community
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789279031984
Category : European Union
Languages : en
Pages : 36
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Author: Peter A. Cornelisse
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Member States of the European Union are autonomous when it comes to the design of their social protection systems. However, they are committed by a recommendation accepted by the European Council addressing the convergence of social protection objectives and policies. Besides, convergence of social protection systems is expected to come about as a result of economic integration. In this paper we examine whether such convergence has occurred during the past decades, using data on replacement rates and social expenditure ratios. We find a rather strong trend of relative convergence and, only during the past two decades, an absolute convergence of social indicators in the EU. But there are only weak signs that these trends are the result of European integration.
Author: P. Taylor-Gooby
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230286011
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 195
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The new welfare settlement in Europe involves a re-direction of policy in the context of a unified market and currency system and of more stringent economic competition. Realignment of the policy assumptions and goals of the key actors is central to this process. This book reviews the main policy paradigms and analyzes the processes whereby they have changed in the most salient policy areas, and is based on recent interviews with more than two hundred and fifty senior policy actors in seven West European countries.
Author: European Commission. Directorate-General for Employment and Social Affairs
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789289438926
Category : European Union countries
Languages : en
Pages : 68
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Author: B. Maydell v.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 3540297723
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 402
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‘Enabling Social Europe’ examines how the paradigm of the ‘enabling welfare state’ might offer a new perspective for European social policy in the decades to come. The ‘enabling’ concept is perceived as going beyond that of mere ‘activation’, thus also embracing policies aimed at increasing personal autonomy, individual responsibility and social inclusion by endowing individuals with the resources and capabilities needed to manage and balance their life courses in a better way. The study is distinguished by a unique collaboration of social and economic policy experts coming from a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, sociology, political science, and philosophy. The authors seek to shed new light on whether European social policy ought to play a role in the future and, if so, what sort of role that could be. They convincingly argue that despite an implicit normative consensus on the ‘European social model’, there is still room for a multifaceted world in which welfare regimes can maintain their own path-dependent ways of achieving a fair and just society with a high level of welfare for all. The empirical part of the book contains an appraisal of policies and reforms with a view to the ‘enabling welfare state’ approach in four important policy areas: health care, old-age security, family policy, and poverty prevention. Within each sector, the authors compare the policies and practices of two countries attributable to different regime types: Germany and the United Kingdom, Poland and Germany, Finland and Estonia, and Belgium and Denmark. This book is highly recommendable not only for scholars and policymakers active in this field, but also for students of welfare and labour economics, sociology, social policy, political science and law.
Author: Council of Europe
Publisher: Council of Europe
ISBN: 9789287144928
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 156
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The European Social Charter is the only treaty in European law to apply to all the aspects of social protection that are the core of the European social model. It guarantees the right to: social security; the right to social and medical assistance; and the right to benefit from social services. This book explains the content of these provisions, and the case law of the European Committee of Social Rights in the light of recent developments in Europe. The study gives further insight into the scope of the Charter's protection and the fundamental social rights of individuals confronted with various risks, such as illness, old age and poverty.
Author: Kvist, Jon
Publisher: Policy Press
ISBN: 9781847420190
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 324
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Through eleven country studies, this book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern with EU social policy fragmented and merely symbolic.
