[PDF] Social Policy In The Smaller European Union States eBook

Author : Gary B. Cohen
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 15,99 MB
Release : 2011-12-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0857452649

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In Europe and around the world, social policies and welfare services have faced increasing pressure in recent years as a result of political, economic, and social changes. Just as Europe was a leader in the development of the welfare state and the supportive structures of corporatist politics from the 1920s onward, Europe in particular has experienced stresses from globalization and striking innovation in welfare policies. While debates in the United Kingdom, Germany, and France often attract wide international attention, smaller European countries—Belgium, Denmark, Austria, or Finland—are often overlooked. This volume seeks to correct this unfortunate oversight as these smaller countries serve as models for reform, undertaking experiments that only later gain the attention of stymied reformers in the larger countries.

Author : David Natali (OSE)
Publisher : ETUI
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 11,41 MB
Release : 2015-09-23
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 2874523747

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The sixteenth edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play has a triple ambition. First, it provides easily accessible information to a wide audience about recent developments in both EU and domestic social policymaking. Second, the volume provides a more analytical reading, embedding the key developments of the year 2014 in the most recent academic discourses. Third, the forward-looking perspective of the book aims to provide stakeholders and policymakers with specific tools that allow them to discern new opportunities to influence policymaking. In this 2015 edition of Social policy in the European Union: state of play, the authors tackle the topics of the state of EU politics after the parliamentary elections, the socialisation of the European Semester, methods of political protest, the Juncker investment plan, the EU’s contradictory education investment, the EU’s contested influence on national healthcare reforms, and the neoliberal Trojan Horse of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).

Author : Linda Hantrais
Publisher :
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 40,97 MB
Release : 2000
Category : European Union countries
ISBN : 9780333920084

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This text examines the interconnections between social policy making at European level and national policy formation and implementation. It draws on different disciplinary and methodological approaches to social policy analysis while remaining as comprehensive as possible in the country coverage. This extended new edition takes account of the momentous changes that have taken place in the EU from 1995 to 2000, incorporating new material on membership, legislation and policy developments and making reference to modern literature on the subject.

Author : Laurent Goetschel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 1998-10-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780792382805

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Small States in and outside the European Union offers a broad overview of the small states problematic in Europe. It touches upon definition issues, history, security policy, neutrality, EU institutional aspects and also includes contributors from Central and Eastern European countries. It presents a thorough analysis of different scenarios for EU institutional reform and their repercussions on the influence of small member states. The comparative results are visualized in tables. The work contains several contributions from practitioners who give insight into policy games and issues of national sensitivity not usually covered by purely scholarly publications. The European environment has changed dramatically through the processes of regional integration and rising interdependence. Relations between European states both inside and outside the EU are governed as never before by rules, norms, and fixed procedures. The book investigates the consequences of these developments on the foreign and security policy of small states. Academics and professionals from Austria, Denmark, Finland, Ireland, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Slovenia, Sweden, and Switzerland, as well as from the European Commission and the Council of Ministers, elaborate on these issues. Institutional regulations and traditional power politics as well as the foreign and security policy traditions of the states concerned, including the question of neutrality, are investigated. In addition, the book identifies the main interests of small states in today's Europe and offers an overview of different strategies these states apply in the realm of foreign and security policy. The book is interesting for the case studies it offers as well as for the reflections it contains regarding fundamental questions of the essence of statehood in today's Europe.

Author : Daniel V. Preece
Publisher : FirstForumPress
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 16,68 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Political Science
ISBN :

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Why is neoliberalism winning out as a social policy in the European Union? This title demonstrates how, despite the commitment to 'Social Europe' that has been entrenched in the EU treaty framework since the late 1990s, neoliberal actors have successfully reframed the policy debates and affected the welfare policies adopted by the member states.

Author : Robert Steinmetz
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2016-04-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 131705430X

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The effects of recent institutional change within the European Union on small states have often been overlooked. This book offers an accessible, coherent and informative analysis of contemporary and future foreign policy challenges facing small states in Europe. Leading experts analyze the experiences of a number of small states including the Netherlands, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, Luxembourg, Cyprus, Iceland, Austria and Switzerland. Each account, written to a common template, explores the challenges and opportunities faced by each state as a consequence of EU integration, and how their behaviour regarding EU integration has been characterized. In particular, the contributors emphasize the importance of power politics, institutional dynamics and lessons of the past. Innovative and sophisticated, the study draws on the relational understanding of small states to emphasize the implications of institutional change at the European level for the smaller states and to explain how the foreign and European policies of small states in the region are affected by the European Union.

Author : Linda Hantrais
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 44,24 MB
Release : 2017-09-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1137106581

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Taking account of the debates about adapting the Union's institutional structures to accommodate different welfare arrangements and the need for more open forms of European governance, the third edition of this well received book offers a compact, clear and authoritative account of 50 years of social policy formation and implementation across the EU.

Author : B. Maydell v.
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 44,77 MB
Release : 2006-02-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3540297723

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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 : Corti, Francesco
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 38,45 MB
Release : 2022-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1800885261

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While for some scholars the Euro crisis dashed the dream of Social Europe, this thought-provoking book proposes a more nuanced assessment, challenging the notion of austerity as the only way forward. Tracing the evolution of the political debate on European social integration and its interplay with the European economic governance after the Euro crisis, it sheds light on the conflict dynamics and political conditions that enabled the progressive shift away from the initial post-crisis EU ‘conservative reflex’, towards a new European holding environment for flourishing welfare states.

Author : Padraig Flynn
Publisher : DIANE Publishing
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 14,10 MB
Release : 1998-04
Category :
ISBN : 0788142917

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Contents: achievements of the community social dimension; what sort of a society do Europeans want; is there a route back to full employment? a new role for the welfare state; issues of social justice & equality of opportunity; women's rights & opportunities; the opportunities & limitation of internationalization & globalism; the changing nature of production; possible responses to the challenges (priority issues common to the Member States; main policy objectives at European level; reinforcing the social dialogue; health matters; economic & social cohesion; international aspects). Illustrated.