Social Policy and EU Polity-building Through Crises and Beyond
- 200 pages
- English
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Social Policy and EU Polity-building Through Crises and Beyond
About this book
This volume sets out to explain the conditions that have favoured the expansion of the European social dimension during the turbulent decade of 2010–20, when Europe was confronting strong countervailing pressures, including the euro crisis, the refugee crisis and the COVID-19 pandemic.
The study begins by diagnosing a widespread, although slow-burning, crisis across the European Union (EU) resulting from the cumulation of social problems and the systemic tension between EU market integration on the one hand and nationally bounded welfare states and the other. Eight in-depth case studies analyse the political dynamics behind a variety of EU social initiatives aimed at addressing the consequences of free movement of workers, youth unemployment, poverty, eroding wages, environment and climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic. To identify the specific drivers of EU social policymaking empirically, the authors have reconstructed the struggles over concrete policy proposals as they unfolded in the European multilevel setting.
The volume introduces a novel analytical framework for interpreting the transformation of the EU social dimension in times of crisis, when some degree of social co-ordination becomes crucial to bond deeply different (welfare) states together. This in-depth study offers an invaluable analysis for researchers, academics and professionals interested in the functioning of the European polity.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Funding
- 1. Introduction: Beyond the social crisis of Europe?
- 2. Understanding crisis social politics and policymaking in the EU
- 3. Between social protection and polity maintenance: A political history of the European Globalization Adjustment Fund
- 4. The Youth Guarantee: The gradual institutionalization of a residual EU social policy
- 5. A case of EU social policy failure: The European Framework Directive on Minimum Income
- 6. Social policy expansion in the field of intra-EU labour mobility: The revision of the Directive on the Posting of Workers
- 7. The European Minimum Wage Directive: Territorial dynamics and the gradual structuring of partisan conflicts in the EU polity
- 8. Compensating for the net-zero transition: The politics of establishing the Just Transition Fund and Social Climate Fund
- 9. EU employment policy detour to job protection: Explaining the swift adoption of SURE during the COVID-19 crisis
- 10. Eroding or supporting national welfare states?: European social governance after the introduction of the Recovery and Resilience Facility
- 11. Conclusions: Comparative insights into the politics of the social crisis of Europe
- Appendix
- Index