Social policy and the Eurocrisis
Subtitle: quo vadis Social Europe
By: [edited by] Amandine Crespy, Lecturer in Political Science and European Studies, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium, Georg Menz, Professor of Political Economy, and Jean Monnet Chair, Goldsmith's College, University of London, UK
Series: Palgrave studies in European Union politics
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
ISBN-13: 9781137473394
Subjects: Politics and government; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Social Policy; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General; Social conditions; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Government / International; Social policy
Description: "Whatever happened to Social Europe? The promise of Jacques Delors seems to have spawned a flurry of European Union directives, yet has since fizzled out. This edited volume, bringing together a team of international interdisciplinary experts from across Europe, systematically explores the EU's social policy activities, both before and after the Eurocrisis. The contributors examine how and why the great expectations remained unfulfilled, but also move the scholarly debate beyond the emphasis on courts and markets. European Commission policy entrepreneurship, eastern enlargement, the shifting ideological contours of European Social Democracy, and the spirit of the Lisbon Agenda have all led to market creation taking strong precedence over market correcting policies. This insightful and comprehensive volume will be of great interest to European Union scholars and practitioners alike"--
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note:; title: 1. Introduction: the Pursuit of Social Europe in the face of the European crisis; Amandine Crespy and Georg Menz; title: 2. Social Europe and the Eurozone crisis: the Importance of the Balance of Class Power in Society; Andreas Bieler; title: 3. Collapsing New Buildings: The Three-Pronged Attack on European Social Policy; Georg Menz; title: 4. Social Europe and Scandinavia: Direct and Indirect Pressure on Former Role Models; Mikkel Mailand; title: 5. Euro-unionism and Wage Policy; Anne Dufresne; title: 6. The Vanishing Promise of a More 'Social' Europe: public services before and after the debt crisis; Amandine Crespy; title: 7. The Europe 2020 Poverty Target and Economic Governance; Paul Copeland and Mary Daly; title: 8. A Multi-Layered Social Europe? Three Emerging Transnational Social Duties in the EU; Ben Crum; title: 9. Conclusions; Amandine Crespy and Georg Menz.