Changing European employment and welfare regimes
Subtitle: the influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms
By: edited by Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin.
Contributors: Heidenreich, Martin.; Zeitlin, Jonathan.
Series: Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare -- 12
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9780415482783; 9780203878873
Subjects: Manpower policy -- European Union countries; European Union countries -- Economic policy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The open method of coordination : a pathway to the gradual transformation of national employment and welfare regimes? / Martin Heidenreich; title: Neither convergence nor frozen paths : bounded learning, international diffusion of reforms, and the open method of coordination / Jelle Visser; title: Unemployment protection reform in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK : policy learning through open coordination? / Minna Van Gerven and Mieke Beckers; title: The open method of coordination and national social policy reforms in Belgium and France : window dressing, one-way impact, or reciprocal influence? / Marie-Pierre Hamel and Bart Vanhercke; title: Joining the European employment strategy : Europeanization of employment policy making in the Baltic States / Kerstin Jacobsson and Charlotte West; title: Soft Europeanization? : the differential influence of the European employment strategy in Belgium, Spain, and Sweden / Mariely L"pez-Santana; title: North, South, East, West : the implementation of the European employment strategy in Denmark, the UK, Spain, and Poland / Mikkel Mailand; title: The micro-politics of the open method of coordination : NGOs and the social inclusion process in Sweden / Kerstin Jacobsson and Håkan Johansson; title: Europeanization of domestic employment and welfare regimes : the German, Italian, and French experiences / JENNY PREUNKERT AND SASCHA ZIRRA; title: The open method of coordination and reform of national social and employment policies : influences, mechanisms, effects / JONATHAN ZEITLIN.