Kenneth A. Armstrong
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199278374
- eISBN:
- 9780191594861
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278374.001.0001
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
Strategies and policies to combat poverty and social exclusion have traditionally been developed within the boundaries of nation states. For European Union Member States, these strategies and ...
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Strategies and policies to combat poverty and social exclusion have traditionally been developed within the boundaries of nation states. For European Union Member States, these strategies and policies have been subject to the increasing influence of EU governance. Since 2000, policy coordination through the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has served as the key vehicle for the Europeanization of domestic strategies and policies. This book explores the possibilities of, and limits to, the Europeanization of domestic social policy. Notwithstanding substantial changes at the constitutional, governance, and policy levels through the Lisbon Treaty and a decade of the Lisbon Strategy, the identity and purposes of institutionalizing EU social policy interventions remains unsettled. At the same time, domestic polities, politics, and policies act as institutional mediators of EU pressures to modernize and reform domestic social policies. After a decade of EU intervention, the percentage of households at risk of income poverty has barely changed. Yet, economic and political retrenchment in the wake of a global recession makes the need to strengthen governance tools and to enhance coordination both more urgent and more difficult.Less
Strategies and policies to combat poverty and social exclusion have traditionally been developed within the boundaries of nation states. For European Union Member States, these strategies and policies have been subject to the increasing influence of EU governance. Since 2000, policy coordination through the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) has served as the key vehicle for the Europeanization of domestic strategies and policies. This book explores the possibilities of, and limits to, the Europeanization of domestic social policy. Notwithstanding substantial changes at the constitutional, governance, and policy levels through the Lisbon Treaty and a decade of the Lisbon Strategy, the identity and purposes of institutionalizing EU social policy interventions remains unsettled. At the same time, domestic polities, politics, and policies act as institutional mediators of EU pressures to modernize and reform domestic social policies. After a decade of EU intervention, the percentage of households at risk of income poverty has barely changed. Yet, economic and political retrenchment in the wake of a global recession makes the need to strengthen governance tools and to enhance coordination both more urgent and more difficult.
Kenneth A. Armstrong
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- January 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199278374
- eISBN:
- 9780191594861
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199278374.003.0003
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law
This chapter highlights the origins of, and motivations for, EU interventions to combat poverty and social exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s, and contrasts these with the explicit treaty commitments ...
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This chapter highlights the origins of, and motivations for, EU interventions to combat poverty and social exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s, and contrasts these with the explicit treaty commitments to combat social exclusion and new policy objectives of modernizing social protection systems emerging in the late 1990s. The development of the Lisbon strategy in 2000 provided a policy context and matrix for the articulation of these new commitments and objectives with the OMC as the governance tool for their implementation. In detail, the chapter explores the development and institutionalization of the architectural elements of EU social policy coordination, from the adoption of common objectives and indicators, to the production of national action plans, joint reports, and peer reviews. Notwithstanding the absence of more legally-defined processes, what emerged was a highly institutionalized process through recursive interaction of governmental and non-governmental actors.Less
This chapter highlights the origins of, and motivations for, EU interventions to combat poverty and social exclusion in the 1980s and 1990s, and contrasts these with the explicit treaty commitments to combat social exclusion and new policy objectives of modernizing social protection systems emerging in the late 1990s. The development of the Lisbon strategy in 2000 provided a policy context and matrix for the articulation of these new commitments and objectives with the OMC as the governance tool for their implementation. In detail, the chapter explores the development and institutionalization of the architectural elements of EU social policy coordination, from the adoption of common objectives and indicators, to the production of national action plans, joint reports, and peer reviews. Notwithstanding the absence of more legally-defined processes, what emerged was a highly institutionalized process through recursive interaction of governmental and non-governmental actors.
Bengt-Åke Lundvall and Edward Lorenz
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847429247
- eISBN:
- 9781447305613
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847429247.003.0013
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
This chapter compares the Europe 2020 strategy with the Lisbon strategy from 2000. It shows how the intentions behind the Lisbon strategy to promote knowledge-based economic growth with more social ...
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This chapter compares the Europe 2020 strategy with the Lisbon strategy from 2000. It shows how the intentions behind the Lisbon strategy to promote knowledge-based economic growth with more social cohesion were given after only five years and how the Open Method of Coordination was too soft for implementing the intentions behind the strategy. The weaknesses that made the Lisbon strategy insufficient as scaffolding for the Euro-collaboration remain in the Europe 2020 strategy, and now, only a movement towards a European Economic and Social Union, with strong focus upon more social and more regional cohesion, can save the European project. But this would require a kind of leadership, common vision and capacity to build democratic support currently missing in Europe.Less
This chapter compares the Europe 2020 strategy with the Lisbon strategy from 2000. It shows how the intentions behind the Lisbon strategy to promote knowledge-based economic growth with more social cohesion were given after only five years and how the Open Method of Coordination was too soft for implementing the intentions behind the strategy. The weaknesses that made the Lisbon strategy insufficient as scaffolding for the Euro-collaboration remain in the Europe 2020 strategy, and now, only a movement towards a European Economic and Social Union, with strong focus upon more social and more regional cohesion, can save the European project. But this would require a kind of leadership, common vision and capacity to build democratic support currently missing in Europe.
Phil Syrpis
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199277209
- eISBN:
- 9780191707445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277209.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law, Employment Law
This chapter considers the various interventions of the political institutions in the labour law field both in their own right, and in the context of the approach of the Court (analysed in detail in ...
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This chapter considers the various interventions of the political institutions in the labour law field both in their own right, and in the context of the approach of the Court (analysed in detail in Chapter 4). Harmonization, minimum standard-setting, and the open method of coordination (OMC) are discussed with reference to their capacity to achieve the integrationist, economic, and social objectives of the European Union, and to the constraints imposed by the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. The Working Time Directive and Lisbon Strategy are subjected to close scrutiny.Less
This chapter considers the various interventions of the political institutions in the labour law field both in their own right, and in the context of the approach of the Court (analysed in detail in Chapter 4). Harmonization, minimum standard-setting, and the open method of coordination (OMC) are discussed with reference to their capacity to achieve the integrationist, economic, and social objectives of the European Union, and to the constraints imposed by the principles of subsidiarity and proportionality. The Working Time Directive and Lisbon Strategy are subjected to close scrutiny.
Jutta Allmendinger, Christian Ebner, and Rita Nikolai
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- February 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780195376630
- eISBN:
- 9780199865499
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195376630.003.0014
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
This chapter discusses how important the EU's involvement in education has been. It outlines Europe's demographic development, the change in labor markets and human resources. The interaction of ...
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This chapter discusses how important the EU's involvement in education has been. It outlines Europe's demographic development, the change in labor markets and human resources. The interaction of these three areas of society points to an enormous need for action. It then discusses how to gauge the level of education in a population, and what absolute and relative measures of educational achievement could look like. It examines the educational policy objectives formulated by the EU, and describes to what extent the European countries have already accomplished them. The chapter discusses two fundamental questions: first, how coherent are the individual goal dimensions of the Lisbon strategy and what can we learn from the degree of their correlation for future empirical research on education? Second, what do the indicators allow us to say about issues of equal opportunity and social exclusion in European countries, and how much diversity is there within Europe in this respect? It concludes with a summary illustrating the analytical potential of the indicators and showing that purportedly simple measures have more to them than first meets the eye.Less
This chapter discusses how important the EU's involvement in education has been. It outlines Europe's demographic development, the change in labor markets and human resources. The interaction of these three areas of society points to an enormous need for action. It then discusses how to gauge the level of education in a population, and what absolute and relative measures of educational achievement could look like. It examines the educational policy objectives formulated by the EU, and describes to what extent the European countries have already accomplished them. The chapter discusses two fundamental questions: first, how coherent are the individual goal dimensions of the Lisbon strategy and what can we learn from the degree of their correlation for future empirical research on education? Second, what do the indicators allow us to say about issues of equal opportunity and social exclusion in European countries, and how much diversity is there within Europe in this respect? It concludes with a summary illustrating the analytical potential of the indicators and showing that purportedly simple measures have more to them than first meets the eye.
Phil Syrpis
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199277209
- eISBN:
- 9780191707445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277209.003.0006
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law, Employment Law
This concluding chapter summarizes the main findings of the book. It is argued that the Court's case law institutionalizes tensions between the integrationist objectives of the EU and the economic ...
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This concluding chapter summarizes the main findings of the book. It is argued that the Court's case law institutionalizes tensions between the integrationist objectives of the EU and the economic and social objectives of national regulation in the labour law field which need not exist. The interventions of the political institutions appear less hostile to diversity; but they tend systematically to privilege the economic over the social. It is argued that a clear commitment to the social rationale and a reorientation of the Lisbon Strategy to would contribute towards the legitimacy of the European polity.Less
This concluding chapter summarizes the main findings of the book. It is argued that the Court's case law institutionalizes tensions between the integrationist objectives of the EU and the economic and social objectives of national regulation in the labour law field which need not exist. The interventions of the political institutions appear less hostile to diversity; but they tend systematically to privilege the economic over the social. It is argued that a clear commitment to the social rationale and a reorientation of the Lisbon Strategy to would contribute towards the legitimacy of the European polity.
Phil Syrpis
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199277209
- eISBN:
- 9780191707445
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199277209.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, EU Law, Employment Law
This chapter categorises the various objectives which EU intervention in domestic labour law may be thought to serve into three broad rationales, and draws out the implications which a commitment to ...
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This chapter categorises the various objectives which EU intervention in domestic labour law may be thought to serve into three broad rationales, and draws out the implications which a commitment to each of the integrationist, economic, and social rationale may, or must, entail. Much of the focus is on the integrationist rationale, and to a critique of the various actors' understanding of the elimination of barriers to free movement and distortions of competition. It is suggested that mere differences between national laws need not be seen as problematic from the perspective of market integration — contrary to the dominant strand of the Court of Justice's case law. The impact of EMU is considered as well as the relationships between the economic and social objectives which may underlie EU intervention, in the light of the evolution of the Lisbon Strategy.Less
This chapter categorises the various objectives which EU intervention in domestic labour law may be thought to serve into three broad rationales, and draws out the implications which a commitment to each of the integrationist, economic, and social rationale may, or must, entail. Much of the focus is on the integrationist rationale, and to a critique of the various actors' understanding of the elimination of barriers to free movement and distortions of competition. It is suggested that mere differences between national laws need not be seen as problematic from the perspective of market integration — contrary to the dominant strand of the Court of Justice's case law. The impact of EMU is considered as well as the relationships between the economic and social objectives which may underlie EU intervention, in the light of the evolution of the Lisbon Strategy.
Eric Marlier, A.B. Atkinson, Bea Cantillon, and Brian Nolan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348845
- eISBN:
- 9781447303770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348845.003.0002
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter presents a brief historical account of the development of EU cooperation in social policy from the Treaty of Rome to the re-focused Lisbon Strategy post-March 2005, and the adoption of ...
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This chapter presents a brief historical account of the development of EU cooperation in social policy from the Treaty of Rome to the re-focused Lisbon Strategy post-March 2005, and the adoption of new working arrangements and revised objectives for the Open Method of Coordination on social protection and social inclusion in March 2006, leading up to the proposed designation of 2010 as the ‘European Year of combating poverty and social exclusion’.Less
This chapter presents a brief historical account of the development of EU cooperation in social policy from the Treaty of Rome to the re-focused Lisbon Strategy post-March 2005, and the adoption of new working arrangements and revised objectives for the Open Method of Coordination on social protection and social inclusion in March 2006, leading up to the proposed designation of 2010 as the ‘European Year of combating poverty and social exclusion’.
Paul Davies and Mark Freedland
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- January 2009
- ISBN:
- 9780199217878
- eISBN:
- 9780191712326
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199217878.003.0005
- Subject:
- Law, Employment Law
This chapter does three things. First, it compares the British approach to labour market regulation with the approaches of the OECD, on the one hand, and the European Community, on the other. Second, ...
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This chapter does three things. First, it compares the British approach to labour market regulation with the approaches of the OECD, on the one hand, and the European Community, on the other. Second, it develops a typology of regulatory strategies for implementing labour market regulation and analyses the major developments described in the book according to this typology. Third, it argues that the role for employment law under the approach adopted by ‘New Labour’ is seen as far more challenging and sophisticated than its role under either the traditional doctrine of collective laissez-faire or the deregulatory policies of its Conservative predecessors.Less
This chapter does three things. First, it compares the British approach to labour market regulation with the approaches of the OECD, on the one hand, and the European Community, on the other. Second, it develops a typology of regulatory strategies for implementing labour market regulation and analyses the major developments described in the book according to this typology. Third, it argues that the role for employment law under the approach adopted by ‘New Labour’ is seen as far more challenging and sophisticated than its role under either the traditional doctrine of collective laissez-faire or the deregulatory policies of its Conservative predecessors.
Eric Marlier, A.B. Atkinson, Bea Cantillon, and Brian Nolan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348845
- eISBN:
- 9781447303770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348845.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter considers the challenge of advancing the Social Inclusion Process in the context of the re-focused Lisbon Strategy, and of embedding the Process in domestic policies and implementing a ...
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This chapter considers the challenge of advancing the Social Inclusion Process in the context of the re-focused Lisbon Strategy, and of embedding the Process in domestic policies and implementing a social-inclusion mainstreaming through establishing a scheme of systematic policy assessments at EU, national, and sub-national levels. It proposes the setting of targets, fundamentally restructured NAPs/inclusion, and working towards more ‘joined-up’ government, on the basis of committed administrative and political leadership, and parliamentary scrutiny. The chapter also stresses the importance of raising awareness of the Social Inclusion Process, and of further mobilising the different actors involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion at the subnational, national, and EU levels.Less
This chapter considers the challenge of advancing the Social Inclusion Process in the context of the re-focused Lisbon Strategy, and of embedding the Process in domestic policies and implementing a social-inclusion mainstreaming through establishing a scheme of systematic policy assessments at EU, national, and sub-national levels. It proposes the setting of targets, fundamentally restructured NAPs/inclusion, and working towards more ‘joined-up’ government, on the basis of committed administrative and political leadership, and parliamentary scrutiny. The chapter also stresses the importance of raising awareness of the Social Inclusion Process, and of further mobilising the different actors involved in the fight against poverty and social exclusion at the subnational, national, and EU levels.
Anton Hemerijck and Peter Sleegers
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420206
- eISBN:
- 9781447303794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420206.003.0010
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
In recent years, the European integration project has become increasingly controversial in the polarised political landscaped of the Netherlands. The legality of engaging in further deepening and ...
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In recent years, the European integration project has become increasingly controversial in the polarised political landscaped of the Netherlands. The legality of engaging in further deepening and broadening of EU integration, in terms of the further enlargement of the EU and a sensitive constitutional discourse on it, has been challenging in Dutch society, which has been formerly and traditionally been supportive of the EU. This chapter discusses the Netherlands' social and economic normalisation during the period of the EU controversy. The Dutch politicians failed to communicate European policies to their public. Therefore, a political controversy on EU socio-economic policy directions occurred in the Netherlands. While the Dutch socio-economic policy of the 1990s fed the European socio-economic discourse, to which the Kok reports and the Lisbon Strategy testify, the European socio-economic policy agenda has reinforced national reforms in the Netherlands. In recent years, three social policy reforms in the Netherlands were intensified by the EU: the reforms of disability pensions, the prevention of long-term unemployment, and the equal treatment of dossier.Less
In recent years, the European integration project has become increasingly controversial in the polarised political landscaped of the Netherlands. The legality of engaging in further deepening and broadening of EU integration, in terms of the further enlargement of the EU and a sensitive constitutional discourse on it, has been challenging in Dutch society, which has been formerly and traditionally been supportive of the EU. This chapter discusses the Netherlands' social and economic normalisation during the period of the EU controversy. The Dutch politicians failed to communicate European policies to their public. Therefore, a political controversy on EU socio-economic policy directions occurred in the Netherlands. While the Dutch socio-economic policy of the 1990s fed the European socio-economic discourse, to which the Kok reports and the Lisbon Strategy testify, the European socio-economic policy agenda has reinforced national reforms in the Netherlands. In recent years, three social policy reforms in the Netherlands were intensified by the EU: the reforms of disability pensions, the prevention of long-term unemployment, and the equal treatment of dossier.
Alexander Somek
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780199693375
- eISBN:
- 9780191729737
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199693375.003.0002
- Subject:
- Law, Philosophy of Law, EU Law
The impact of the European Union on the social policies of its Member States can generally be described in terms of domestication, assimilation, and disarmament. Social policy has been domesticated ...
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The impact of the European Union on the social policies of its Member States can generally be described in terms of domestication, assimilation, and disarmament. Social policy has been domesticated in the sense of remaining largely within the competence of the Member States, however, it is also subject to constraints by the law of the internal market. Assimilation has occurred where the fundamental freedoms were used in order to make social benefits move across national bounds. Disarmament is epitomized by monetary union and by recent developments in the Court’s case law that have moved beyond domestication and ushered in a new era of market liberalisation. The development affects, in particular, industrial relations and systems of collective wage determination. The rise to prominence of European anti-discrimination law needs be seen and assessed against this background.Less
The impact of the European Union on the social policies of its Member States can generally be described in terms of domestication, assimilation, and disarmament. Social policy has been domesticated in the sense of remaining largely within the competence of the Member States, however, it is also subject to constraints by the law of the internal market. Assimilation has occurred where the fundamental freedoms were used in order to make social benefits move across national bounds. Disarmament is epitomized by monetary union and by recent developments in the Court’s case law that have moved beyond domestication and ushered in a new era of market liberalisation. The development affects, in particular, industrial relations and systems of collective wage determination. The rise to prominence of European anti-discrimination law needs be seen and assessed against this background.
Juho Saari and Kari Välimäki
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420206
- eISBN:
- 9781447303794
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420206.003.0014
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
European social policy has evolved significantly since the late 1980s, when the idea of a social dimension to the EU emerged onto European policy agendas. By the turn of the early 1990s, the common ...
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European social policy has evolved significantly since the late 1980s, when the idea of a social dimension to the EU emerged onto European policy agendas. By the turn of the early 1990s, the common points of departure were the concepts of subsidiarity and proportionality, both of which underlined the limited competence of the European level to proceed in this field. Today, following the introduction of the Lisbon Strategy and the open method of coordination (OMC), attention has been focused on the social aspects of European integration at the European level. This chapter discusses and clarifies the key issues debated in the previous chapters and aims to draw together some policy conclusions. It begins by discussing the European social model concept, and assesses its potential usefulness in European social policy debates, identifying at least ten of its dimensions. The chapter ends with policy conclusions on the question of whether there is a need for new balance in social policy between the Member States and the EU.Less
European social policy has evolved significantly since the late 1980s, when the idea of a social dimension to the EU emerged onto European policy agendas. By the turn of the early 1990s, the common points of departure were the concepts of subsidiarity and proportionality, both of which underlined the limited competence of the European level to proceed in this field. Today, following the introduction of the Lisbon Strategy and the open method of coordination (OMC), attention has been focused on the social aspects of European integration at the European level. This chapter discusses and clarifies the key issues debated in the previous chapters and aims to draw together some policy conclusions. It begins by discussing the European social model concept, and assesses its potential usefulness in European social policy debates, identifying at least ten of its dimensions. The chapter ends with policy conclusions on the question of whether there is a need for new balance in social policy between the Member States and the EU.
Jon Kvist and Juho Saari (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847420206
- eISBN:
- 9781447303794
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847420206.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern, with European Union (EU) social policy fragmented and merely symbolic. Through eleven country studies, ...
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This book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern, with European Union (EU) social policy fragmented and merely symbolic. Through eleven country studies, it reveals that EU-level developments increasingly interact with social protection in all countries – a remarkable transformation from ten years ago. Using the same thematic framework, the book systematically compares how Europeanisation of social protection differs across countries chosen to reflect increasing EU diversity. For each country, specialists in social protection evaluate the form and extent of Europeanisation, comparing national strategies with the European social model. They examine recent reforms and responses to EU initiatives, including the Lisbon strategy and the open method of coordination, the extension of the internal market to services, the Economic and Monetary Union, and EU enlargement. Differences in Europeanisation reflect not only different political legacies, but also different adjustment pressures in terms of national welfare regime and degree of competitiveness. The book brings together both new evidence and new perspectives of the changing patterns of social policy in Europe.Less
This book challenges the common view that social protection is exclusively a national concern, with European Union (EU) social policy fragmented and merely symbolic. Through eleven country studies, it reveals that EU-level developments increasingly interact with social protection in all countries – a remarkable transformation from ten years ago. Using the same thematic framework, the book systematically compares how Europeanisation of social protection differs across countries chosen to reflect increasing EU diversity. For each country, specialists in social protection evaluate the form and extent of Europeanisation, comparing national strategies with the European social model. They examine recent reforms and responses to EU initiatives, including the Lisbon strategy and the open method of coordination, the extension of the internal market to services, the Economic and Monetary Union, and EU enlargement. Differences in Europeanisation reflect not only different political legacies, but also different adjustment pressures in terms of national welfare regime and degree of competitiveness. The book brings together both new evidence and new perspectives of the changing patterns of social policy in Europe.
Nathalie Morel, Bruno Palier, and Joakim Palme (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- May 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781847429247
- eISBN:
- 9781447305613
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781847429247.001.0001
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
Since the late 1990s, new ideas and strategies concerning the role and shape of the Welfare State have been formulated. All these analyses and policy developments point towards a similar policy logic ...
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Since the late 1990s, new ideas and strategies concerning the role and shape of the Welfare State have been formulated. All these analyses and policy developments point towards a similar policy logic based on ‘social investment’. The aim of this book is to map out the contours of this new perspective, both at the ideational level and in terms of the policies implemented throughout Europe. The book also aims at assessing the achievements, as well as the shortcomings, of this strategy. In doing so it provides a critical analysis of the content and coherence of the social investment ideas and policies, and opens up for a discussion of the new challenges that Europe is facing — such as population ageing, the impact of the financial crisis, environmental issues — and of whether the social investment perspective can provide adequate responses to these challenges.Less
Since the late 1990s, new ideas and strategies concerning the role and shape of the Welfare State have been formulated. All these analyses and policy developments point towards a similar policy logic based on ‘social investment’. The aim of this book is to map out the contours of this new perspective, both at the ideational level and in terms of the policies implemented throughout Europe. The book also aims at assessing the achievements, as well as the shortcomings, of this strategy. In doing so it provides a critical analysis of the content and coherence of the social investment ideas and policies, and opens up for a discussion of the new challenges that Europe is facing — such as population ageing, the impact of the financial crisis, environmental issues — and of whether the social investment perspective can provide adequate responses to these challenges.
Eric Marlier, A.B. Atkinson, Bea Cantillon, and Brian Nolan
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861348845
- eISBN:
- 9781447303770
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861348845.003.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter sets the scene and introduces the context and contents of this book. The book aims to describe the progress made since Lisbon with the EU Social Inclusion Process, and to examine the ...
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This chapter sets the scene and introduces the context and contents of this book. The book aims to describe the progress made since Lisbon with the EU Social Inclusion Process, and to examine the challenges faced in taking forward the Process in new circumstances. Its central subject is the future implementation of the Social Inclusion Process. The chapter outlines the contents of each of the subsequent chapters, and seeks to set the European debate in a wider global context. Since 2000, there has been significant progress in the EU approach to social inclusion. The discussion also describes the concepts of enlargement, global poverty, and children mainstreaming.Less
This chapter sets the scene and introduces the context and contents of this book. The book aims to describe the progress made since Lisbon with the EU Social Inclusion Process, and to examine the challenges faced in taking forward the Process in new circumstances. Its central subject is the future implementation of the Social Inclusion Process. The chapter outlines the contents of each of the subsequent chapters, and seeks to set the European debate in a wider global context. Since 2000, there has been significant progress in the EU approach to social inclusion. The discussion also describes the concepts of enlargement, global poverty, and children mainstreaming.
Kathia Serrano-Velarde
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199595341
- eISBN:
- 9780191750755
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199595341.003.0011
- Subject:
- Business and Management, Political Economy
The paper addresses the reframing of "universities" in EU policy discourse since the launch of the Lisbon strategy in 2000. It shows how and why universities came to be understood as investment ...
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The paper addresses the reframing of "universities" in EU policy discourse since the launch of the Lisbon strategy in 2000. It shows how and why universities came to be understood as investment objects for private investors. Hence, the study focuses on the development of an argumentative arsenal aimed at justifying and legitimizing capitalist working logics in higher education. At the centre of our theoretical approach to this discursive form of institutionalization lies the notion of "test" and "critique" as developed by Boltanski and Chiapello. We therefore work with EU policy documents spanning a 5 year period (from 2003 to 2008) and analyse how the discursive construction of higher education investments went hand in hand with the institutionalisation of a European benchmark.Less
The paper addresses the reframing of "universities" in EU policy discourse since the launch of the Lisbon strategy in 2000. It shows how and why universities came to be understood as investment objects for private investors. Hence, the study focuses on the development of an argumentative arsenal aimed at justifying and legitimizing capitalist working logics in higher education. At the centre of our theoretical approach to this discursive form of institutionalization lies the notion of "test" and "critique" as developed by Boltanski and Chiapello. We therefore work with EU policy documents spanning a 5 year period (from 2003 to 2008) and analyse how the discursive construction of higher education investments went hand in hand with the institutionalisation of a European benchmark.
Eduardo Crespo Suárez and Amparo Serrano Pascual
- Published in print:
- 2007
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9781861347978
- eISBN:
- 9781447302735
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781861347978.003.0006
- Subject:
- Sociology, Comparative and Historical Sociology
This chapter talks about developments found at the level of the European Union (EU). It presents a discursive analysis of a selection of policy documents of the EU that are relevant in the context of ...
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This chapter talks about developments found at the level of the European Union (EU). It presents a discursive analysis of a selection of policy documents of the EU that are relevant in the context of activation policies. One of these is the documents that were produced in the context of the Lisbon Strategy and the European Employment Strategy (EES). The chapter also considers the political status and the paradoxical rhetoric of European discourse.Less
This chapter talks about developments found at the level of the European Union (EU). It presents a discursive analysis of a selection of policy documents of the EU that are relevant in the context of activation policies. One of these is the documents that were produced in the context of the Lisbon Strategy and the European Employment Strategy (EES). The chapter also considers the political status and the paradoxical rhetoric of European discourse.
Bea Cantillon
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199926589
- eISBN:
- 9780199369720
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199926589.003.0010
- Subject:
- Social Work, Social Policy
This chapter summarizes the main findings and put them into the perspective of the changed post-war balance between growth, employment and social inclusion. Clearly, the experience in the EU before ...
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This chapter summarizes the main findings and put them into the perspective of the changed post-war balance between growth, employment and social inclusion. Clearly, the experience in the EU before the crisis is indicative of though trade-offs between employment-centred welfare reform, social investment and poverty reduction. Disappointing poverty trends in Europe not only signal structural difficulties of developed welfare states today to reduce income poverty, but also limitations of the newpolicy paradigm itself to overcome these deficiencies. Social investment entails the danger of instrumentalisation and undervaluation of social redistribution and of the underestimation of the trade-offs welfare states are confronted with. The new policy paradigm is an important stepping stone towards social progress on the condition that a better distribution of jobs, adequate social protection and care, effective social redistribution supported by social innovation are part and parcel of the investment strategy, and vice versa.Less
This chapter summarizes the main findings and put them into the perspective of the changed post-war balance between growth, employment and social inclusion. Clearly, the experience in the EU before the crisis is indicative of though trade-offs between employment-centred welfare reform, social investment and poverty reduction. Disappointing poverty trends in Europe not only signal structural difficulties of developed welfare states today to reduce income poverty, but also limitations of the newpolicy paradigm itself to overcome these deficiencies. Social investment entails the danger of instrumentalisation and undervaluation of social redistribution and of the underestimation of the trade-offs welfare states are confronted with. The new policy paradigm is an important stepping stone towards social progress on the condition that a better distribution of jobs, adequate social protection and care, effective social redistribution supported by social innovation are part and parcel of the investment strategy, and vice versa.
Serena Romano
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781447312710
- eISBN:
- 9781447312727
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
- DOI:
- 10.1332/policypress/9781447312710.003.0005
- Subject:
- Political Science, Public Policy
Chapter five discusses how CEE countries as new EU member states had to shift from the former residual social safety net to a new “inclusive” approach to anti-poverty measures as advocated by EU ...
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Chapter five discusses how CEE countries as new EU member states had to shift from the former residual social safety net to a new “inclusive” approach to anti-poverty measures as advocated by EU institutions. It describes the main challenges that post-communist countries had to deal with in the construction of minimum income schemes and in the adoption of new ideas of social justice, mainly shaped by the condition of need as a main criterion regulating the individual right to state assistance. This chapter also traces the main patterns of poverty in CEE countries until 2008. It shows how during those years CEE countries started diverging significantly in their construction of poverty in accordance with internal priorities and visions underlying the distinction between deserving and non-deserving categories of poor.Less
Chapter five discusses how CEE countries as new EU member states had to shift from the former residual social safety net to a new “inclusive” approach to anti-poverty measures as advocated by EU institutions. It describes the main challenges that post-communist countries had to deal with in the construction of minimum income schemes and in the adoption of new ideas of social justice, mainly shaped by the condition of need as a main criterion regulating the individual right to state assistance. This chapter also traces the main patterns of poverty in CEE countries until 2008. It shows how during those years CEE countries started diverging significantly in their construction of poverty in accordance with internal priorities and visions underlying the distinction between deserving and non-deserving categories of poor.
