EU Social Policy in the 1990s

EU Social Policy in the 1990s
Author: Gerda Falkner
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 269
Release: 2003-07-13
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1134727348

This book offers an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. Building on this framework, the chapters then examine in detail pre-Maastricht social policy and the 'social partners', the innovations of the Treaty itself, and where EU social policy stands at the end of the 1990s. Case studies of European Works Councils, parental leave, and atypical work, are included to highlight the day-to-day processes at work in social policy formation and the major interest groups and EU institutions involved. This is an up-to-date and accessible study which finds the social policy-making environment in the EU has become increasingly corporatist in the 1990s.

Developments in European Social Policy

Developments in European Social Policy
Author: Rob Sykes
Publisher: Policy Press
Total Pages: 342
Release: 1998
Genre: Political Science
ISBN:

Europe is undergoing a fundamental shift in its economic, political and social structures and this forms the context for significant changes in social and other public policies. The two sets of changes are obviously related - but how? Are European social policies simply responding to these economic and political changes in similar ways, or is the picture still one of difference and diversity between policies and policy systems throughout Europe?Developments in European social policy describes and analyses some of these changes and discusses the patterns of both convergence and divergence in the late 1990s. It provides an invaluable and topical review of trends in European social policy development and is intended for students on social policy, public policy and other social science courses as well as academics in the field.

Single Market to Social Europe

Single Market to Social Europe
Author: Mark Wise
Publisher: Longman Publishing Group
Total Pages: 362
Release: 1993
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

Examines the important implications of the creation of the single market by the end of 1992. The book is divided into two parts; the first deals with the issues and the second part examines the implications of a common European "social policy."

Changing Europe

Changing Europe
Author: Sean Baine
Publisher: NCVO Publications
Total Pages: 232
Release: 1992
Genre: Community development
ISBN:

Public and Social Services in Europe

Public and Social Services in Europe
Author: Hellmut Wollmann
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2016-07-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137574992

This book presents comparative analyses and accounts of the institutional changes that have occurred to the local level delivery of public utilities and personal social services in countries across Europe. Guided by a common conceptual frame and written by leading country experts, the book pursues a “developmental” approach to consider how the public/municipal sector-centred institutionalization of service delivery (climaxing in the 1970s) developed through its New Public Management-inspired and European Union market liberalization-driven restructuring of the 1980s and early 1990s. The book also discusses the most recent phase since the late 1990s, which has been marked by further marketization and privatization of service delivery on the one hand, and some return to public sector provision (“remunicipalization”) on the other. By comprising some 20 European countries, including Central East European “transformation” countries as well as the “sovereign debt”-stricken countries of Southern Europe, the chapters of this volume cover a much broader cross section of countries than other recent publications on the same subject.

The European Union in the 1990s

The European Union in the 1990s
Author: Paul Graham Taylor
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

What is the European Union? The European Union in the 1990s answers this question by presenting an overview of the EU: what it now is, how it evolved into its present form, how the sense of identity with its citizens sustains it, and what is the relationship with the outside world which bestsuits it. Paul Taylor investigates the range of conflicting views on the role of the European Union, and is sharply critical of both the growth of Euroscepticism and calls for a Federalist approach. He shows that, as the conditions of sovereignty are continually changing in the modern world, furtherintegration does not threaten the nation state. On the contrary, he asserts that integration brings advantages for the citizens in Europe. The author sees the European Union as a unique arrangement between states, beneficial to the majority of individuals without threatening national sovereignty. The European Union on the 1990s provides a clear, accessible overview of the EU, ideal for students and those involved in the politics of the European Union.

Integrating UK and European Social Policy

Integrating UK and European Social Policy
Author: Robert Geyer
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2005
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 9781857757644

Does the European Union really matter to British policy? For some it is a leading light, for others an irrelevancy. Given the uneven and evolving nature of EU policy, how can we evaluate its overall impact? This book is the first to combine a clear and detailed introduction to the new science of complexity and its application to social policy, Europeanisation, globalisation and the EU-UK relationship. It includes a detailed review of four key policy areas: employment, labour, gender and monetary relations. "Integrating UK and European Social Policy" provides groundbreaking reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics, history, international relations, economics, social policy and applied social science. It is also useful for academics with an interest in European social policy, and policy makers and shapers, including government and non-government organisations.

Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2015

Social policy in the European Union: state of play 2015
Author: David Natali (OSE)
Publisher: ETUI
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2015-09-23
Genre: European Union countries
ISBN: 2874523747

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).

Social Policy and the Eurocrisis

Social Policy and the Eurocrisis
Author: Georg Menz
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2015-10-12
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137473401

In this study, an international and multidisciplinary team take stock of the promise and shortfalls of 'Social Europe' today, examining the response to the Eurocrisis, the past decade of social policy in the image of the Lisbon Agenda, and the politics that derailed a more Delorsian Europe from ever emerging.