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Author: Daniel Vaughan-Whitehead
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2015-04-30
Total Pages: 640
ISBN-13: 1783476567
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is the first book to provide a comprehensive and systematic assessment of the impact of the crisis and austerity policies on all elements of the European Social Model. This book assesses the situation in each individual EU member state on the basi
Author: Serrano Pascual, Amparo
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2006-07-12
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 184742161X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe notion of the European Social Model (ESM) has been one of the fastest growing in European political and academic discourse in recent years. It is conventionally used to describe the European experience of simultaneously promoting sustainable economic growth and social cohesion. However, the concept has suffered from a lack of clear definition. And where definitions have been found in the literature, they do not necessarily converge. This book presents the outcome of a project coordinated by the European Trade Union Institute in which experts from different countries and social scientific disciplines (sociology, political science and economics) were invited to reflect on both the meaning and political status of the concept of the ESM. In addition to analysing the ambiguities and multiple meanings attributed to the concept, the authors unpick the underlying assumptions and make use of a new approach - the ESM as political project - with which European countries can build consensus and share a common understanding. Offering a new analytical framework and with new empirical evidence, Unwrapping the European Social Model is essential reading for all those involved in European social policy research, education, policy and practice.
Author: Philip B. Whyman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2012-05-31
Total Pages: 412
ISBN-13: 1136286209
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book seeks to analyse the development of the European Union (EU), which was founded upon the principle of the free movement of capital, goods, services and people in 1957. Its central thesis is that, from a practical and theoretical point of view, such a basis is fundamentally at odds with the creation of an interventionist regime that the construction of a social Europe would require. The authors argue convincingly that - economically: the EU does not currently possess the budget or the economic tools to pursue such a strategy; politically: close to none of the institutions of the EU have backed such a policy; practically: conservative and neo-liberal forces (among member states and the institutions of the EU) have repeatedly thwarted any moves in this direction. In reality, the Single Internal Market, Economic and Monetary Union, enlargement, the Lisbon Agenda and European Constitution projects all prioritise supply-side measures and expanding the scope of the market rather than the boosting of demand and other economic intervention. Consequently, constructing a social Europe in the face of this would appear problematic. Hence, in both theory and practice, the idea that there can be a social Europe vis-à-vis neoliberalisation is a contradiction in terms. This controversial book will be an educating and refreshing read for advanced students and academics involved with European politics, the European Union, European Economics and Economic instititutions.
Author: Nick Adnett
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe authors explore the development of the European Social Model & question whether the relatively high level of social protection provided, both in terms of social welfare provision & in the creation of workers' rights & employment regulation, is sustainable.
Author: Assar Lindbeck
Publisher:
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 32
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Jon Erik Dølvik
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2014-12-19
Total Pages: 459
ISBN-13: 0191027820
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEuropeans use 'social models' to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor market. The dominant view in controversy over the social models has been that in the name of equity they have impaired the labor market's efficiency, thereby causing unemployment. But doubt is cast on this supply-side-only diagnosis by powerful macroeconomic developments, from the Europe-wide recession following Germany's post-unification boom to the deepest economic crisis since the interwar Great Depression, which the Eurozone's truncated economic governance structure transformed into a sovereign debt crisis, threatening the Euro's and even EU's very survival. This book explores the interaction of Europe's diverse social models with the major developments that shaped their macroeconomic environment over the quarter century since the fall of the Berlin Wall. It concludes that this environment rather than the social models are primarily responsible for the immense social costs of the crisis.
Author: Giovanni Bertin
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2021-02-26
Total Pages: 264
ISBN-13: 1800378076
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely book critically examines the European Social Model as a contested concept and concrete set of European welfare and governance arrangements. It offers a theoretical and empirical analysis of new economic models and existing European investment strategies to address key issues within post-Covid-19 Europe.
Author: Andreas Faludi
Publisher:
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn this second book in a series on European spatial planning, the authors examine territorial cohesion as a successor concept to the European Spatial Development Perspective. Fundamental ideas about Europe and its distinct "model of society" lie behind the concept of territorial cohesion, which can be understood as a goal of spatial equity that tends to favor development-in-place over selective migration to locations of greater opportunity. This approach contrasts with an American social model that views the equity principle behind territorial cohesion to be diametrically opposed to the efficiency principle based on free mobility of labor.
Author: Prof Dr Dagmar Schiek
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-01-28
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 1472407512
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book addresses the viability of the EU economic and social model within and after the global economic crisis. It identifies four key issues which warrant further discussion: (1) the asymmetry of the legal and policy framework of the euro and potential recalibration; (2) substantive tensions between the EU ‘economic constitution’ and its normative aim of social justice and impacts on national policy; (3) the role of civil society, including the two sides of industry in overcoming these tensions; and (4) the EU’s global aspirations towards the creation of a viable socio-economic model. Its chapters offer two perspectives on each of the four main issues. In drawing these debates together, the book provides a broad understanding as well as starting points for future research. Bringing together different disciplinary approaches, ranging from legal studies to political economy, sociology and macroeconomics, it is a valuable contribution to the debate on the European social model and introduces new insights by focusing on legal and political tensions, the impact of the financial crisis and other economic contexts as well as global dimensions.
Author: Gerard Delanty
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 246
ISBN-13: 9780415347143
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe book examines major social transformations in Europe from the perspective of social theory. It offers an intriguing alternative to studies of the EU which emphasise the replacement of the nation-state by a supra-national authority.
