The European Social Question Tackling Key Controversies.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle upon Tyne :
Agenda Publishing,
2022.
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Colección: | Building progressive alternatives.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Information
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations and Acronyms
- Dedication
- Introduction: "Social Europe"
- irrelevant, catching up or dangerous?
- 1 What is the European social question?
- Grasping the social question from different conceptual angles
- Inequality, justice and solidarity
- Social rights and social citizenship
- Welfare states and the European social model
- EU socio-economic governance and Social Europe
- Cohesion and convergence
- Explanations for the EU's social deficit
- Institutional factors: a fundamental asymmetry between economic and social integration
- Ideational factors: the neoliberal turn and the death of Social Europe
- Political factors: joint-decision trap and sovereignty
- Material and social factors: the hegemony of economic actors
- Reflecting on the normative roots of the European social question
- The internationalist or intergovernmentalist perspective
- The transnationalist or federalist perspective
- Pluralist perspectives
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Questions to debate
- 2 Is the EU a key player in addressing social issues?
- Piecemeal prerogatives across policy areas
- Differentiated modes of policy-making and governance
- A failed political project
- The EU and national welfare states
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Questions to debate
- 3 Are socially minded actors too weak in EU policy-making?
- The institutional triangle
- The European Commission
- The Council
- The European Parliament
- The independent institutions
- The Court of Justice of the European Union
- The European Central Bank
- The member states
- Political coalitions and socio-economic models
- The implementation of social policies
- Organized civil society
- The European Economic and Social Committee
- Trade unions
- Non-governmental organizations
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Questions to debate
- 4 Is European social regulation a thing of the past?
- The patchy rise of social issues in the EU's primary law
- A gradual build up in the treaties
- The advent of EU-wide fundamental social rights?
- The laborious extension of social regulation through legislation
- Free movement and labour law
- Health
- The key role of case law
- The codification of case law through legislation
- Strengthening legislation through case law
- From extending to curtailing social rights?
- Conclusion
- Further reading
- Questions to debate
- 5 Does liberalization undermine social cohesion?
- The freedom to provide services and social dumping
- From attempts to strike the balance between market freedom and labour law ...
- ... To a pro-market offensive
- And back
- The marketization of welfare
- From public service to competitive markets
- Liberalizing welfare services through sectoral directives
- Limiting public financing via the control of state aid