Social policy and the Euro crisis : quo vadis social Europe? /

"Whatever happened to Social Europe? The promise of Jacques Delors seems to have spawned a flurry of European Union directives, yet has since fizzled out. This edited volume, bringing together a team of international interdisciplinary experts from across Europe, systematically explores the EU&#...

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Group Author: Crespy, Amandine; Menz, Georg, 1973
Published: Palgrave Macmillan,
Publisher Address: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire :
Publication Dates: 2015.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Palgrave studies in European Union politics
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Summary: "Whatever happened to Social Europe? The promise of Jacques Delors seems to have spawned a flurry of European Union directives, yet has since fizzled out. This edited volume, bringing together a team of international interdisciplinary experts from across Europe, systematically explores the EU's social policy activities, both before and after the Eurocrisis. The contributors examine how and why the great expectations remained unfulfilled, but also move the scholarly debate beyond the emphasis on courts and markets. European Commission policy entrepreneurship, eastern enlargement, the shifting
Carrier Form: ix, 214 pages : illustrations, forms ; 23 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9781137473394 (hardback) :
1137473398 (hardback)
Index Number: HN373
CLC: D750.8
Call Number: D750.8/S678-4
Contents: Machine generated contents note: -- 1. Introduction: the Pursuit of Social Europe in the face of the European crisis; Amandine Crespy and Georg Menz -- 2. Social Europe and the Eurozone crisis: the Importance of the Balance of Class Power in Society; Andreas Bieler -- 3. Collapsing New Buildings: The Three-Pronged Attack on European Social Policy; Georg Menz -- 4. Social Europe and Scandinavia: Direct and Indirect Pressure on Former Role Models; Mikkel Mailand -- 5. Euro-unionism and Wage Policy; Anne Dufresne -- 6. The Vanishing Promise of a More 'Social' Europe: public services before and