Implementing Social Europe in Times of Crises: Re-established Boundaries of Welfare?
Implementing Social Europe in Times of Crises: Re-established Boundaries of Welfare?
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在危机时期实施社会欧洲:重新确立福利边界?
DOI:
10.1080/01402382.2014.919773
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
4.2
通讯作者:
H. Vollaard
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文献类型:
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作者:
D. Martinsen;H. Vollaard
This volume examines the state of social Europe when European Union principles and policies have to be implemented in the member states while the EU legitimacy crisis and the Great Recession prevail. The volume explores diverse processes, stages and subjects of implementation in a variety of social policies to identify different institutional dynamics and actor behaviours at play. The individual contributions examine the transposition of the patients’ rights directive to the Europeanisation of pension reforms; the role of national parliaments in transposing social Europe; judicial Europeanisation; and the multi-level enforcement of EU decisions. Theoretically, the volume highlights that implementation is often conditioned by domestic politics or comes as a ‘random walk’ due to organisational and cognitive constraints. Empirically, the volume has three main findings. First, the constitutive components of the EU tend to have a contradictory impact on the EU’s social policies and the national welfare systems. Second, crises influence the implementation of social Europe, at times leading to a modification of fundamental principles and content, but not across the board. Third, as a result, there is evidence of differentiated Europeanisation.