Transnationalization and the judicialization of welfare

TransJudFare涉及欧洲联盟(欧盟)福利国家面临的两个挑战：公民身份和福利权利的跨国以及政治的司法化。欧洲判例法大大扩大了不从事经济活动的欧盟国民获得非缴费福利服务的资格。然而，尽管这些权利及其潜力得到了广泛讨论，但还没有关于它们对成员国福利国家的实际影响的系统研究，这是该项目旨在填补的空白。TransJudFare侧重于社会援助措施和学习补助金，并询问成员国在下级法院、行政当局和立法机构一级如何回应欧洲判例法。由四个成员国的政治学家和律师组成的团队将根据统一的方法绘制欧盟西部五个成员国的变化地图，在不同维度的分析中联合起来。奥地利、丹麦、德国、荷兰和英国之所以被选中，是因为它们都是移民潮的目标，但在福利国家类型和司法制度等重要方面存在差异。通过描绘和解释对判例法的反应，TransJudFare将丰富关于欧洲化的政治学文献，并将法律学者分析一体化的欧洲法院系统的运作。它将系统地阐述司法化和欧盟公民权利与成员国福利国家改革的相关性。TransJudFare涉及福利国家未来呼吁中概述的几个核心主题，涉及社会公民身份问题、欧盟成员国之间日益增长的异质性、福利国家的新政治，以及福利责任向欧洲层面的潜在转移。

TransJudFare deals with two challenges for welfare states in the European Union (EU): the transnationalization of citizenship and welfare rights and the judicialization of politics. European case law significantly broadens the eligibility of non-economically active EU nationals to non-contributory welfare services. Yet while these rights and their potential are widely discussed, there has been no systematic study of their actual impact on member states welfare states, the gap that this project aims to fill. TransJudFare focuses on social assistance measures and study grants and asks how member states respond to European case law at the level of lower courts, the administration, and the legislature. Teams of political scientists and lawyers in four member states will map changes in five western EU member states according to a unified approach, joining forces in the analyses along different dimensions. Austria, Denmark, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK are chosen as they are all targeted by migration flows but differ in important respects such as welfare state type and judicial system. By mapping and explaining reactions to case law, TransJudFare will enrich the political science literature on Europeanization, and law scholars analyses of the workings of the integrated European court system. It will give a systematic account of the relevance of judicialization and EU citizenship rights for member states welfare state reforms. TransJudFare cuts across several core themes outlined in the Welfare State Futures call, addressing the question of social citizenship, increased heterogeneity among EU member states, the new politics of the welfare state, and potential shifts of welfare responsibility to the European level.