Transnationalization and the judicialization of welfare

欧盟福利国家面临两大挑战：公民权和福利权的跨国化以及政治的司法化。欧洲判例法大大扩大了非从事经济活动的欧盟国民享受非缴费福利服务的资格。然而，尽管这些权利及其潜力被广泛讨论，但还没有系统地研究它们对成员国福利国家的实际影响，这是本项目旨在填补的差距。TransJudFare关注社会援助措施和助学赠款，并询问成员国如何在下级法院，行政部门和立法机构层面应对欧洲判例法。四个成员国的政治学家和律师团队将根据统一的方法绘制五个欧盟西部成员国的变化，沿着沿着不同的维度联合分析。选择奥地利、丹麦、德国、荷兰和英国是因为它们都是移民流动的目标，但在福利国家类型和司法制度等重要方面有所不同。通过绘制和解释对判例法的反应，TransJudFare将丰富欧洲化的政治科学文献，以及法律学者对一体化欧洲法院系统运作的分析。它将系统地阐述司法化和欧盟公民权利对成员国福利国家改革的相关性。TransJudFare跨越了福利国家未来呼吁中概述的几个核心主题，解决了社会公民权问题，欧盟成员国之间日益增加的异质性，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.