001456142 000__ 07959nam\a22004933i\4500 001456142 001__ 1456142 001456142 003__ MiAaPQ 001456142 005__ 20230330003314.0 001456142 006__ m\\\\\o\\d\\\\\\\\ 001456142 007__ cr\cn\nnnunnun 001456142 008__ 230328s2022\\\\xx\\\\\\o\\\\\|||\0\eng\d 001456142 020__ $$a9781788213608 001456142 020__ $$z9781788213578 001456142 035__ $$a(MiAaPQ)EBC6913814 001456142 035__ $$a(Au-PeEL)EBL6913814 001456142 035__ $$a(OCoLC)1303081648 001456142 040__ $$aMiAaPQ$$beng$$erda$$epn$$cMiAaPQ$$dMiAaPQ 001456142 050_4 $$aHN373.5 .C747 2022 001456142 0820_ $$a361.61094 001456142 1001_ $$aCrespy, Amandine. 001456142 24514 $$aThe European Social Question :$$bTackling Key Controversies. 001456142 264_1 $$aNewcastle Upon Tyne :$$bAgenda Publishing,$$c2022. 001456142 264_4 $$c©2022. 001456142 300__ $$a1 online resource (251 pages). 001456142 336__ $$atext$$btxt$$2rdacontent 001456142 337__ $$acomputer$$bc$$2rdamedia 001456142 338__ $$aonline resource$$bcr$$2rdacarrier 001456142 4901_ $$aBuilding Progressive Alternatives 001456142 5050_ $$aCover -- 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. 001456142 5058_ $$aNon-governmental organizations -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- 4 Is European social regulation a thing of the past? -- The patchy rise of social issues in the EU's primary law -- A gradual build up in the treaties -- The advent of EU-wide fundamental social rights? -- The laborious extension of social regulation through legislation -- Free movement and labour law -- Health -- The key role of case law -- The codification of case law through legislation -- Strengthening legislation through case law -- From extending to curtailing social rights? -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- 5 Does liberalization undermine social cohesion? -- The freedom to provide services and social dumping -- From attempts to strike the balance between market freedom and labour law … -- … To a pro-market offensive -- And back -- The marketization of welfare -- From public service to competitive markets -- Liberalizing welfare services through sectoral directives -- Limiting public financing via the control of state aid -- The opening up of welfare states -- The rampant liberalization of healthcare -- The access of non-nationals to social benefits: a limited right -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- 6 Does the European social dialogue really protect European workers? -- The labour movement and the EU: a complicated relationship -- Trade unions between Europeanism and social critique in the early days -- The rise and fall of the European social dialogue -- The Great Recession and the further weakening of neo-corporatism -- The European social dialogue in practice: a toothless bite? -- An awkward delegation of legislative powers -- The patchy implementation of autonomous agreements -- The sectoral European social dialogue -- European works councils. 001456142 5058_ $$aThe trade unions' role beyond the social dialogue: vox clamantis in deserto? -- Institutionalized forms of participation -- Advocacy and protest -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- 7 Does soft coordination support welfare states? -- A new economic and governance philosophy for welfare state modernization -- The European Employment Strategy and the turn to "activation" -- The Lisbon Strategy as an ambiguous modernization project -- The OMC: a problematic soft touch in EU governance -- The European Semester: the rise of a Leviathan from one crisis to another? -- Social policy subsumed by economic policy -- Political schizophrenia between austerity and social investment -- The European Semester in flux in the era of resilience and recovery -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- 8 Is redistribution unconditional? -- From regional convergence to investment and resilience -- Economic transformations and elusive convergence -- From regional policy to employment policy -- Redistribution in times of crises -- Planning redistribution through multi-level governance -- Budgetary programming and broad operational principles -- A bureaucratic partnership between multiple authorities -- Does it work? -- The rise of conditionality, between bureaucracy and politics -- Endogenous conditionality: improving policy implementation -- Exogenous conditionality: using the funds as a stick -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- 9 Is the EU fit for the social challenges of the twenty-first century? -- Brexit: "taking back control" for greater social cohesion? -- The social roots of Brexit -- Social welfare in the post-Brexit UK -- Towards social dumping? -- EU health policy after Covid-19: between interdependency and sovereignty -- Capacity building as a result of health crises. 001456142 5058_ $$aPolitical resistance to competence creep -- A socially just ecological transition: limited ambitions in the face of great challenges -- New distributional and political conflicts -- Social justice: the blind spot of the European Green Deal? -- Old politics and temptation of greenwashing -- Conclusion -- Further reading -- Questions to debate -- Conclusion: From the social question to the democratic question -- Addressing the European social question through democratization -- Index of CJEU judgments -- References -- Index. 001456142 506__ $$aAccess limited to authorized users. 001456142 520__ $$aThis analysis of EU social policy-making asks whether the EU's efforts contribute to social cohesion or, on the contrary, undermine it, and whether its action in the social realm should be intensified, or curtailed. 001456142 588__ $$aDescription based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources. 001456142 650_0 $$aSocial policy. 001456142 655_0 $$aElectronic books 001456142 77608 $$iPrint version:$$aCrespy, Amandine$$tThe European Social Question$$dNewcastle Upon Tyne : Agenda Publishing,c2022$$z9781788213578 001456142 830_0 $$aBuilding Progressive Alternatives 001456142 852__ $$bebk 001456142 85640 $$3ProQuest Ebook Central Academic Complete $$uhttps://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/usiricelib-ebooks/detail.action?docID=6913814$$zOnline Access 001456142 909CO $$ooai:library.usi.edu:1456142$$pGLOBAL_SET 001456142 980__ $$aBIB 001456142 980__ $$aEBOOK 001456142 982__ $$aEbook 001456142 983__ $$aOnline