European social policy: Progressive regression

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European social policy changed with the evolution of European and global capitalism, the scope and shape of European-level international institutions, the size and heterogeneity of "Europe" as a polity, and the politics of the European national welfare state. The paper outlines the long-term trajectory of European social policy, from the intended absorption of national welfare states into one united, federal welfare state to a selective updating of national social policies by European social policies; to multi-level coordination of national systems by special European institutions; to European soft law helping national "modernization" on the "Third Way"; to exposure of national systems to international economic competition as an incentive for "structural reform"; and to subordination of social policy, national and European, to the defense of a common hard currency through fiscal consolidation - from, in other words, federal social democracy to competitive "adjustment" of national social protection and social life to global markets.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: MPIfG Discussion Paper ; No. 18/11

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie
• Subject: Europe ; European integration ; European social policy ; Europa ; europäische Integration ; europäische Sozialpolitik

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Streeck, Wolfgang
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
• (where): Cologne
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/190989
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET