Recalibrating Europe's semi-sovereign welfare states

Abstract: "Since the late 1970s, all the developed welfare states of the European Union (EU) have been recasting the basic policy mix on which their national systems of social protection were built after 1945. Intensified global competition, industrial restructuring, budgetary austerity, changing family relations and demographic ageing have thrown into question the once sovereign and stable welfare systems of the Golden Age'. Moreover, domestic issues of work and welfare have more recently become ever more intertwined with processes of European political and economic integration. In this respect, it is fair to say that in the EU we have entered an era of semi-sovereign welfare states. Together, these forces have produced a momentum of system change that goes far beyond the popular notion of welfare state 'retrenchment'. The 'new' welfare edifice suggests a departure from a 'politics against markets' social-protection perspective, towards more of a 'politics with markets', social-investment a

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• Alternative title: Neujustierung Europas halbsouveräner Wohlfahrtsstaaten
• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource, 23 S.
• Language: Englisch
• Notes: Veröffentlichungsversion

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Discussion Papers / Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung, Forschungsschwerpunkt Arbeit, Sozialstruktur und Sozialstaat, Abteilung Arbeitsmarktpolitik und Beschäftigung ; Bd. 2006-103

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft
• Keyword: Europäische Union ; Sozialstaat ; Sozialreform ; EU-Sozialpolitik ; EU-Staaten ; Sozialpolitik ; Sozialstaat ; Sozialstaatsprinzip ; Sozialreform

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (where): Berlin
• (when): 2006
• Creator: Hemerijck, Anton
• Contributor: Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin für Sozialforschung gGmbH

Further information

• URN: urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-113777
• Rights: Open Access unbekannt; Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.