Maurizio Ferrera

The Boundaries of Welfare

European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Solidarity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Chapters 3 and 4 analyse the relationship between domestic welfare state developments and the formation of a supranational European Community between the 1960s and the 2000s, illustrating how the process of European integration has increasingly eroded the social sovereignty of the nation-state. Chapter 5 focuses on new emerging forms of sub-national and trans-national social protection, while Chapter 6 discusses current trends and future perspectives for a re-structuring of social protection at the EU level. While there is no doubt that European integration has significantly altered the boundaries of national welfare, de-stabilizing delicate political and institutional equilibria, the book concludes by offering some suggestions on how a viable system of multi-level social protection could possibly emerge within the new EU wide boundary configuration.

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This timely volume by one of the very best authorities on the EU offers an innovative analysis of the impact of the EU on welfare states at both the national and regional level. Given the EU's increasing influence on welfare states, this major new statement is poised to make an exciting and important contribution to current policy debates.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. Februar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 617g
• ISBN-13: 9780199284665
• ISBN-10: 0199284660
• Artikelnr.: 21787268

Autorenporträt

Maurizio Ferrera, Professor of Social and Labour Market Policy, University of Milan

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: The Structuring of Social Citizenship: A Theoretical Framework
* 2: From Local Assistance to National Social Protection: Welfare State
Building in European Nations
* 3: National Closure During the Golden Age of Welfare Expansion
* 4: Contested Social Sovereignty: Welfare States Meet the EU
* 5: From Welfare States to Welfare Regions
* 6: New Boundaries, New Structuring? On the Future of Social
Protection in the European Union
* References