The European Social Question: Tackling Key Controversies

Amandine Crespy

doi:10.1017/9781788213592

The European Social Question

Tackling Key Controversies

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Amandine Crespy, Université Libre de Bruxelles and Collège d'Europe, Belgium

Publisher:: Agenda Publishing
Online publication date:: December 2023
Print publication year:: 2022
Online ISBN:: 9781788213592
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781788213592

Subjects:: Politics: General Interest, Politics and International Relations
Series:: Building Progressive Alternatives

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Over recent years it has become increasingly clear that the European Union is falling short of its promise to enhance social cohesion across the continent. Welfare state modernization has been at the centre of divisive debates over the redistribution of wealth and imbalances between a wealthy European core and its peripheries. Some see the policies and governance of the EU as part of the problem, others rather as the solution.

This book examines the key issues facing the EU's social policy-making. Each chapter focuses on a single challenge and explores the arguments and considerations that coalesce around it. The book helps students and researchers alike to understand how the EU operates and shapes social policy on multiple levels, and to better assess the EU's role in supporting social cohesion.

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Tackling Key Controversies

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

Acknowledgements
pp vii-viii

Abbreviations and acronyms
pp ix-x

Dedication
pp xi-xii

Introduction: “Social Europe” – irrelevant, catching up or dangerous?
pp 1-12

1 - What is the European social question?
pp 13-28

2 - Is the EU a key player in addressing social issues?
pp 29-44

3 - Are socially minded actors too weak in EU policy-making?
pp 45-70

4 - Is European social regulation a thing of the past?
pp 71-92

5 - Does liberalization undermine social cohesion?
pp 93-112

6 - Does the European social dialogue really protect European workers?
pp 113-134

7 - Does soft coordination support welfare states?
pp 135-162

8 - Is redistribution unconditional?
pp 163-186

9 - Is the EU fit for the social challenges of the twenty-first century?
pp 187-212

Conclusion: from the social question to the democratic question
pp 213-220

Index of CJEU judgments
pp 221-222

References
pp 223-240

Index
pp 241-248

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