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The Europeanization of welfare: paradigm shifts and social policy reforms

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dc.creator Moreno, Luis
dc.creator Palier, Bruno
dc.date 2007-10-23T14:16:21Z
dc.date 2007-10-23T14:16:21Z
dc.date 2005-04-23
dc.date.accessioned 2017-01-31T00:57:32Z
dc.date.available 2017-01-31T00:57:32Z
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10261/1602
dc.identifier.uri http://dspace.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10261/1602
dc.description Paper presented at the WRAMSOC Conference, 23-25 April, 2004, Berlin. Published in: P. Taylor-Gooby (ed.), Ideas and Welfare State Reform in Western Europe, 145-175, Basingstoke/Nueva York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005
dc.description The process of Europeanization implies a confluence of resources and outputs by the EU member states. This is mainly due to both structural economic harmonisation and institutional system-building. This paper deals with welfare developments in the European social model in contemporary times. After identifying major changes affecting European countries both functionally and territorially, EU initiatives in social policy-making are reviewed. New policies aimed at co-ordinating employment and social policies at the European level (OMC) have tried to offer perspectives for reconciling the dichotomies between the economic and the social and the national and the European. Hence, while a paradigm shift in macro-economic policies has allowed for monetary centralisation and a growing matching of EU internal 'open' markets, the quest for the decentralisation of welfare programmes has also aimed at meeting demands for territorial subsidiarity. Reforms related to the emergence of new social risks (NSR) may provide EU institutions with initiatives for making social policy reforms coherent with the new economic policy orientations, while also respecting national diversity. Speculative observations on whether there is convergence in social policy paradigms in European countries are carried out in the conclusion of the paper.
dc.description Spanish Secretary of State for Education and Universities (PR2002-0200)
dc.description Peer reviewed
dc.language eng
dc.relation DT 04-05
dc.rights openAccess
dc.subject Europeanization
dc.subject Economic harmonisation
dc.subject Welfare State
dc.subject Social policies
dc.subject European Social Model
dc.title The Europeanization of welfare: paradigm shifts and social policy reforms
dc.type Documento de trabajo


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