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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
About this book
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Reviews
“The Great Recession has had a strong impact on the Eurozone's welfare states. This book provides an effective, empirically grounded assessment of the role played by EU institutions in shaping national reforms and adjustments. Its chapters highlight the strengthening of austerity-oriented supranational constraints and pressures, but unveil at the same time the margins of maneuver retained by the Member States, even in the presence of strong conditionality. In addition to analysing developments since 2008, the authors discuss the present problems challenges and lay out a rich agenda for future research.” (Maurizio Ferrera, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy)
“The editors have succeeded in drawing together a theoretically coherent and incisive set of chapters analysing the way the EU has affected welfare state reforms in the Member States most severely hit by the crisis. A timely contribution for anyone interested in understanding the on-going effects of the crisis and amust read for students and scholars interested in EU policy and in welfare reforms.” (Nathalie Morel, Sciences Po, France)
“This book contributes with in-depth policy analyses of how some of the most crisis stricken European countries have responded to intrusive EU interventions. It demonstrates how EU-level policy is causing divergence among EU Member States, against the fundamental objective of the EU to promote convergence among countries and social cohesion within populations.” (Joakim Palme, Uppsala University, Sweden)
“This volume illustrates the conflict between the Commission’s soft-law promotion of national “social investment” policies and the hard-law requirements of fiscal retrenchment and labor market deregulation imposed on states suffering from, or threatened by the euro crisis. The conflict is obvious in the cases of “program states” like Greece and Portugal. Of particular interest, however, are the chapters dealing with Ireland, Italy and France which suggest that even without intrusive intervention by the Commission similar policies have been self-imposed by governments that are aware of the economic constraints implied by membership in the Monetary Union.” (Fritz W. Scharpf, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany)
“This excellent collection of in-depth studies is indispensable reading for everybody who is interested in how welfare states have been affected by the financial crisis – and few questions can be more relevant to comparative political economists and welfare state researchers.” (Waltraud Schelkle, London School of Economics and Political Science, UK)
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Copenhagen, Denmark
Caroline De La Porte
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School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Elke Heins
About the editors
Elke Heins is Lecturer in Social Policy at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh, UK.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sovereign Debt Crisis, the EU and Welfare State Reform
Editors: Caroline De La Porte, Elke Heins
Series Title: Work and Welfare in Europe
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58179-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-58178-5Published: 22 August 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58179-2Published: 09 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2947-4124
Series E-ISSN: 2947-4132
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXVII, 229
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 6 illustrations in colour
Topics: Politics of the Welfare State, Comparative Social Policy, European Union Politics, Social Policy