Maurizio Ferrera
Biographic Data
| ID | 3955926 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Maurizio Ferrera |
| GIVEN NAMES | Maurizio |
| FAMILY NAME | Ferrera |
| SIGNATURE | FERRERA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Milan |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0869-2593 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 69 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1357 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 67 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 15 |
EU political structuring during the ‘social turn’ (2014–2024)
The article examines the political underpinnings of the European Union’s “social turn” between 2014 and 2024. Taking stock of the literature indicating the importance of transnational coalitions of interest mobilising for a stronger Social Europe, the article builds on the concept of “political structuring” developed by state formation theories and argues that the increase in social policy production was accompanied by the development of new form…
A Very European Way Out: Polity Maintenance and the Design of Article 50
Multilevel polities do not typically facilitate secession, so why did the European Union adopt Article 50? Revisiting formative debates from the 2003 Convention on the Future of Europe, we combine archival research with an original dataset of delegate debates over two levels: the existence and procedural operation of an exit article. This reveals essential new detail on the genealogy of Article 50. We locate this institutional innovation within a…
Social justice for freedom seekers – Sartori and the concept of equality
In Democratic Theory (1962), Sartori argued that the key challenge for liberal-democratic regimes is to reconcile liberty and equality. However, his focus was primarily on the concept of liberty. In the Theory of Democracy Revisited (1987a), he elaborated a richer conception of equality, taking into account the thriving Anglo-Saxon debate. Sartori made two main contributions to this debate. First, he provided a clear conceptual framework for iden…
Politics and Social Visions: Ideology, Conflict, and Solidarity in the EU
During the 2010s the European Union entered into an existential predicament. The Euro crisis triggered a sharp conflict between a frugal North and a solidaristic South. The refugee crisis pitted the sovereigntist view of most Central and Eastern member states against the ‘burden sharing’ view of the others. Brexit sealed the victory of Euroscepticism. Divides intensified within the Left camp regarding the very desirability of a Social Europe. How…
Politics, History and Logic in Max Weber
The article illustrates the different meanings of the term “logic” in Weber's work and then proceeds to discuss his approach to the explanation of historical events and in particular to counterfactual analysis. Weber's epistemology is first situated within the neo-Kantian debates of his time as well as legal positivism and historical jurisprudence. The article then focuses on this author's conception of science as a value sphere, on the aims and …
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic pushed the European Union (EU) to centralize several public health functions. With the European Health Union (EHU) initiative, four reforms have been adopted to strengthen the EU’s health security framework: the extension of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s mandates, the creation of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, a…
Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade
The EU is still fragile after its long decade of crises since 2008, and its durability remains an open question. New capacities were created during this time. But it is not clear how robust they are and whether developing them further will encounter insurmountable obstacles, including resentment by citizens. Over time, tensions and disagreements unleashed three foundational conflicts: conflicts over sovereignty (who decides), solidarity (who gets…
Social citizenship as a marble cake: The changing pattern of right production and the role of the EU
The launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights has reinvigorated the debate on the role that the European Union can exercise in the sphere of subjective rights. Such debate has traditionally focused on the limits of the current social acquis, considered unable to create fully-fledged European social citizenship, that ultimately remains limited to the right to reside and freely move within the EU and enjoy social rights as nationals. Conversel…
Introduction: Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union
This introductory article to the Special Issue Marshall in Brussels? A new perspective on social citizenship and the European Union first argues that there is a need for a novel systematic framework that captures the increasingly complex web of relationships between the European level and the national and local levels in the creation and implementation of social rights. It then summarizes the contributions of the articles included in the Special …
The European Union and cross-national solidarity: Safeguarding ‘togetherness’ in hard times
The EU is a new form of political organisation which can be defined as an “experimental polity”. Its distinctiveness lies in a novel assemblage of the constituent elements of polity (boundaries, binding authority, and bonding ties), and in the constant testing of new combinations of such elelements when facing functional and political challenges. Experimentalism is not always successful and can occasionally trigger off dynamics of polity disrupti…
Round Table. From Lisbon to Porto: Taking stock of developments in EU social policy: Social Europe 2.0? New prospects after the Porto Social Summit
The sequence of crises in the 2010s entirely changed the socio-economic context that had inspired the Lisbon strategy in the year 2000. EU policy veered towards austerity and social policy became an ‘adjustment variable’. Since the mid-2010s, however, a slow process of rebalancing has gained ground, culminating in the adoption of the European Pillar of Social Rights (EPSR) in 2017. The Porto Summit has confirmed the centrality of the Pillar for a…
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the Covid-19 crisis
This article investigates the ‘conflict parabola’ of the negotiations between EU member states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis reopened the foundational controversy over cross-national solidarity under economic adversities. After a peak of conflict in March–April 2020, the political climate gradually shifted from antagonism to appeasement, creating the conditions necessary for the adoption of the Next Generation EU plan. Building on the …
Mass democracy, the welfare state and European integration: A neo-Weberian analysis
Cross‐National Solidarity and Political Sustainability in the EU after the Crisis
The recent economic shocks have severely tested the EU's political sustainability. The deep‐rooted and unending succession of existential crises demonstrates the sharp misalignment between the high degree of integration reached by the EU, its authority structure, and the absence of solidarity to sustain this structure. The contribution unfolds as follows: first, we claim that the Union has become a complex adaptive system and that attempts to res…
Italy
Wars have had a clearly recognizable impact on Italy’s social policy since unification. The independence and early colonial wars prompted the introduction of veteran benefits and other forms of state compensation. The two world wars marked key turning points, creating the conditions for introducing compulsory social insurance and then extending its scope and coverage. The pronatalist policies introduced by Fascism were in their turn closely linke…
Disproved or vindicated? Stein Rokkan’s ‘impossibility theorem’ on welfare democracy and European integration
In the mid-1970s, the great Norwegian scholar Stein Rokkan argued that the consolidation of the national welfare state was going to set definite limits to European integration. While the impetuous strengthening of the latter – from Maastricht to Lisbon – has largely disproved Rokkan’s factual expectations, developments during the last decade seem to have vindicated the theoretical insights which underpinned his original argument. If appropriately…
Worker mobility under attack? Explaining labour market chauvinism in the EU
The aim of this paper is to investigate citizen views on the free movement of workers within the European Union (EU). We are interested in how situational and relational factors affect labour market chauvinist attitudes. Drawing on the threat theory, we advance new hypotheses on the role of intertemporal relative deprivation in amplifying chauvinist inclinations. From the intergroup contact theory and transnational approaches, we borrow insights …
Objectivity, Political Order, and Responsibility in Max Weber’s Thought
Weber’s conception of politics has long been interpreted in relativistic and “agonistic” terms. Such interpretations neglect Weber’s notion of “objectivity” as well as the complex links between politics as “community,” on the one hand, and as “value sphere,” on the other. Seen against this backdrop, Berufpolitik becomes a balancing act in which the pursuit of subjective values is objectively constrained not only by the ethic of responsibility, bu…
The European Social Union: A Missing but Necessary ‘Political Good’
The Stein Rokkan Lecture 2016 Mission impossible? Reconciling economic and social Europe after the euro crisis and Brexit
During the crisis, the European Union's ‘social deficit’ has triggered an increasing politicisation of redistributive issues within supranational, transnational and national arenas. Various lines of conflict have taken shape, revolving around who questions (who are ‘we’? – i.e., issues of identity and inclusion/exclusion); what questions (how much redistribution within and across the ‘we’ collectivities) and who decides questions (the locus of au…
Impatient politics and social investment: The EU as ‘policy facilitator
Reorienting the welfare state towards social investment (SI) constitutes a complex and multidimensional challenge of policy recalibration and raises daunting political problems. The temporal mismatch between SI reforms and their returns requires a degree of ‘political patience’ on the side of both current voters and incumbent politicians which is not readily available in contemporary democracies. After reviewing recent debates about the policy an…
Resemblances that matter: Lessons from the comparison between Southern Europe and East Asia
Southern Europe and East Asia are two distinct groups of nations which share a number of striking family resemblances warranting a close investigation. Such resemblances form a relatively coherent set best captured through the concepts of familialism and familial welfare state. A cross-regional comparison of Italy, Japan, Spain and Korea leads to interesting results in both descriptive and explanatory terms, highlighting the role played by cultur…
Social Europe and its Components in the Midst of the Crisis: A Conclusion
The article starts by identifying the main institutional components of the (elusive) concept of Social Europe: the ‘National Social Spaces’, i.e. the social protection systems of the member states; the ‘EU Social Citizenship Space’, i.e. the coordination regime that allows all EU nationals to access the social benefits of other member states when they exercise free movement; the ‘Regional Social Spaces’, i.e. sub-national and/or trans-regional so…
Ideology, Parties and Social Politics in Europe
This article aims at ‘bringing ideology back in’ for the analysis of party politics and, more specifically, for the discussion of the delicate dyad ‘responsiveness vs. responsibility’. The article starts with an analytical discussion on the concept of ideology and on how to study its adaptation and change. It then reviews the ideological shifts that have characterised welfare state discourse and politics since the 1980s: first, the neoliberal tur…
Solidarity in Europe after the Crisis
The 'Southern Model' of Welfare in Social Europe
This article tries to identify some common traits of the welfare states of Italy, Spain, Por tugal and Greece, with special attention to in stitutional and political aspects
Home Ownership and the Welfare State: Is Southern Europe Different
This article starts from the hypothesis that private expenditure on home ownership and public expenditure on aged pensions represent alternative and, to some extent, mutually exclusive mechanisms of life-time saving for old age. The paper identifies Greece, Italy and, to a lesser degree, Spain as being amongst the only advanced nations in which home ownership is extensive and social insurance age pensions extremely generous. The paper goes on to …
Walking the road together? EU polity maintenance during the Covid-19 crisis
This article investigates the ‘conflict parabola’ of the negotiations between EU member states during the COVID-19 pandemic. The crisis reopened the foundational controversy over cross-national solidarity under economic adversities. After a peak of conflict in March–April 2020, the political climate gradually shifted from antagonism to appeasement, creating the conditions necessary for the adoption of the Next Generation EU plan. Building on the …
Maintaining the EU’s compound polity during the long crisis decade
The EU is still fragile after its long decade of crises since 2008, and its durability remains an open question. New capacities were created during this time. But it is not clear how robust they are and whether developing them further will encounter insurmountable obstacles, including resentment by citizens. Over time, tensions and disagreements unleashed three foundational conflicts: conflicts over sovereignty (who decides), solidarity (who gets…
The Stein Rokkan Lecture 2016 Mission impossible? Reconciling economic and social Europe after the euro crisis and Brexit
During the crisis, the European Union's ‘social deficit’ has triggered an increasing politicisation of redistributive issues within supranational, transnational and national arenas. Various lines of conflict have taken shape, revolving around who questions (who are ‘we’? – i.e., issues of identity and inclusion/exclusion); what questions (how much redistribution within and across the ‘we’ collectivities) and who decides questions (the locus of au…
Recasting European welfare states: An introduction
The European Welfare State: Golden Achievements, Silver Prospects
For the welfare state the last 30 years have witnessed a turbulent transition from the ‘Golden Age’ of expansion to a ‘Silver Age’ of permanent austerity. This shift has been the result of external pressures and of internal transformations of domestic economies and social structures. Permanent austerity has entailed incisive institutional adaptations and has been accompanied by a ‘new politics’, centred on a plurality of ‘blame avoidance’ strateg…
Cross‐National Solidarity and Political Sustainability in the EU after the Crisis
The recent economic shocks have severely tested the EU's political sustainability. The deep‐rooted and unending succession of existential crises demonstrates the sharp misalignment between the high degree of integration reached by the EU, its authority structure, and the absence of solidarity to sustain this structure. The contribution unfolds as follows: first, we claim that the Union has become a complex adaptive system and that attempts to res…
Open coordination against poverty: The new EU `social inclusion process
Until the mid 1990s, the notion of Social Europe was primarily associated with the introduction of binding supranational rules aimed at safeguarding and possibly upgrading the social protection systems of the Member States. The political and institutional obstacles to such kind of rules were well known in practice and well understood in theory - especially in the wake of the negative vs. positive integration debate. But 'hard law' seemed to be th…
IL Modello SUD-Europeo Dl Welfare STATE
Un welfare del Sud?Con il ritorno della democrazia e l'ingresso nella Comunità europea di Spagna, Portogallo e Grecia la visibilità dell'Europa meridionale è costantemente cresciuta nel corso dell'ultimo decennio. L'approssimarsi delle scadenze previste per l'Unione economico-monetaria e il dibattito sulla cosiddetta «dimensione sociale» hanno a loro volta attirato l'attenzione deipolicy makersnazionali e sovranazionali verso gli specifici proble…
The JCMS Annual Lecture: National Welfare States and European Integration: In Search of a ‘Virtuous Nesting
In recent years the EU has been witnessing a growing tension between the logic of ‘closure’, which underpins national welfare systems, and the logic of ‘opening’, which guides the integration process, especially in the economic sphere. Are there ways of mitigating such tension, in order to avoid negative consequences in terms of performance and legitimacy? The article outlines a strategy of institutional reconciliation between the two logics, bas…
European Integration and National Social Citizenship: Changing Boundaries, New Structuring
The deepening of European integration has weakened the traditional coercive monopoly of the state on actors and resources that are crucial for the stability of redistributive institutions. The article explores these issues adopting a “state-building” perspective and drawing on Stein Rokkan's pioneering insights on boundary building and internal structuring. The first part of the article briefly presents the theoretical perspective. The second par…
Worker mobility under attack? Explaining labour market chauvinism in the EU
The aim of this paper is to investigate citizen views on the free movement of workers within the European Union (EU). We are interested in how situational and relational factors affect labour market chauvinist attitudes. Drawing on the threat theory, we advance new hypotheses on the role of intertemporal relative deprivation in amplifying chauvinist inclinations. From the intergroup contact theory and transnational approaches, we borrow insights …
Impatient politics and social investment: The EU as ‘policy facilitator
Reorienting the welfare state towards social investment (SI) constitutes a complex and multidimensional challenge of policy recalibration and raises daunting political problems. The temporal mismatch between SI reforms and their returns requires a degree of ‘political patience’ on the side of both current voters and incumbent politicians which is not readily available in contemporary democracies. After reviewing recent debates about the policy an…
Building a sustainable welfare state
The uncertain future of the Italian welfare state
The Italian model of welfare is characterised by numerous imbalances, including an uneven distribution of protection and costs, and a chronic deficit between contributions and outlays. There is also a widespread abuse of the rules governing contributions and benefits and a persisting inefficiency in public services. The failure to resolve this crisis has contributed to the erosion of Italy's social and political consensus, producing a 'tax‐welfar…
Social Europe and its Components in the Midst of the Crisis: A Conclusion
The article starts by identifying the main institutional components of the (elusive) concept of Social Europe: the ‘National Social Spaces’, i.e. the social protection systems of the member states; the ‘EU Social Citizenship Space’, i.e. the coordination regime that allows all EU nationals to access the social benefits of other member states when they exercise free movement; the ‘Regional Social Spaces’, i.e. sub-national and/or trans-regional so…
Mending Nets in the South: Anti‐poverty Policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain
The marginal role of social assistance and the absence of minimum income programmes have long been thought to constitute defining characteristics of the southern European model of welfare. Nevertheless, over the 1990s significant innovations in this field have taken place. The paper aims to contribute to the analysis of recent developments by critically examining the experience of anti‐poverty policies in Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain. It is …
Reforms guided by consensus: The welfare state in the Italian transition
2000). Reforms guided by consensus: The welfare state in the Italian transition. West European Politics: Vol. 23, Recasting European Welfare States, pp. 187-208
Solidarity in Europe after the Crisis
Recasting European Welfare States for the 21st Century
This article places European welfare states squarely in today's European integration context and looks optimistically at social policy perspectives ‘top down’ from the European level. It has the needs of European policy makers in mind, and thus their interests in optimal policy mixes, lessons from national experiences and in a new institutional architecture that links EU member states more effectively into All-European corridors of reform efforts…
The future of the European “social model” in the global economy
This article examines the prospects for European welfare states in the context of globalization. It begins with a critical review of the globalization arguments. While there is some evidence that external constraints make life harder for policymakers seeking positive‐sum outcomes, it is the combination of national debt and spending limits, plus domestic tax resistance, that really count in making expenditure‐based social and employment policies m…
Social citizenship as a marble cake: The changing pattern of right production and the role of the EU
The launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights has reinvigorated the debate on the role that the European Union can exercise in the sphere of subjective rights. Such debate has traditionally focused on the limits of the current social acquis, considered unable to create fully-fledged European social citizenship, that ultimately remains limited to the right to reside and freely move within the EU and enjoy social rights as nationals. Conversel…
Ideology, Parties and Social Politics in Europe
This article aims at ‘bringing ideology back in’ for the analysis of party politics and, more specifically, for the discussion of the delicate dyad ‘responsiveness vs. responsibility’. The article starts with an analytical discussion on the concept of ideology and on how to study its adaptation and change. It then reviews the ideological shifts that have characterised welfare state discourse and politics since the 1980s: first, the neoliberal tur…
Integration through Expansive Unification: The Birth of the European Health Union
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic pushed the European Union (EU) to centralize several public health functions. With the European Health Union (EHU) initiative, four reforms have been adopted to strengthen the EU’s health security framework: the extension of the European Medicines Agency and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control’s mandates, the creation of the Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Authority, a…
Crescita Da Domanda O Crescita Da Offerta: Un'analisi Delle Spese Sociali in Italia
IntroduzioneL'enorme espansione delle politiche di benessere è una delle caratteristiche più salienti dello sviluppo delle società euro-pee del dopoguerra. Nel trentennio che va dal 1945 al 1975 l'incidenza relativa delle spese per la sicurezza sociale sul prodotto interno lordo è più che raddoppiata (in media europea), passando da circa il 9% a più del 19%: e tale cifra salirebbe di almeno 6 o 7 punti se, come è corretto, si contassero tra le sp…
Schumpeter E Il Dibattito Sulla Teoria «competitiva» Della Democrazia
IntroduzioneInsieme a Michels, Mosca e Pareto, Schumpeter è comunemente annoverato tra i pensatori che più hanno contribuito, nel nostro secolo, ad approfondire ed articolare il concetto di «democrazia» e, più in particolare, il nesso che lega in un sistema democratico le élites governanti ai propri governati. La quarta parte diCapitalismo, Socialismo e Democraziaè una lettura obbligata per ogni studioso del regime democratico, non importa se mos…
Giovanna Guidorossi, Gli italiani e la politica, Milano, Franco Angeli, 1984
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Rodolfo Lewanski, Il controllo degli inquinamenti delle acque: L'attuazione di una politica pubblica, Milano, Giuffrè, 1986
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Comparazione E Welfare State: Un Caso Di Successo
IntroduzioneRiguardando l'abbondante letteratura dell'ultimo trentennio in tema di welfare state, non si può fare a meno di riconoscere che questo settore d'indagine ha dato luogo ad un progresso conoscitivo davvero notevole, soprattutto per quanto riguarda la sequenza causale che ha originato le politiche sociali verso la fine del secolo scorso e ne ha successivamente promosso una continua e sostenuta espansione. Per avere una conferma immediata…
I Mondi Del Benessere: Una Nuova Classificazione Dei Welfare States
IntroduzioneNel corso dell'ultimo decennio la ricerca comparata sul welfare state ha progressivamente abbandonato l'approccio quantitativo, imperniato sul trattamento statistico di dati aggregati, per indirizzarsi con sempre maggiore convinzione verso l'analisi qualitativa, volta all'esplorazione ravvicinata di singole (o gruppi di) esperienze nazionali concrete, osservate nella loro evoluzione storica. La letteratura metodologica ha parlato in p…
Italian political science and public policies: A late but promising encounter
Who Will Take Care of the Worker? The Establishment of “Kupat Holim,” the Workers' Sick Fund in Israel, 1911–1921
Journal Article Who Will Take Care of the Worker? The Establishment of “Kupat Holim,” the Workers' Sick Fund in Israel, 1911–1921 Get access SHIFRA SHVARTS SHIFRA SHVARTS Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 50, Issue 4, October 1995, Pages 525–556, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhmas/50.4.525 Published: 01 October 1995
The 'Southern Model' of Welfare in Social Europe
This article tries to identify some common traits of the welfare states of Italy, Spain, Por tugal and Greece, with special attention to in stitutional and political aspects
Home Ownership and the Welfare State: Is Southern Europe Different
This article starts from the hypothesis that private expenditure on home ownership and public expenditure on aged pensions represent alternative and, to some extent, mutually exclusive mechanisms of life-time saving for old age. The paper identifies Greece, Italy and, to a lesser degree, Spain as being amongst the only advanced nations in which home ownership is extensive and social insurance age pensions extremely generous. The paper goes on to …
IL Modello SUD-Europeo Dl Welfare STATE
Un welfare del Sud?Con il ritorno della democrazia e l'ingresso nella Comunità europea di Spagna, Portogallo e Grecia la visibilità dell'Europa meridionale è costantemente cresciuta nel corso dell'ultimo decennio. L'approssimarsi delle scadenze previste per l'Unione economico-monetaria e il dibattito sulla cosiddetta «dimensione sociale» hanno a loro volta attirato l'attenzione deipolicy makersnazionali e sovranazionali verso gli specifici proble…
Modèles de solidarité, divergences, convergences: Perspectives pour l'Europe
Sous la pression de la dynamique d'intégration communautaire, les systèmes de protection sociale européens ont connu un processus de transformation institutionnelle graduelle, inspiré par des principes et des critères en grande partie similaires. Ce processus peut conduire potentiellement à une convergence progressive, sur le plan qualitatif, des différents systèmes. L'activisme de la communauté epistémique internationale et la promptitude des in…
The uncertain future of the Italian welfare state
The Italian model of welfare is characterised by numerous imbalances, including an uneven distribution of protection and costs, and a chronic deficit between contributions and outlays. There is also a widespread abuse of the rules governing contributions and benefits and a persisting inefficiency in public services. The failure to resolve this crisis has contributed to the erosion of Italy's social and political consensus, producing a 'tax‐welfar…
The Four ‘Social Europes’: Between Universalism and Selectivity
In recent years the theme of 'convergence' of the social policies of western countries has gained a pre-eminent position in political and academic debates. It is not difficult to understand the reasons for this new interest. The literature on the crisis of welfare has amply revealed the similarity of the challenges that each country faces. These challenges are of an endogenous nature (like demographic changes or changes in the labour market), as …
Un Grazie a Cotta Un Augurio a Ferrera
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Recasting European Welfare States for the 21st Century
This article places European welfare states squarely in today's European integration context and looks optimistically at social policy perspectives ‘top down’ from the European level. It has the needs of European policy makers in mind, and thus their interests in optimal policy mixes, lessons from national experiences and in a new institutional architecture that links EU member states more effectively into All-European corridors of reform efforts…
Recasting European welfare states: An introduction
Reforms guided by consensus: The welfare state in the Italian transition
2000). Reforms guided by consensus: The welfare state in the Italian transition. West European Politics: Vol. 23, Recasting European Welfare States, pp. 187-208
Building a sustainable welfare state
The future of the European “social model” in the global economy
This article examines the prospects for European welfare states in the context of globalization. It begins with a critical review of the globalization arguments. While there is some evidence that external constraints make life harder for policymakers seeking positive‐sum outcomes, it is the combination of national debt and spending limits, plus domestic tax resistance, that really count in making expenditure‐based social and employment policies m…
Open coordination against poverty: The new EU `social inclusion process
Until the mid 1990s, the notion of Social Europe was primarily associated with the introduction of binding supranational rules aimed at safeguarding and possibly upgrading the social protection systems of the Member States. The political and institutional obstacles to such kind of rules were well known in practice and well understood in theory - especially in the wake of the negative vs. positive integration debate. But 'hard law' seemed to be th…
Intégration européenne et citoyenneté nationale et sociale: Une analyse dans la perspective de Stein Rokkan
Maurizio Ferrera, Intégration européenne et citoyenneté nationale et sociale: Une analyse dans la perspective de Stein Rokkan, Revue française de sociologie, Vol. 43, No. 2, L'Europe sociale en perspectives (Apr. - Jun., 2002), pp. 277-306
Recasting European Welfare States
The chapter presents, in synthesis form, some key elements of what is now understood about welfare regimes, their respective pathologies of development, their current paths of reform, and the challenges that still confront them. The first section examines welfare state performance thematically, focusing on employment, the scale and shape of social security systems, and distributive outcomes. The second section takes Europe’s four welfare regimes …
Reconstructing the welfare state in Southern Europe
The images of French routiers, German miners or Belgian automobile-workers striking to preserve their jobs and social guarantees are likely to be remembered as the most visible symbols of that struggle around welfare reform which has been dominating Europe’s political landscape in the course of the last decade. Unfortunately the international media have been paying much less attention to other, less vocal protagonists of the same scene, somewhat …
Recalibrating Europe’s Welfare Regimes
In a well-known series of volumes on European welfare states published in the mid-1980s, Peter Flora coined the metaphor of’growth to limits’ (Flora 1986). This notion contained an institutional diagnosis of the social policy predicament which afflicted the Old Continent: the ambitious programs introduced during the trente glorieuses had come to (quasi–full) maturation and were therefore reaching their maximum extension in terms of coverage and g…
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