Sven Schreur
Biographic Data
| ID | 4159684 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sven Schreur |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sven |
| FAMILY NAME | Schreur |
| SIGNATURE | SCHREUR S |
| AFFILIATIONS | European University Institute |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2602-7004 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Overcoming the subsidiarity reflex? Sweden, the Netherlands and the making of social Europe
Since the launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017, the EU has witnessed a marked revival in social policy-making. Existing research highlights the role of institutional entrepreneurs and advocacy coalitions, but tends to overlook the dynamics within Member States themselves. This paper examines how and why support for EU social policy has evolved among two long-standing sceptics: Sweden and the Netherlands. In the 2000s and early 2…
Regulating Uncharted Waters
In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member states into sharply opposed camps. In a historic moment, a last‐minute deal was passed – without support …
Re‐Embedding European Market Society? EU Labour Regulation and the ‘Double Countermovement’ to Market‐Making Integration
Scholars who have examined European integration from a neo‐Polanyian perspective have long been sceptical about the opportunities for a ‘countermovement’ against the EU's market‐making bias. However, as part of a broader ‘social turn’, recent years have seen the adoption of EU legislation to promote fair and decent working conditions. Based on a contextual analysis of four key labour‐law directives, I argue that these amount to a meaningful ‘re‐e…
Usages of ‘soft’ EU labour law
Transposition of the much-debated EU Directive on adequate minimum wages, adopted in October 2022, was due by November 2024. This article examines how the Minimum Wage Directive has (re-)shaped minimum wage and industrial relations policies in Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands in the period immediately after its adoption. Distinguishing between different ‘usages’ of EU policy, I find that decision-makers and stakeholders have employed …
Converging on social investment? Policy entrepreneurship, learning and the social dimension of post-pandemic EU economic governance
Introduction
Social Europe and its limits
Published online: 26 May 2025
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive
Published online: 06 April 2024
Scharpf revisited
Published online: 28 April 2023
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration
Despite growing attention to income inequality in debates about European integration, our understanding of its effect on European Union support remains limited. Using European Social Survey data from 2002 to 2020, we analyse how income inequality and pro-redistribution attitudes shape diffuse and specific forms of support for the European Union. We find no direct effect of country-level income inequality, while individual support for redistributi…
Those were the days
In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties – in particular, those on the radical right – as the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that la…
Scharpf revisited
Published online: 28 April 2023
Those were the days
In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties – in particular, those on the radical right – as the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that la…
Social Europe and its limits
Published online: 26 May 2025
Re‐Embedding European Market Society? EU Labour Regulation and the ‘Double Countermovement’ to Market‐Making Integration
Scholars who have examined European integration from a neo‐Polanyian perspective have long been sceptical about the opportunities for a ‘countermovement’ against the EU's market‐making bias. However, as part of a broader ‘social turn’, recent years have seen the adoption of EU legislation to promote fair and decent working conditions. Based on a contextual analysis of four key labour‐law directives, I argue that these amount to a meaningful ‘re‐e…
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive
Published online: 06 April 2024
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration
Despite growing attention to income inequality in debates about European integration, our understanding of its effect on European Union support remains limited. Using European Social Survey data from 2002 to 2020, we analyse how income inequality and pro-redistribution attitudes shape diffuse and specific forms of support for the European Union. We find no direct effect of country-level income inequality, while individual support for redistributi…
Regulating Uncharted Waters
In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member states into sharply opposed camps. In a historic moment, a last‐minute deal was passed – without support …
Those were the days
In academia and beyond, it has become commonplace to regard populist parties – in particular, those on the radical right – as the archetypical embodiment of politics of nostalgia. Demand-side studies suggest that nostalgic sentiments motivate populist radical-right (PRR) voting and welfare chauvinist attitudes, yet systematic analyses of the nostalgic discourse that these parties promote have not been forthcoming. This paper seeks to fill that la…
Scharpf revisited
Published online: 28 April 2023
Unequal perspectives? Income inequality as a benchmark for support for European integration
Despite growing attention to income inequality in debates about European integration, our understanding of its effect on European Union support remains limited. Using European Social Survey data from 2002 to 2020, we analyse how income inequality and pro-redistribution attitudes shape diffuse and specific forms of support for the European Union. We find no direct effect of country-level income inequality, while individual support for redistributi…
Usages of ‘soft’ EU labour law
Transposition of the much-debated EU Directive on adequate minimum wages, adopted in October 2022, was due by November 2024. This article examines how the Minimum Wage Directive has (re-)shaped minimum wage and industrial relations policies in Bulgaria, Ireland, Italy and the Netherlands in the period immediately after its adoption. Distinguishing between different ‘usages’ of EU policy, I find that decision-makers and stakeholders have employed …
Converging on social investment? Policy entrepreneurship, learning and the social dimension of post-pandemic EU economic governance
Introduction
Social Europe and its limits
Published online: 26 May 2025
Workers of all member states unite? Europeanising the power resources approach via the Minimum Wage Directive
Published online: 06 April 2024
Overcoming the subsidiarity reflex? Sweden, the Netherlands and the making of social Europe
Since the launch of the European Pillar of Social Rights in 2017, the EU has witnessed a marked revival in social policy-making. Existing research highlights the role of institutional entrepreneurs and advocacy coalitions, but tends to overlook the dynamics within Member States themselves. This paper examines how and why support for EU social policy has evolved among two long-standing sceptics: Sweden and the Netherlands. In the 2000s and early 2…
Regulating Uncharted Waters
In 2024, the EU adopted a much‐debated directive on improving working conditions in platform work, which aims to facilitate the correct classification of people performing platform work and regulates the use of algorithmic management. The initiative attracted intense lobbying from digital platforms and trade unions, whilst dividing the member states into sharply opposed camps. In a historic moment, a last‐minute deal was passed – without support …
Re‐Embedding European Market Society? EU Labour Regulation and the ‘Double Countermovement’ to Market‐Making Integration
Scholars who have examined European integration from a neo‐Polanyian perspective have long been sceptical about the opportunities for a ‘countermovement’ against the EU's market‐making bias. However, as part of a broader ‘social turn’, recent years have seen the adoption of EU legislation to promote fair and decent working conditions. Based on a contextual analysis of four key labour‐law directives, I argue that these amount to a meaningful ‘re‐e…
European Union Policy and Governance (8 works) · Economics (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (6 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (5 works) · Politics (5 works) · European union (4 works) · Directive (3 works) · Economic system (3 works) · Law (3 works)