Socializing the European Semester
EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7880751 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jonathan Zeitlin (0000-0003-1655-0448, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Bart Vanhercke (0000-0003-3275-2015, European Social Observatory, Brussels, Belgium) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 149-174 |
| Publication date | 2018-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of European Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1350-1763 • E-ISSN: 1466-4429 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13501763.2017.1363269 |
| OpenAlex | W2752897663 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 144 |
| References cited | 25 |
This contribution analyses how EU social objectives and policy co-ordination have been integrated into the Union’s post-crisis governance architecture. It argues that between 2011 and 2016, there was a partial but progressive ‘socialization’ of the ‘European Semester’ of policy co-ordination, in terms of increasing emphasis on social objectives in its priorities and key messages, including the Country-Specific Recommendations; intensified social monitoring and review of national reforms; and an enhanced decision-making role for EU social and employment actors. In explaining these developments, the contribution highlights the contribution of strategic agency, reflexive learning and creative adaptation by social and employment actors to the new institutional conditions of the Semester, building on recent theoretical work on ‘actor-centred constructivism’ and the ‘usages of Europe
Agency (philosophy · Corporate governance · Economic policy · Economics · European union · Management · Political economy · Political science · Public relations · Reflexivity · Social dialogue · Social science · Socialization · Sociology · European Union Policy and Governance · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
Shifting ground to hold firm? EMU rebalancing and the changing politics of euro support
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From the European Semester to the Recovery and Resilience Facility
The emergence of a New European Labour Policy regime
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Politics and Social Visions
Health, federalism and the European Union
Towards a Socialization of the EU's New Economic Governance Regime? EU Labour Policy Interventions in Germany, Ireland, Italy and Romania (2009–2019)
The recovery and resilience facility as a transition stabiliser
The EU social turn in words and deeds
Social dialogue in defining the European Union economic and social strategy
Negotiating the Common Agricultural Policy
Governing through consensus? The European Semester, soft power and education governance in the EU
Forming a supranational boundary-spanning policy regime – European intersectoral coordination in education and employment
The European Trade Union Federations within the European polity
Navigating cross-border labour mobility and employment security in European shipbuilding
Poverty and social exclusion in the EU
Round Table. From Lisbon to Porto
Round Table. From Lisbon to Porto
The revival of Social Europe
Greek Views of the 2015 Bailout Agreement
Stabilisierung statt Paradigmenwechsel
Cross-border healthcare collaborations in Europe (2007–2017)
Is the EU steering national social and health policy making? A case-study on Finland's national reform
A failed insurrection? An institutional analysis of the creation of the European Union Social Convergence Framework
Politicizing poverty indicators
EU political structuring during the ‘social turn’ (2014–2024)
L’euro-isation de l’Europe
The field of European economic governance and austerity policies
The European Commission’s ideas on integrating underrepresented groups into the labour market
Gender blindness in the ‘Next Generation European Union’ funds
Connecting internal and external dynamics in European intersectoral policy coordination – the case of education and employment
Strengthening the European Semester to Achieve Economies of Wellbeing
Structure of the population or economic conditions? Determinants of spending on social protection in the European Union
Shaping the prospects for adequate pensions
The European Semester
Policy Learning and Policy Analysis Within European Union Institutions
Super Mario 2
The Italian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
The Long Road for Vulnerable Jobseekers Transitioning to Green and Socially Sustainable Employment
Public Policy Europeanisation in Response to the Covid‐19 Crisis
Politicised at Home but not in Council
The National Recovery and Resilience Plans
Social Investment Policies in the EU
The EU’s Recovery and Resilience Facility
Why Brexit Will Do Little to Change the Political Contours of the European Social Dimension
The European Commission as a Policy Entrepreneur under the European Semester
NextGenerationEU and the European Semester
Threats of sovereign debt overhang in the EU, the new fiscal rules and the perils of policy drift
When did the austerity era of European crisis management end? On the failure of National competitiveness boards
Measuring Economic Reform Recommendations under the European Semester
The progressive gendering of the European Union’s economic governance architecture
Looking for the ‘Social’ in the European Semester
Socialising the European Semester? The limited influence of Danish social partners on EU policymaking
The European Commission’s entrepreneurship and the social dimension of the European Semester
What “Brussels” means by structural reforms
Enforcing social standards through RRF conditionalities
How does the EU seek to encourage change in national justice systems? A framework of coordinative and coercive Europeanization at work
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Improved soft law implementation with national ownership
Efficiency or compensation? The global economic crisis and the development of the European Union’s social policy
From fear to support? The role of benefit guarantees in EU multilevel welfare governance
Ideational robustness of economic ideas in action
Securing decent incomes at a crossroads
Success in agenda setting through failure in policymaking
The EU’s truth by omission
European Union economic policy on social reproduction – Differentiating between Central-Eastern Europe and the West
Converging on social investment? Policy entrepreneurship, learning and the social dimension of post-pandemic EU economic governance
Beyond ‘responsibility vs. responsiveness’
Integración europea y relaciones laborales. Enfoques teóricos, procesos políticos y resultados institucionales
The European Pillar of Social Rights and the Quest for EU Social Sustainability
Speaking social Europe
Building a European care regime
Beyond the European Semester
The post-socialist neoliberal agenda through the prism of Europeanization in social and labour market policy
Bank supervision between risk reduction and economic renewal
Explaining different usages of policy monitoring in the EU
Crisis and paradigm change in the European semester
Economic and fiscal policy coordination after the crisis
The depoliticisation of education
Beyond the neoliberal paradigm? Images of Social Europe in open method of coordination employment peer reviews
Buffering national welfare states in hard times
From austerity‐conditionality towards a new investment‐led growth strategy
Benchmarking labour competitiveness
Macro‐economic coordination and elusive ownership in the European Union
Benchmarking and the Technicization of Academic Discourse
The Reforms of the Economic and Monetary Union During the Euro Crisis
Can the EU Move ‘Beyond GDP’
European Solidarity Takes the Field
The European Union and cross-national solidarity
Hardening and softening of country-specific recommendations in the European Semester
Dismantling labour markets from above
How the Eurozone disempowers trade unions
Governing the European Union's recovery and resilience facility
Flexicurity in the European Semester
It’s a total no-no
Ownership of national recovery plans
Social Europe and its limits
Political alternatives under European economic governance
Scharpf revisited
Assessing the Open Method of Coordination
Socializing the European Semester? Economic Governance and Social Policy Coordination in Europe 2020
EU Governance of Economic and Social Policies
The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms
Social Policy and the Euro Crisis
Europeanizing Civil Society
EU facing the crisis
Social Europe
The Europeanisation of policy to address poverty under the new economic governance
Using Europe
Inside the black box
A new era of European Integration? Governance of labour market and social policy since the sovereign debt crisis
Europe 2020 and the Fight against Poverty – Beyond Competence Clash, Towards ‘Hybrid’ Governance Solutions
Flexicurity in the European Semester
Enforcing the European Semester
Deciding on the European Semester
Commission Entrepreneurship and the Debasing of Social Europe Before and After the Eurocrisis
Sociological Approaches to the European Union in Times of Turmoil
Cherry-picking external constraints
Sociological Approaches in EU Studies
The Legal and Political Accountability Structure of ‘Post‐Crisis’ EU Economic Governance
| Unique citing works | 144 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 16 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2026 (10) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 143 |