European Welfare State and Supranational Governance of Social Policy (St. Antony's)

✍ Scribed by Ailish Johnson

• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 285
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Ailish Johnson examines national welfare state regimes of EU Member States and the features of the European Union and the International Labour Organization that encourage cooperation and assure outcomes of supranational cooperation better than theories of inter-state bargaining or social dumping would predict. By tracing the development of EU and global social policy from the 1950s to today, she identifies policy leaders, resisters and passive states. She concludes with an analysis of the forms and outputs of supranational social policy and suggests limits of social policy in an enlarged European Union.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 8
List of Tables and Figures......Page 10
List of Abbreviations......Page 12
Acknowledgements......Page 14
Foreword......Page 16
1 European Welfare States and Supranational Governance of Social Policy......Page 18
2 Governance by Law: Health and Safety in the Workplace......Page 45
3 Governance by Collective Bargaining: The Social Dialogue......Page 78
4 Governance by the Open Method of Coordination: The European Employment Strategy......Page 114
5 Global Governance of Social Policy: EU Member States at the International Labour Organization......Page 159
6 Conclusion......Page 203
Notes......Page 224
Appendix: List of Interviews......Page 244
Bibliography......Page 249
Index......Page 277