Open Method of Co-ordination in Action : The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies Second Printing.
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Open Method of Co-ordination in Action : The European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies Second Printing.
Author:
Zeitlin, Jonathan.
ISBN:
9783035262520
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (522 pages)
Series:
Travail and Société - Work and Society ; v.49
Travail and Société - Work and Society
Contents:
Table of Contents -- List of Abbreviations 9 -- Acknowledgements 15 -- Foreword 17 -- INTRODUCTION: The Open Method of Co-ordination in Question 19 -- PART I: THEORETICAL AND HISTORICAL OVERVIEWS -- CHAPTER 1: The Open Method of Co-ordination and the Construction of Social Europe. A Historical Perspective 37 -- CHAPTER 2: The Open Method of Co-ordination and the Debate over "Hard" and "Soft" Law 83 -- PART II: NATIONAL STUDIES -- CHAPTER 3: Trying to Reform the "Best Pupils in the Class"? The Open Method of Co-ordination in Sweden and Denmark 107 -- CHAPTER 4: The Open Method of Co-ordination and National Institutional Capabilities. The Italian Experience 137 -- CHAPTER 5: The OMC as Selective Amplifier for National Strategies of Reform. What the Netherlands Want to Learn from Europe 173 -- CHAPTER 6: The Leverage Effect. The Open Method of Co-ordination in France 217 -- CHAPTER 7: Surface Integration. The National Action Plans for Employment and Social Inclusion in Germany 249 -- CHAPTER 8: How Open is the United Kingdom to the OMC Process on Social Inclusion? 287 -- CHAPTER 9: Ireland: The Very Idea of an Open Method of Co-ordination 311 -- PART III: COMPARATIVE ASSESSMENTS -- CHAPTER 10: Participation in the Open Method of Co-ordination. The Cases of Employment and Social Inclusion 353 -- CHAPTER 11: Gender Mainstreaming and the OMC. Is the Open Method Too Open for Gender Equality Policy? 391 -- CHAPTER 12: The European Employment Strategy, a Channel for Activating Social Protection? 417 -- CONCLUSION: The Open Method of Co-ordination in Action. Theoretical Promise, Empirical Realities, Reform Strategy 447 -- Notes on the Contributors 505 -- BM 1 515 -- BM 2 517.
Abstract:
No development in European integration has aroused greater interest or greater controversy in recent years than the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC), which has become an increasingly broadly applied instrument of EU governance since its invention as part of the Lisbon Strategy in 2000. Yet it is widely agreed that the debates surrounding the OMC suffer from a serious empirical deficit. This book, based on an international research network organised by the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the Observatoire social europeen, and the SALTSA Programme, focuses on two highly developed OMC processes, the European Employment and Social Inclusion Strategies, concentrating on their operation and influence at national and subnational levels. It comprises a combination of national and comparative studies, covering eight countries (Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom) and four transversal themes (hard and soft law, participation, gender equality, activation). These studies are framed by a historical overview of the OMC's place in the construction of Social Europe, and by a synthetic conclusion, which assesses the available evidence on the OMC in action, and proposes a reflexive reform strategy for realising its theoretical promise as a new mode of EU governance.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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