Theories of European integration are relevant for understanding the development of the
OMC, given the role of Member States and European institutions in this process. The …

Changing Welfare States is is a major new examination of the wave of social reform that has
swept across Europe over the past two decades. In a comparative fashion, it analyses reform …

In late summer 2015, Sweden embarked on one of the largest self-described humanitarian
efforts in its history, opening its borders to 163,000 asylum seekers fleeing the war in Syria …

In this chapter we develop a typology of European Union (EU) integration to capture how, to
what extent and according to which policy aims EU involvement in Member States has …

Is in-work poverty a low-wage or an unemployment problem, and is it the same problem all
across Europe? Because of the definitional ambiguity, we really do not know. In this article …

In the early 1990s the Swedish welfare system was struck by capital flight and a national
financial crisis creating severe problems for the Swedish economy. This crisis became the …

Welfare reforms in post-communist countries are determined by economic and social
hardship, democratization of the political systems and rapid structural change. This …

Social investment (SI) is part of a strategy to modernize the European welfare states by
focusing on human resource development throughout the life‐course, while ensuring …

The concept of public action is a magnifying lens for shedding light on the plurality of
institutional and social actors interacting in policies. Taking into account a changing social …

Combating Poverty critically analyses the growing divergence between Quebec and other
large Canadian provinces in terms of social and labour market policies and their outcomes …