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 …

This article presents the results of a systematic literature review of research articles (N= 72)
to study the governance logic of integrated activation policies and the problems relating to …

This book examines the origins and evolution of labor market policy in Western Europe,
while paying close attention to the oeCD and the European Union as proliferators of new …

This article analyses the effects of the European Social Fund (ESF) on domestic activation
policies in the three Belgian regions: Flanders, Wallonia and Brussels. We argue that over …

This article analyses the changing position of gender in the European Employment Strategy
(EES) since its 2005 relaunch. Overall, we find a picture of mixed progress towards gender …

This article concerns the effectiveness of the European Employment Strategy (EES) as a
governance tool. It analyses the policy measures of the Member States with regard to the …

Abstract The European Employment Strategy (EES) emerged in the early 1990s under the
influence of an acute rise in unemployment and the introduction of economic and monetary …

This paper seeks to develop and test an issue-level determinants model of opinion
congruence inequality between the privileged and the underprivileged social groups …

The European Employment Strategy (EES) has opened up new dynamics of
Europeanization in the area of social policy. This article proposes to pay more attention to …

The Open Method of Coordination (OMC) was institutionalized at the Lisbon European
Council in 2000 as the European Union's (EU) solution for policy coordination. Designed for …