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 …

Active labor-market policies (ALMPs) have developed significantly over the past two
decades across Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) …

Why is the EU so reliant upon exchanges with interest organisations?-What safeguards
have been developed to prevent capture by special interests, and how effective are these …

This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …

Research on governance and the European Union is a veritable growth industry. A quick
glance at the Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) suffices to witness an explosion of EU …

The aim of this article is to establish an analytical framework for studying the impact of the
open method of co-ordination (OMC) on three levels of political action within the EU, namely …

The pension privatization trend that swept Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) between 1998
and 2004 presents a conundrum when viewed from the perspective of European Union (EU) …

The EU as the most developed international organization, provides a laboratory for
observing the development of democratic structures outside its member-states. The …

In 2016, the Commission proposed an ambitious governance strategy in order to further the
transformation of the European energy system towards the Unions' 2030 climate and energy …

Regieren in modernen Gesellschaften wird zunehmend komplexer. Dies zeigt sich in der
Gewaltenteilung in demokratischen Regierungssystemen, der funktionalen Differenzierung …