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 …

Since the mid-1990s European welfare states have undergone a major transformation.
Relative to the post-war years, today they put less emphasis on income protection and more …

European integration has created a constitutional asymmetry between policies promoting
market efficiencies and policies promoting social protection and equality. National welfare …

Democracy in Europe is about the impact of European integration on national democracies.
It argues that the oft-cited democratic deficit is indeed a problem, but not so much at the level …

Recently, political science has seen an intense debate about the phenomenon of
'governance'. The aim of this paper is to clarify the basic concepts that are at the heart of this …

What does EU law truly mean for the member states? This book presents the first
encompassing and in-depth empirical study of the effects of'voluntaristic'and (partly)'soft'EU …

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 …

The responsibility for retirement income is increasingly shifted from the state to private
actors, in particular employers and employees. Many politicians, policy advisers, and …

This article investigates the allocation of regulatory authority in the EU. By introducing the
concept of a 'regulatory regime', it criticizes not only earlier accounts of the EU 'regulatory …