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 introduction provides a brief overview of the existing OMC literature with regard to the
introduction of the OMC, its theoretical conceptualisation of effectiveness and legitimacy and …

In the 1990s a new approach to economic, employment and social policy emerged in the EU
in the wake of the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU), to respond to low growth, to …

The contribution addresses–through actor-centred historical institutionalism–why and how
social investment (SI) emerged at the European Union (EU) level. SI policies built on the …

Analysing selected European Commission and Council documents, this article identifies the
changes and enduring features of the EU social policy discourse and investigates their …

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 adapts and then uses principal–agent (PA) theory to conceptualize and
thereafter to analyse the EU-level development of the Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) …

In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open
Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book …

This article re-examines the division between" optimists" and" pessimists" within the
literature on the Open Method of Coordination's (OMC) effectiveness. Each of those" camps" …

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Winksele, het roept nog steeds dons bij me op: nestdiertje dat slaapt. De tijd die je was …