Machine generated contents note: Introduction. The political opportunities and constraints of
welfare state reform; 1. The welfare state: dynamic development, crisis, resilience, and …

Economic globalization, demographic ageing, and changing household/family structures
confront European employment and welfare regimes with new challenges. Hence national …

2 Introduction problems. Furthermore, they argue that a stronger EU role in social policy
would increase the legitimacy of EU integration by preventing electorates from increasingly …

The open method of co‐ordination (OMC) can contribute to the co‐ordinated modernization
of the national systems of employment and social protection in Europe, if it is institutionalized …

Résumé Les approches ethnographiques sont utiles pour la collecte d'un matériau qualitatif
offrant une vision nuancée et réaliste des politiques publiques. Leur ambition ne doit …

This paper analyses the potential of the open method of co-ordination (OMC) and of
laboratory federalism for policy innovation and learning in a multi-level system of …

The Lisbon Process, launched in 2000 and relaunched in 2005, revived the debate about
the existence of a European social model. This article argues that the Lisbon agenda …

Nine years after its annunciation at the March 2000 Lisbon Summit as a broadly applicable
new governance instrument for the EU, the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) remains …

Abstract The European Union's Open Method of Coordination (OMC) is a method that in
principle assumes that coordination of policies can be achieved without the use of “hard …

The European Union has committed itself to combating racism as a general objective of law
and policy. EU legislation requires Member States to introduce laws prohibiting racial …