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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255318103321

Autore

Schellinger A

Titolo

EU Labor Market Policy : Ideas, Thought Communities and Policy Change / / by A. Schellinger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9781137508720

1137508728

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (VIII, 212 p.)

Disciplina

331.12/042094

Soggetti

Europe - Politics and government

Political planning

Welfare state

Social policy

Labor economics

European Politics

Public Policy

Welfare

Social Policy

Labor Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

The EU's 'social dimension' today is a product of the ideology of the 1990s. Its employment field is directed to increase the employability of workers and the adaptability of labor market regimes. The book argues that this social-liberal approach is best explained with a set of ideas strategically advanced by 'thought communities' in the policy process. It traces the success of this new approach in the debates among academic experts and policy-makers in the mid-1990s, the decisions leading to the adoption of the Treaty of Amsterdam, and the establishment of the approach in the policy field between 1997-2007. The author explores the processes through which ideas came to matter



in the policy process. At every stage, the claim that ideas played a predominant role is strengthened by addressing the most viable alternative explanations such as institutional constraints set by Economic and Monetary Union and the preferences of political leaders.