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Record Nr.

UNINA9910815499203321

Autore

Kroger Sandra

Titolo

Soft governance in hard politics : European coordination of anti-poverty policies in France and Germany / / by Sandra Kroger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Wiesbaden, : VS Verlag fur Sozialwissenschaften / GWV Fachverlage GmbH, Wiesbaden, 2009

ISBN

3-531-91810-9

Edizione

[1st ed. 2009.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

361.6139094

Soggetti

Poor - Europe

Economic assistance, Domestic - Europe

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introducing the Lisbon Strategy and the OMC -- State of the art -- Research framework -- The OMC inclusion at national level -- The OMC inclusion at EU-level -- Evaluation of the OMC inclusion by involved actors -- Conclusion and outlook.

Sommario/riassunto

The present study addresses the governance architecture of the much debated Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of social inclusion and evaluates its implementation in France, Germany and at EU-level. Based on extensive variable-based empirical research, it assesses both the effectiveness and the legitimacy of the OMC and comes to unequivocal conclusions: Due to the resistance of member states and remaining differences in underlying ideas of social justice, anti-poverty policy could not be Europeanised through the OMC which unfolds as a very weak governance architecture. The general framework of negative integration remains unchallenged by this non-binding instrument which, to the contrary of its intention, rather forecloses the possibility of supranational learning. With regard to legitimacy, the OMC supports policy-making in closed, intransparent circles of very weakly or not democratically mandated representatives and therefore does little do decrease the democratic deficit of the EU - however one of its original ambitions.