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SOCIAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY book cover

1st Edition

SOCIAL RIGHTS IN EUROPE IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY

Edited By Stefano Civitarese Matteucci, Simon Halliday Copyright 2017
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge
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This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation. The case studies are then used... Read more

List of contributors

Acknowledgements

Table of cases

PART I  Introduction

1 Social rights, the Welfare State and European austerity

Stefano Civitarese Matteucci and Simon Halliday

PART II  European case studies

2 France

Diane Roman

3 Germany

Ulrike Lembke

4 Italy

Alessandra Albanese

5 Spain

Dolores Utrilla

6 UK

Jed Meers

7 Austerity, conditionality and litigation in six European nations

Michael Adler and Lars Inge Terum

PART III  Theoretical discussions

8 Should a minimum income be unconditional?

Stuart White

9 The social dimension of fundamental rights in times of crisis

Francesco Ferraro

10 Social rights and welfare reform in times of economic crisis

Jeff King

11 The political economy of European social rights

Emilios Christodoulidis and Marco Goldoni

12 Economic crisis and territorial assymetrical effects on the guarantee of social rights within the European Economic and Monteary Union (EMU)

Francesco Bilancia

13 Free movement of persons and transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU): a melancholic eulogy

Stefano Giubboni

Index

 

Biography

Stefano Civitarese Matteucci is Professor of Public Law at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy.

Simon Halliday is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of York, UK, and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia.

 

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