1st Edition
EU Social Policy in the 1990s Towards a Corporatist Policy Community
By Gerda Falkner
Copyright 1998
268 Pages
by
Routledge
272 Pages
by
Routledge
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This book offers an analytical overview of schools of thought on European integration which offer useful insights into EU social politics. Building on this framework, the chapters then examine in detail pre-Maastricht social policy and the 'social partners', the innovations of the Treaty itself, and where EU social policy stands at the end of the 1990s. Case studies of European Works Councils,... Read more
Introductory Overview 1. Political Theory and EU Politics 2. Social Policy from Messina to Maastricht 3. Social Policy in the Maastricht Treaty 4. Policy-making under Social Protocol 5. The Evolution of Social Interest in Intermediation 6. Conclusions and Outlook
Biography
Associate Professor at the Institute for Government and Political Science, University of Vienna.
'Gerda Falkner has convincingly synthesized approaches to European integration and to the study of interest groups and policy making. She also provides a succinct overview of the development of Community social policy - Michael J. Gorges, Journal of European Social Policy 10(2) 2000
