Book Review: Jon Kvist and Juho Saari (eds) The Europeanisation of Social Protection. Bristol, The Policy Press, 2007, 320 pp., £25.00 (pbk), ISBN 9781847420190 Milena Büchs New Governance in European Social Policy: the Open Method of Coordination Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 2007, 224 pp., £45.00 (hbk), ISBN 9780230506510

2008 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 411-412
Author(s):  
Caroline de la Porte
Author(s):  
Iryna Butуrskaya

The author examines liberal, governance, intergovernmental approaches and neofunctionalism in the EU and European integration management; constructs regional policy, comitology system, «European» regulatory agencies. They are considered as the elements that modify the traditional management control method in the EU. The governance approach is used for the analysis of interactions, which are often referred to "low" policy – daily regulation. It determines the «political face» of the EU. The approach uses multi-level governance concept and the open method of coordination. The first one has a narrow testing scope and aims to explain only the integration realities; the other one is more of a universal character. Attempts to comprehend this method face the lack of empirical research due to the relative novelty of the open method of coordination and complex combination of horizontal and vertical processes within it. Keywords: European Union, system of management methods, social policy


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