THE FUTURE OF THE EUROPEAN UNION: THE ROLE SUPRANATIONAL PUBLIC SPHERE AND THE WELFARE STATE POLICIES

In the mid-1970s, the great Norwegian scholar Stein Rokkan argued that the consolidation of the national welfare state was going to set definite limits to European integration. While the impetuous strengthening of the latter – from Maastricht to Lisbon – has largely disproved Rokkan’s factual expectations, developments during the last decade seem to have vindicated the theoretical insights which underpinned his original argument. If appropriately re-elaborated, such insights can help us to identify the conditions under which the economic and social dimension of the European Union might be reconciled in the future.

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El Estado Social 40 años después: la desconstitucionalización del programa constitucional // The Welfare State 40 years later: The desconstitucionalizacion of the constitutional programme

Revista de Derecho Político ◽

10.5944/rdp.100.2017.20717 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 1 (100) ◽

pp. 769

Author(s):

Gonzalo Maestro Buelga

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Welfare State ◽

Social Status ◽

Economic Crisis ◽

Economic Conditions ◽

The European Union ◽

Global Form ◽

Spanish Constitution ◽

The Welfare State ◽

The Way

Resumen:El trabajo analiza las tensiones entre los elementos propios del Estado social insertos en las diversas constituciones de los Estados europeos y los condicionantes económicos impuestos por la Unión europea, especialmente en los últimos años de crisis económica. Uno de los ejemplos estudiados es el de la constitucionalización del principio de estabilidad presupuestaria. Se sostiene en el texto que se ha «desconstitucionalizado» el estado social en España, como consecuencia de estas reformas acometidas en los años de la crisis económica, de manera que se han vaciado de contenido las cláusulas del Estado social previstas en nuestra Constitución.Summary:1. Introduction 2. The meaning of the welfare state clause in the Spanish Constitution of 1978. 3. The rupture in the way social status. 4. The global form of market and the deconstitucionalization of the welfare state.Abstract:The paper analyzes tensions between elements of the Welfare State inserts in the various constitutions of the European States and the economic conditions imposed by the European Union, especially in the last years of economic crisis. One of the studied examples is the constitutionalization of the principle of budgetary stability. It says in the text that it has «deconstitutionalized» the Welfare State in Spain, as a result of these reforms undertaken in the years of the economic crisis, so have emptied of content clauses of the Welfare State provided for in our Constitution.

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From a Caring State to an Investing State. Stages of a Changing Welfare Model in Labour Market Policy

Central European Journal of Public Policy ◽

10.2478/cejpp-2021-0009 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 0 (0) ◽

Author(s):

Judit Csoba

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Welfare State ◽

Labour Market ◽

Reform Process ◽

The European Union ◽

Labour Market Policies ◽

Policy Model ◽

Welfare Benefits ◽

Welfare Model ◽

The Welfare State

Abstract In this paper, we investigate the changing model of social security. The analyses are focusing on changes in labour market policies which have taken place in the countries of the European Union. With the critical review of scientific literature of welfare changes, we try to answer the next questions. What circumstances led to the shift from the welfare state focusing on welfare benefits and services to the generally accepted model of the activating? What reforms and what stages lead to the transformation of the welfare model especially in the area of labour market policies? How the earlier integration efforts, which had mainly focused on entitlement, was replaced with a market-based approach like social investment? The most important result of the critical analysis is the presentation of the policy model transfer between the states of the European Union and the steps of the reform process, which jeopardise the enforcement of the citizen's social rights. The first part of the study presents the theoretical framework for the transformation of the labour market policies, the key pillars of the welfare state and the term “activation state” and “investing state”. The second part examines the key features of five stages of changing model.

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Pestieau Pierre (2006), The Welfare State in the European Union: Economic and Social Perspectives. Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, £20.00, pp.169, pbk.

Journal of Social Policy ◽

10.1017/s0047279407001250 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 672-674

Author(s):

TUBA I AGARTAN

Keyword(s):

New York ◽

European Union ◽

Welfare State ◽

The European Union ◽

Social Perspectives ◽

Oxford University ◽

The Welfare State ◽

Oxford University Press

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Welfare State Policies

The Oxford Handbook of Danish PoliticsThe Oxford Handbook of Danish Politics ◽

10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198833598.013.30 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 539-558

Author(s):

Klaus Petersen

Keyword(s):

Welfare State ◽

Policy Change ◽

Golden Age ◽

Historical Development ◽

State Policies ◽

New Paradigm ◽

Public Discussion ◽

Welfare Model ◽

The Welfare State ◽

Welfare State Policies

Denmark is a welfare state. Arguably, the development of the welfare state over the last 120 years is one of the most striking features of Danish history and society. An indication of Hegel’s famous phrase that ‘the owl of Minerva spreads its wings only with the falling of the dusk’, the crisis of the welfare state in the 1970s sparked an interest in understanding both the welfare state’s historical development as well as the changes that took place in the present. This chapter starts with defining the main characteristics of the Danish welfare state, followed by an outline of its historical development (organized around four historical phases) until the end of the ‘golden age’ in the 1970s. First, the following sections discuss the crisis of the Danish welfare state and the main challenges confronting the Danish welfare model since the 1970s. Second, they offer an overview of the main trends of policy change over the last four decades. Developments over the last 3–4 decades have triggered an ongoing academic and public discussion on the nature of the changes: are these changes taking place within the paradigm of the classic Danish welfare state, or are they leading towards a new paradigm?

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Free movement of people and cross-border welfare in the European Union: Dynamic rules, limited outcomes

Journal of European Social Policy ◽

10.1177/0958928718767300 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 29 (1) ◽

pp. 84-99 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Dorte Sindbjerg Martinsen ◽

Gabriel Pons Rotger ◽

Jessica Sampson Thierry

Keyword(s):

European Union ◽

Welfare State ◽

Free Movement ◽

The European Union ◽

Cross Border ◽

Court Of Justice ◽

Fundamental Challenge ◽

Research Gap ◽

The Impact ◽

The Welfare State

For decades, the European legislators and the Court of Justice have extended the rights to free movement and cross-border welfare in the European Union (EU). Strong assumptions on the impact of these rules have been made. It has been held by some that they will lead to welfare migration and thus to be a fundamental challenge to the welfare state. However, studies of how these rules are implemented and what become the de facto outcomes hereof remain scarce. We address this research gap, by examining domestic responses to and outcomes of dynamic EU rules. We based our research on a unique set of administrative data for all EU citizens living in the universalist, tax-financed welfare state of Denmark between 2002 and 2013. We find that domestic responses have been restrictive and outcomes limited.

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