Social Policy, Economic Governance and EMU : Alternatives to Austerity

2014 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Economic Governance

The European Pillar of Social Rights: Effectively Addressing Displacement?

2018 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 210-230 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Garben
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Internal Market ◽  
Legal Order ◽  
Social Rights ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Eu

An assessment of the ‘European Pillar of Social Rights’ by reference to its constitutional significance – Potential to significantly improve the social output of the EU by addressing the displacement of the Social Policy Title of previous years – Incapacity to redress the constitutional imbalance between ‘the market’ and ‘the social’ in the EU legal order – Continuing displacement of the (national and European) legislator in the internal market and economic governance

The Constitutional (Im)balance between ‘the Market’ and ‘the Social’ in the European Union

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sacha Garben
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
European Union ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
European Integration ◽  
Legislative Process ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Eu

An assessment of the balance between ‘the market’ and ‘the social’ by reference to the areas of social policy, the internal market and economic governance – Imbalance resulting from a consitutional displacement of the legislative process (EU and national) and instead decision-making by the judiciary and the executive – Proposals to address the imbalance by reinforcing the role of the EU legislative process and limiting other forms of European integration.

Hitching a Ride on the Tiger's Back: Globalisation and Spatial Imaginaries in New Zealand

1998 ◽  
Vol 16 (5) ◽  
pp. 599-614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wendy Larner
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Direct Investment ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
National Economy ◽  
Direct Investment ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Political Strategy ◽  
Global Capital ◽  
Means And Ends ◽  
The Pacific

In this paper I develop a genealogy of globalisation in New Zealand informed by the neo-Foucauldian literature on governmentality. My claim is that globalisation involves a shift-in the object of economic governance away from the national economy and towards the circuits of global capital. This shift is associated with a change in spatial imaginaries. Through an analysis of three key arenas—social policy, foreign direct investment, and immigration—I show that policies and programmes, designed to fulfil these new political ambitions, aim to articulate individuals, sectors, and regions into the economic flows and networks of the Pacific Rim. In this regard, globalisation can be usefully understood as a political strategy that promotes a new understanding of the means and ends of economic governance.

EU social policy and the governance architecture of Europe 2020

2012 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 285-300 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kenneth A Armstrong
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Coordination ◽  
Social Goals ◽  
Social Dimension ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Open Method Of Coordination ◽  
Europe 2020 ◽  
Coordination Framework ◽  
Governance Architecture ◽  
Policy Vision

As the successor to the decade-long Lisbon agenda, Europe 2020 is the European Union’s 10-year strategy for ‘smart’, ‘sustainable’ and ‘inclusive’ growth. This article analyses the ‘governance architecture’ of this new agenda, and, more particularly, its social dimension. Insofar as Europe 2020 has a social dimension it is located within a suite of thematic ‘flagship initiatives’, as well as within a policy coordination framework that, while building upon the Lisbon agenda’s governance architecture, now forms part of the European Semester framework. Whereas the flagship initiatives continue a long tradition of the deployment of non-legislative instruments and EU funds towards the EU’s social goals, the role to be played by the ‘open method of coordination’ as a ‘new’ post-Lisbon form of EU social governance remains unclear. Indeed, the risk is that political energy will be concentrated on policy coordination as a means of strengthening EU economic governance rather than as a vehicle for articulating a progressive social policy vision.

Usurping Social Policy: Neoliberalism and Economic Governance in Hungary*

2006 ◽  
Vol 35 (4) ◽  
pp. 585-606 ◽  
Author(s):  
RICHARD PHILLIPS ◽  
JEFFREY HENDERSON ◽  
LASZLO ANDOR ◽  
DAVID HULME
Keyword(s):  
Social Policy ◽  
Policy Change ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
The State ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Social Expenditure ◽  
International Agencies ◽  
Social Policy Reform ◽  
Policy Agendas ◽  
Hungarian State

This paper takes issue with arguments emanating from the global social policy literature that neoliberal policy agendas have been largely a consequence of the interplay of international agencies with indigenous reform interests. While relevant, such arguments grasp only part of the story of social policy change. By means of a case study of Hungary between 1990 and 2002, this article emphasises the role played by the bureaucratic reconstitution of the state and changing forms of national economic governance in the explanation of social policy change. We show how the bureaucratic redesign of the Hungarian state generated a ‘finance-driven’ form of economic governance with the state bureaucracy reconfigured around the fiscal control of the Finance Ministry. These changes had significant implications, not simply for social expenditure, but for the intellectual nature and bureaucratic space for social policy-making. Whereas critiques of neoliberal social policy reform tend to focus on the ideological nature of the projects, this analysis highlights the need to develop visions of, and arguments for, an alternative to the finance-driven forms of economic governance that have become the de facto bureaucratic archetype for re-designing welfare states.

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