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Enabling Social Europe

Publication year: 2006

ISBN: 978-3-540-29772-7

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The study is distinguished by a unique collaboration of social and economic policy experts coming from a wide range of disciplines: economics, law, sociology, political science, and philosophy. The authors seek to shed new light on whether European social policy ought to play a role in the future and, if so, what sort of role that could be. They convincingly argue that despite an implicit normative consensus on the ‘European social model’, there is still room for a multifaceted world in which welfare regimes can maintain their own path-dependent ways of achieving a fair and just society with a high level of welfare for all.


Subject: Humanities, Social Science and Law / European Union / European Union (EU) / Welfare / individual responsibility / interdisciplinarity / national competition / personal autonomy / social systems