New Governance and the European Employment Strategy

New Governance and the European Employment Strategy
Author: Samantha Velluti
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2010-03-10
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1136927778

In recent years new or experimental approaches to governance in the EU, namely the Open Method of Coordination (OMC), have attracted great interest and controversy. This book examines the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its implementation through the OMC, exploring the promises and limitations of the EES for EU social law and policy and for the safeguard of social rights. This significant and timely work offers new insights and fresh perspectives into the operation of New Governance and its relationship with both European and national law and constitutionalism. This book will be of great interest to academics, researchers and postgraduate students working in European law – specifically in the field of EU employment law and gender equality – and European governance studies in general.

Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance

Wage bargaining under the new European Economic Governance
Author: Guy Van Gyes
Publisher: ETUI
Total Pages: 419
Release: 2015-09-28
Genre: Collective bargaining
ISBN: 2874523739

Within the framework of the new European economic governance, neoliberal views on wages have further increased in prominence and have steered various reforms of collective bargaining rules and practices. As the crisis in Europe came to be largely interpreted as a crisis of competitiveness, wages were seen as the core adjustment variable for ‘internal devaluation’, the claim being that competitiveness could be restored through a reduction of labour costs. This book proposes an alternative view according to which wage developments need to be strengthened through a Europe-wide coordinated reconstruction of collective bargaining as a precondition for more sustainable and more inclusive growth in Europe. It contains major research findings from the CAWIE2 – Collectively Agreed Wages in Europe – project, conducted in 2014–2015 for the purpose of discussing and debating the currently dominant policy perspectives on collectively-bargained wage systems under the new European economic governance.

New Governance in European Social Policy

New Governance in European Social Policy
Author: Milena Büchs
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 216
Release: 2007-10-11
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0230591507

Büchs analyses the goals and instruments of the Open Method of Coordination, discusses approaches which theorize its functioning, examines its policy content and develops a framework for its evaluation. Through the examination of a case study the author demonstrates how policy actors apply the OMC in employment in Germany and the United Kingdom.

Experimentalist Governance in the European Union

Experimentalist Governance in the European Union
Author: Charles F. Sabel
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
Total Pages: 385
Release: 2010-02-25
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0199572496

This book brings together a distinguished interdisciplinary group of European and American scholars to analyze the core theoretical features of the EU's new experimentalist governance architecture and explore its empirical development across a series of key policy domains.

Law and New Governance in the EU and the US

Law and New Governance in the EU and the US
Author: Gráinne de Búrca
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 444
Release: 2006-04-26
Genre: Law
ISBN: 1847310400

New approaches to governance have attracted significant scholarly attention in recent years. Commentators on both sides of the Atlantic have identified, charted and evaluated the rise and spread of forms of governance, forms which seem to differ from previous regulatory and legal paradigms. In Europe, the emergence of the Open Method of Coordination has provided a focal point for new governance studies. In the US, scholarship on issues such as collaborative problem-solving, democratic experimentalism, and problem-solving courts exemplify the interest in similar developments. This book covers diverse policy sectors and subjects, including the environment, education, anti-discrimination, food safety and many others. While some chapters concentrate on the operation of new governance mechanisms in a federal and multilevel context and others look at the relationship between public and private mechanisms and settings, what all the contributors share in common is the pursuit of effective mechanisms for addressing complex social problems, and the challenges they raise for our understanding of law and constitutionalism, and of legal and constitutional values.

Racism and Equality in the European Union

Racism and Equality in the European Union
Author: Mark Bell
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages:
Release: 2009-01-08
Genre: Law
ISBN: 0191559326

The European Union has committed itself to combating racism as a general objective of law and policy. EU legislation requires Member States to introduce laws prohibiting racial discrimination in many aspects of everyday life, including employment, education, healthcare, and housing. Alongside legislation requiring action at national level, the EU institutions have also made periodic commitments to 'mainstream' racial equality: taking anti-racism objectives into account within all areas of EU law and policy. This book analyses the extent to which the objectives of combating racism and promoting ethnic equality have been effectively mainstreamed throughout a wide range of EU policy fields. It begins by considering what combating racism means in the contemporary context of the enlarged EU. Bell explores what mainstreaming ethnic equality objectives entails, and whether the priorities and instruments differ from those adopted in the earlier mainstreaming of gender equality, or those used on other discrimination grounds. The second part of the book examines the extent to which EU law and policy objectives have, in practice, been integrated, exploring the effects in the key areas of employment, social inclusion (including education, health and housing), immigration, and criminal law.

Normative Patterns and Legal Developments in the Social Dimension of the EU

Normative Patterns and Legal Developments in the Social Dimension of the EU
Author: Ann Numhauser-Henning
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-06-28
Genre: Law
ISBN: 178225191X

This book explores the normative and legal evolution of the Social Dimension - labour law, social security law and family law - in both the EU and its Member States, during the last decade. It does this from a wide range of theoretical and legal-substantive perspectives. The past decade has witnessed the entering into force of the Lisbon Treaty and its emphasis on fundamental rights, a new coordination regulation within the field of social security (Regulation 883/2004/EC), and the case law of the Court of Justice of the European Union in the so-called Laval Quartet. Furthermore structural changes affecting demographics and family have also challenged solidarity in new ways. The book is organised by reference to distinct 'normative patterns' and their development in the fields of law covered, such as the protection of established groups, the position of market functional values and the scope for just distribution. The book represents an innovative and important interdisciplinary approach to analysing EU law and Social Europe, and contributes a complex, yet thought-provoking, picture for the future. The contributors represent an interesting mix of well-known and distinguished as well as upcoming and promising researchers throughout Europe and beyond.

The EU's Lisbon Strategy

The EU's Lisbon Strategy
Author: P. Copeland
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2012-10-23
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1137272163

How successful was the EU's Lisbon Strategy? This volume provides the first comprehensive assessment of the Strategy and reflects on its key developments during its 10-year cycle. The volume contains both theoretical and empirical contributions by some of the leading scholars of EU studies across the social sciences.

EU Socio-Economic Governance in Central and Eastern Europe

EU Socio-Economic Governance in Central and Eastern Europe
Author: Mario Munta
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-05
Genre: Manpower policy
ISBN: 9780367697594

Employment policy in the European Semester : an introduction -- Theorizing the influence of the European Semester : mechanisms, conditions and policy change -- Croatia : cherry-picking from the European Semester -- Hungary : a case of neglect? -- Slovakia : reinforcing existing trajectories -- Slovenia : crisis pressure, socialization and strategic use of the European Semester -- How does the European Semester influence employment policies in Central and Eastern Europe? -- Conclusion.