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A European Social Union after the Crisis.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (564 pages)Content type:
  • text
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  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781108258616
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  • 306.094
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Contents:
Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Summaries of Key Court Cases -- Part I Solidarity and Legitimacy -- 1 The Idea of a European Social Union: A Normative Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Incomplete Monetary Union -- 1.2.1 Traditional Textbook Analysis Revisited -- 1.2.2 Automatic Stabilisers in a Multi-Tiered Polity -- 1.2.3 Wage Coordination and the Social Model -- 1.2.4 Preliminary Conclusions -- 1.3 Integration and Social Regulation in the EU28: A Balancing Act -- 1.3.1 Free Movement and the Spectre of Social Dumping -- 1.3.2 Reconciling Openness and Domestic Cohesion -- 1.4 The Founding Fathers' Inspiration and the Meaning of Justice and Solidarity -- 1.4.1 Setting the Scene: The Founding Fathers' Social Inspiration -- 1.4.2 Normative Foundations in Contemporary Theories of Justice -- 1.4.2.1 Responsibility, Insurance, and Distribution -- 1.4.2.2 The Boundaries of Justice -- 1.4.3 Supranational Justice, Subsidiarity and Openness -- 1.4.3.1 Two Observations on Global Justice and the Organisation of Interpersonal Solidarity -- 1.4.3.2 Is Upward Convergence Sufficient? -- 1.4.4 The Normative Puzzle -- 1.5 Conditions for Upward Convergence and Social Investment -- 1.6 Conclusions -- 2 The European Social Union: A Missing but Necessary 'Political Good' -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 What is 'Social Europe'? -- 2.3 Towards a European Social Union (ESU): The Substantive Agenda -- 2.4 The Justification of a Social Union: Some Normative Proposals -- 2.5 The Social Union as a Political Good -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 The Solidarity Argument for the European Union -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The European Decoupling of the Redistributing Community from the National Community.
3.2.1 The Nation-State Couples the Nation and the State -- 3.2.2 State Matters Are Increasingly Detached from the Nation -- 3.2.3 The Liberal Nationalist Response: Between Solidarity-Limiting and Solidarity-Creating -- 3.2.4 European Redistribution -- 3.2.5 Difficulties -- 3.2.6 Strategic Levellism and Ideological Levellism -- 3.3 Recoupling the National and the Redistributing Community -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Social Justice in an Ever More Diverse Union -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Structuring the Argument -- 4.3 Back to Age-Old Beginnings: The Legacy of Classical Private International Law and Europe's Foundational Dilemma -- 4.3.1 Savigny's International Private Legal Ordering and the Unruliness of Interstate Relations -- 4.3.2 Social Justice through Political Democracy: The Example of Hermann Heller's 'Social Rechtsstaat' -- 4.4 The EEC in the Age of 'Embedded Liberalism' -- 4.5 'Social Regulation' and the Problems with a European 'Social Market Economy' -- 4.5.1 Social Regulation in the EU -- 4.5.2 Social Justice through a 'Highly Competitive Social Market Economy' -- 4.5.3 The Internal Market as 'Social Market' and the Idea of 'Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism' -- 4.6 EMU as an Irresolvable Diagonal Conflict Constellation -- 4.7 From 'Integration through Law' via 'Crisis Law' to Technocratic Rule and Authoritarian Managerialism -- 4.8 Epilogue: 'There Must be Some Way Out of Here' -- 5 The Democratic Legitimacy of EU Institutions and Support for Social Policy in Europe -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Preferences about Social Security Policy -- 5.3 Data -- 5.4 Operationalisation -- 5.4.1 Support for Social Security on the EU Level -- 5.4.2 Self-Interest, In-Group Solidarity, Institutional Trust -- 5.4.3 Control Variables -- 5.5 Analyses -- 5.5.1 Levels of Support for Social Security on the EU Level.
5.5.2 Explaining Support for Social Security on the EU Level -- 5.6 Discussion -- 5.7 Appendix -- Part II Topics in European Governance -- 6 The Impact of Eurozone Governance on Welfare State Stability -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Euro Area Imbalances and Divergence -- 6.2.1 Core and Periphery in the EU and the Eurozone -- 6.2.2 The Social Impact of the Crisis and the Crisis Response -- 6.3 The Origin of Divergence -- 6.4 Policy Response to Euro Area Imbalances: EMU Reform -- 6.4.1 The Pursuit of Better Governance -- 6.4.2 Launched: Banking Union and Investment Plan -- 6.4.3 Outstanding: Fiscal Capacity and Shock Absorption -- 6.5 Euro Area Unemployment Insurance under Consideration -- 6.5.1 Options for Fiscal Stabilisation Instruments -- 6.5.2 The Added Value of Eurozone Unemployment Insurance -- 6.5.3 Institutional Requirements and Political Feasibility -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7 Booms, Busts and the Governance of the Eurozone -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Standard OCA Theory and the Governance of the Eurozone -- 7.3 Governance of a Monetary Union in the Face of Temporary Shocks -- 7.4 The Nature of Shocks in the Eurozone: Empirical Evidence -- 7.5 What Kind of Flexibility -- 7.6 Implications for the Governance of the Eurozone -- 7.6.1 Common Unemployment Insurance -- 7.6.2 National Stabilisation? -- 7.7 Completing the Monetary Union with Political Union -- 7.7.1 The European Commission and Political Union -- 7.7.2 Bureaucratic versus Political Integration -- 7.8 Conclusion -- 7.9 Appendix -- 8 What Follows Austerity? From Social Pillar to New Deal -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 How We Got Here: European Social Policy in Retrospect -- 8.3 The European Pillar of Social Rights: Potential and Limits -- 8.3.1 The Rationale of the Pillar -- 8.3.2 The Role of the Social Pillar within the Wider Framework of EMU -- 8.3.2.1 Wage Determination.
8.3.2.2 Employment Protection Laws (EPL) -- 8.3.3 The Scope of the Social Pillar -- 8.3.4 Mechanisms for Delivering the Social Pillar -- 8.3.5 Assessment -- 8.4 Towards a European New Deal? -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 Social Dialogue: Why It Matters - European Employers' Perspective -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 History of the EU Social Dialogue -- 9.2.1 Lessons Learned -- 9.3 EU Social Partnership and Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century -- 9.3.1 Work Programmes -- 9.3.2 Labour-Market Analyses -- 9.3.3 EU Economic Governance Process, European Semester -- 9.4 EU Sectoral Social Dialogue -- 9.5 Social Dialogue at Company Level - European Works Councils -- 9.6 A Diverse and Ever-Evolving National Social Dialogue and the Link to the EU Social Dialogue -- 9.7 Conclusion -- 10 The European Social Dialogue: What Is the Role of Employers and What Are the Hopes for the Future? -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Major Milestones of the ESD -- 10.3 The Strategies of the Actors -- 10.4 A New Dynamic in Desperate Times -- 10.5 What Challenges Lie Ahead? -- 10.6 Conclusion -- 11 The European Semester Process: Adaptability and Latitude in Support of the European Social Model -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The European Semester and its Soft-Law Roots -- 11.3 The European Semester as a Hybrid Governance Structure -- 11.3.1 Analytical Framework -- 11.4 The European Semester: Adapting its Goals to New Priorities and Country-Specific Challenges -- 11.4.1 Unemployment -- 11.4.2 Wages -- 11.4.3 Pension System -- 11.5 National Responses to EU-Level Socioeconomic Targets -- 11.5.1 Ideas on the Nature of Sound Socioeconomic Policies -- 11.5.2 Conflicting Views on Calculation Methods and Reform Effects -- 11.5.3 Legitimacy and Democracy -- 11.5.4 National Governments Cannot Influence Everything -- 11.6 Conclusion.
12 Balancing Economic Objectives and Social Considerations in the new EU Investment... -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Balancing FDI and Social Considerations under the Founding Treaties of the EU -- 12.3 Social Considerations and the New European International Investment Policy -- 12.4 The Social Considerations in the New EU Investment Agreements -- 12.4.1 EU-South Korea FTA -- 12.4.2 EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement -- 12.4.3 EU-Vietnam FTA -- 12.4.4 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- 12.4.5 Procedural Aspects of the Balance between Economic and Social Considerations -- 12.4.6 Appraisal -- 12.5 Conclusions -- Part III Legal and Institutional Challenges -- 13 How Can the Viking/Laval Conundrum Be Resolved? Balancing the Economic and the Social: One Bed for Two Dreams? -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Relationship between the Social and Economic Dimension of Economic Integration in the EU... -- 13.3 Laval's Regulatory Conundrum: Collective Standard-Setting Implications for Posted.... -- 13.3.1 Scene Setter: The Regulatory Framework of the Posting of Workers Directive -- 13.3.2 Laval: Collective Standard-setting in EU Perspective -- 13.3.3 The Existential Question: Is There a Laval's Regulatory Conundrum with... -- 13.3.4 Interim Conclusion -- 13.4 Reconciling Economic Freedoms and Fundamental Social Rights, the Viking Conundrum -- 13.4.1 Introduction and Scene Setter -- 13.4.2 Possible Ways Envisaged to Resolve the Viking Conundrum -- 13.4.3 Possible Alternatives -- 13.4.4 Interim Conclusion -- 13.5 Social Europe Matters - Giving Teeth to the EU's Social Dimension -- 14 The Basis in EU Constitutional Law for Further Social Integration -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The EU Constitutional Framework Governing Further Social Integration -- 14.2.1 The Place of Social Policy in European Integration.
14.2.2 Specific and General Legal Bases.
Summary: Today, many people believe that the EU lacks solidarity and needs a social dimension. Why is this? What does it mean? Is it viable? This book provides an in-depth examination of the arguments for, and the feasibility of, a European Social Union, incorporating economic, social, philosophical, legal, and political perspectives.
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Cover -- Half-title -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Preface -- Table of Cases -- Summaries of Key Court Cases -- Part I Solidarity and Legitimacy -- 1 The Idea of a European Social Union: A Normative Introduction -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 The Incomplete Monetary Union -- 1.2.1 Traditional Textbook Analysis Revisited -- 1.2.2 Automatic Stabilisers in a Multi-Tiered Polity -- 1.2.3 Wage Coordination and the Social Model -- 1.2.4 Preliminary Conclusions -- 1.3 Integration and Social Regulation in the EU28: A Balancing Act -- 1.3.1 Free Movement and the Spectre of Social Dumping -- 1.3.2 Reconciling Openness and Domestic Cohesion -- 1.4 The Founding Fathers' Inspiration and the Meaning of Justice and Solidarity -- 1.4.1 Setting the Scene: The Founding Fathers' Social Inspiration -- 1.4.2 Normative Foundations in Contemporary Theories of Justice -- 1.4.2.1 Responsibility, Insurance, and Distribution -- 1.4.2.2 The Boundaries of Justice -- 1.4.3 Supranational Justice, Subsidiarity and Openness -- 1.4.3.1 Two Observations on Global Justice and the Organisation of Interpersonal Solidarity -- 1.4.3.2 Is Upward Convergence Sufficient? -- 1.4.4 The Normative Puzzle -- 1.5 Conditions for Upward Convergence and Social Investment -- 1.6 Conclusions -- 2 The European Social Union: A Missing but Necessary 'Political Good' -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 What is 'Social Europe'? -- 2.3 Towards a European Social Union (ESU): The Substantive Agenda -- 2.4 The Justification of a Social Union: Some Normative Proposals -- 2.5 The Social Union as a Political Good -- 2.6 Conclusion -- 3 The Solidarity Argument for the European Union -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 The European Decoupling of the Redistributing Community from the National Community.

3.2.1 The Nation-State Couples the Nation and the State -- 3.2.2 State Matters Are Increasingly Detached from the Nation -- 3.2.3 The Liberal Nationalist Response: Between Solidarity-Limiting and Solidarity-Creating -- 3.2.4 European Redistribution -- 3.2.5 Difficulties -- 3.2.6 Strategic Levellism and Ideological Levellism -- 3.3 Recoupling the National and the Redistributing Community -- 3.4 Conclusion -- 4 Social Justice in an Ever More Diverse Union -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Structuring the Argument -- 4.3 Back to Age-Old Beginnings: The Legacy of Classical Private International Law and Europe's Foundational Dilemma -- 4.3.1 Savigny's International Private Legal Ordering and the Unruliness of Interstate Relations -- 4.3.2 Social Justice through Political Democracy: The Example of Hermann Heller's 'Social Rechtsstaat' -- 4.4 The EEC in the Age of 'Embedded Liberalism' -- 4.5 'Social Regulation' and the Problems with a European 'Social Market Economy' -- 4.5.1 Social Regulation in the EU -- 4.5.2 Social Justice through a 'Highly Competitive Social Market Economy' -- 4.5.3 The Internal Market as 'Social Market' and the Idea of 'Conflicts-Law Constitutionalism' -- 4.6 EMU as an Irresolvable Diagonal Conflict Constellation -- 4.7 From 'Integration through Law' via 'Crisis Law' to Technocratic Rule and Authoritarian Managerialism -- 4.8 Epilogue: 'There Must be Some Way Out of Here' -- 5 The Democratic Legitimacy of EU Institutions and Support for Social Policy in Europe -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 Preferences about Social Security Policy -- 5.3 Data -- 5.4 Operationalisation -- 5.4.1 Support for Social Security on the EU Level -- 5.4.2 Self-Interest, In-Group Solidarity, Institutional Trust -- 5.4.3 Control Variables -- 5.5 Analyses -- 5.5.1 Levels of Support for Social Security on the EU Level.

5.5.2 Explaining Support for Social Security on the EU Level -- 5.6 Discussion -- 5.7 Appendix -- Part II Topics in European Governance -- 6 The Impact of Eurozone Governance on Welfare State Stability -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Euro Area Imbalances and Divergence -- 6.2.1 Core and Periphery in the EU and the Eurozone -- 6.2.2 The Social Impact of the Crisis and the Crisis Response -- 6.3 The Origin of Divergence -- 6.4 Policy Response to Euro Area Imbalances: EMU Reform -- 6.4.1 The Pursuit of Better Governance -- 6.4.2 Launched: Banking Union and Investment Plan -- 6.4.3 Outstanding: Fiscal Capacity and Shock Absorption -- 6.5 Euro Area Unemployment Insurance under Consideration -- 6.5.1 Options for Fiscal Stabilisation Instruments -- 6.5.2 The Added Value of Eurozone Unemployment Insurance -- 6.5.3 Institutional Requirements and Political Feasibility -- 6.6 Conclusions -- 7 Booms, Busts and the Governance of the Eurozone -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Standard OCA Theory and the Governance of the Eurozone -- 7.3 Governance of a Monetary Union in the Face of Temporary Shocks -- 7.4 The Nature of Shocks in the Eurozone: Empirical Evidence -- 7.5 What Kind of Flexibility -- 7.6 Implications for the Governance of the Eurozone -- 7.6.1 Common Unemployment Insurance -- 7.6.2 National Stabilisation? -- 7.7 Completing the Monetary Union with Political Union -- 7.7.1 The European Commission and Political Union -- 7.7.2 Bureaucratic versus Political Integration -- 7.8 Conclusion -- 7.9 Appendix -- 8 What Follows Austerity? From Social Pillar to New Deal -- 8.1 Introduction -- 8.2 How We Got Here: European Social Policy in Retrospect -- 8.3 The European Pillar of Social Rights: Potential and Limits -- 8.3.1 The Rationale of the Pillar -- 8.3.2 The Role of the Social Pillar within the Wider Framework of EMU -- 8.3.2.1 Wage Determination.

8.3.2.2 Employment Protection Laws (EPL) -- 8.3.3 The Scope of the Social Pillar -- 8.3.4 Mechanisms for Delivering the Social Pillar -- 8.3.5 Assessment -- 8.4 Towards a European New Deal? -- 8.5 Conclusion -- 9 Social Dialogue: Why It Matters - European Employers' Perspective -- 9.1 Introduction -- 9.2 History of the EU Social Dialogue -- 9.2.1 Lessons Learned -- 9.3 EU Social Partnership and Dialogue in the Twenty-First Century -- 9.3.1 Work Programmes -- 9.3.2 Labour-Market Analyses -- 9.3.3 EU Economic Governance Process, European Semester -- 9.4 EU Sectoral Social Dialogue -- 9.5 Social Dialogue at Company Level - European Works Councils -- 9.6 A Diverse and Ever-Evolving National Social Dialogue and the Link to the EU Social Dialogue -- 9.7 Conclusion -- 10 The European Social Dialogue: What Is the Role of Employers and What Are the Hopes for the Future? -- 10.1 Introduction -- 10.2 The Major Milestones of the ESD -- 10.3 The Strategies of the Actors -- 10.4 A New Dynamic in Desperate Times -- 10.5 What Challenges Lie Ahead? -- 10.6 Conclusion -- 11 The European Semester Process: Adaptability and Latitude in Support of the European Social Model -- 11.1 Introduction -- 11.2 The European Semester and its Soft-Law Roots -- 11.3 The European Semester as a Hybrid Governance Structure -- 11.3.1 Analytical Framework -- 11.4 The European Semester: Adapting its Goals to New Priorities and Country-Specific Challenges -- 11.4.1 Unemployment -- 11.4.2 Wages -- 11.4.3 Pension System -- 11.5 National Responses to EU-Level Socioeconomic Targets -- 11.5.1 Ideas on the Nature of Sound Socioeconomic Policies -- 11.5.2 Conflicting Views on Calculation Methods and Reform Effects -- 11.5.3 Legitimacy and Democracy -- 11.5.4 National Governments Cannot Influence Everything -- 11.6 Conclusion.

12 Balancing Economic Objectives and Social Considerations in the new EU Investment... -- 12.1 Introduction -- 12.2 Balancing FDI and Social Considerations under the Founding Treaties of the EU -- 12.3 Social Considerations and the New European International Investment Policy -- 12.4 The Social Considerations in the New EU Investment Agreements -- 12.4.1 EU-South Korea FTA -- 12.4.2 EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement -- 12.4.3 EU-Vietnam FTA -- 12.4.4 Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership -- 12.4.5 Procedural Aspects of the Balance between Economic and Social Considerations -- 12.4.6 Appraisal -- 12.5 Conclusions -- Part III Legal and Institutional Challenges -- 13 How Can the Viking/Laval Conundrum Be Resolved? Balancing the Economic and the Social: One Bed for Two Dreams? -- 13.1 Introduction -- 13.2 The Relationship between the Social and Economic Dimension of Economic Integration in the EU... -- 13.3 Laval's Regulatory Conundrum: Collective Standard-Setting Implications for Posted.... -- 13.3.1 Scene Setter: The Regulatory Framework of the Posting of Workers Directive -- 13.3.2 Laval: Collective Standard-setting in EU Perspective -- 13.3.3 The Existential Question: Is There a Laval's Regulatory Conundrum with... -- 13.3.4 Interim Conclusion -- 13.4 Reconciling Economic Freedoms and Fundamental Social Rights, the Viking Conundrum -- 13.4.1 Introduction and Scene Setter -- 13.4.2 Possible Ways Envisaged to Resolve the Viking Conundrum -- 13.4.3 Possible Alternatives -- 13.4.4 Interim Conclusion -- 13.5 Social Europe Matters - Giving Teeth to the EU's Social Dimension -- 14 The Basis in EU Constitutional Law for Further Social Integration -- 14.1 Introduction -- 14.2 The EU Constitutional Framework Governing Further Social Integration -- 14.2.1 The Place of Social Policy in European Integration.

14.2.2 Specific and General Legal Bases.

Today, many people believe that the EU lacks solidarity and needs a social dimension. Why is this? What does it mean? Is it viable? This book provides an in-depth examination of the arguments for, and the feasibility of, a European Social Union, incorporating economic, social, philosophical, legal, and political perspectives.

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