Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU
In the field of anti-poverty policies, the interplay between the Europe 2020 overarching strategy and the Semester have marked major discontinuity vis--vis the Open Method of Coordination for social protection and social inclusion (Social OMC) of the Lisbon phase. This book therefore asks whether and how Europe matters in the fight against poverty and social exclusion by assessing the emergence and possible institutionalisation of a European multi-level, multi-stakeholder and integrated policy arena in the new institutional framework.
Supranational developments, multi-level interactions, as well as the strategy effects at the national level are analysed in six European countries Belgium, Germany, Italy, Poland, UK and Sweden with the aim to identify the key factors affecting the implementation of the Europe 2020 anti-poverty strategy.
This book will be of key interest to students, scholars and practitioners in social policy, political science and European governance, and more broadly to European Union politics, European integrations studies, sociology and economics.
Matteo Jessoula is Associate Professor of Political Science at Department of Social and Political Sciences of the University of Milan. He is also Director of the Welfare Laboratory, Director of the International Observatory on Social Cohesion and Inclusion, Coordinator of LPF-Comparative Politics and Public Philosophy Lab and National coordinator within ESPN-European Social Policy Network.
Ilaria Madama is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Milan in the Department of Social and Political Sciences. She is also Senior Researcher in the ERC-REScEU project, Coordinator of the EuVisions Observatory and Coordinator of the minor degree in Rights, Work and Equal Opportunities (DiLPO).
Routledge Studies in the Political Economy of Welfare
Series editors:
Martin Rhodes
University of Denver, USA
and
Maurizio Ferrera
The European University Institute, Florence, Italy
This series presents leading edge research on the recasting of European welfare states. The series is interdisciplinary, featuring contributions from experts in economics, political science and social policy. The books provide a comparative analysis of topical issues, including:
reforms of the major social programmes pensions, health, social security
the changing political cleavages in welfare politics
policy convergence and social policy innovation
the impact of globalisation
The Role of Business in the Development of the Welfare State and Labor Markets in Germany
Containing Social Reforms
Thomas Paster
Politics of Segmentation
Party Competition and Social Protection in Europe
Georg Picot
Pension Reforms in Central, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
From Post-Socialist Transition to the Global Financial Crisis
Igor Guardiancich
The Politics of Welfare State Transformation in Germany
Still a Semi-Sovereign State?
Christof Schiller
The Politics of Work-Family Policy Reforms in Germany and Italy
Agnes Blome
Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU
A Chance in Europe 2020
Edited by Matteo Jessoula and Ilaria Madama
Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in the EU
A Chance in Europe 2020
Edited by Matteo Jessoula and Ilaria Madama
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Contents
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Contributors
Chiara Agostini is Researcher at the Percorsi di Secondo Welfare Observatory, based at Centro di Ricerca e Documentazione Luigi Einaudi in Turin.
Daniel Clegg is Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Director of the Graduate School of Social and Political Science at the University of Edinburgh.
Matteo Jessoula is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.
Hkan Johansson is Professor of Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Lund.
Ilaria Madama is Associate Professor of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.
Marcello Natili is Post-Doc Research Fellow of Political Science in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Milan.
Norbert Petzold is Researcher in the Department of Social Sciences at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg.
Sebastiano Sabato is Researcher at the European Social Observatory (OSE) in Brussels.
Antonino Sorrenti is PhD Candidate in Political Studies at the Network for the Advancement of Social and Political Studies (NASP) based at the University of Milan.
Marianna Zieleska is Assistant Professor in the Institute of Sociology at the University of Warsaw.
Katharina Zimmermann is Researcher in the Institut fr Sozialwissenschaften at the Humboldt-University of Berlin.
Acknowledgements
The book presents the results of a collective work in the framework of the COPE Combating poverty in Europe: re-organizing active inclusion through participatory and integrated modes of multilevel governance project (Grant Agreement no. 290488), funded by the European Commission 7th Framework Programme. The project, involving an international research team with members from six European universities, was launched in 2012 and coordinated by Martin Heidenreich from the University of Oldenburg.
The editors warmly thank the contributors for their commitment to this project, and all participants at the seminars and conferences organised during the project period for their useful comments on earlier versions of this book. We would also like to thank the two anonymous reviewers for providing us with highly constructive suggestions.
