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Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes

This book examines how and to what extent the European Employment Strategy and the Open Method of Coordination (OMC) on Social Protection and Social Inclusion have influenced national labour market and social welfare policies.

Focusing on the implementation of the OMC in different national environments, this book examines how the proposals and targets of the OMC are interpreted and implemented within the context of existing national employment and welfare regimes. At a theoretical level and on the basis of national case studies, the book considers how OMC objectives, guidelines, targets, and recommendations may reshape the domestic institutional framework, how learning and participation of governmental bodies are organized across different hierarchical levels, and how non-state actors may be involved in the formulation and implementation of national reform plans. The authors conclude that the OMC has contributed significantly to both substantive and procedural reforms, in spite of the many institutional barriers to Europeanization in this policy area.

Featuring comparative case studies across a number of European states, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of sociology, political science, public policy, and international relations.

Martin Heidenreich is Founding Director of the Jean-Monnet Centre of Europeanization and Transnational Regulations and Jean-Monnet-Professor of European Studies in Social Sciences at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.

Jonathan Zeitlin is Founding Director of the European Union Center of Excellence and Professor of Sociology, Public Affairs, Political Science, and History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.

Routledge/EUI Studies in the Political Economy of Welfare

Series editors: Martin Rhodes & 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 programmespensions, health, social security
• the changing political cleavages in welfare politics
• policy convergence and social policy innovation
• the impact of globalisation

1. Immigration and Welfare
   Challenging the Borders of the Welfare State
   Edited by Michael Bommes & Andrew Geddes
   
2. Renegotiating the Welfare State
   Flexible Adjustment through Corporatist Concertation
   Edited by Frans van Waarden & Gerhard Lehmbruch
   
3. Comparing Welfare Capitalism
   Social Policy and Political Economy in Europe, Japan and the USA
   Edited by Bernhard Ebbinghaus & Philip Manow
   
4. Controlling a New Migration World
   Edited by Virginie Giraudon and Christian Joppke
   
5. The Moral Economy of Welfare States
   Britain and Germany Compared
   Steffen Mau
   
6. Welfare State Reform in Southern Europe
   Fighting Poverty and Social Exclusion in Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece
   Edited by Maurizio Ferrera
   
7. Normative Foundations of the Welfare State
   The Nordic Experience
   Edited by Nanna Kildal and Stein Kuhnle
   
8. Regulating New Forms of Employment
   Local Experiments and Social Innovation in Europe
   Edited by Ida Regalia
   
9. The Politics of Post-Industrial Welfare States
   Adapting post-war social policies to new social risks
   Edited by Klaus Armingeon and Giuliano Bonoli
   
10. Pension Reform in Europe
    Politics, policies and outcomes
    Edited by Camila Arza and Martin Kohli
    
11. Pension Politics
    Consensus and social conflict in ageing societies
    Patrik Marier
    
12. Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes
    The influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms
    Edited by Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin

Changing European Employment and Welfare Regimes

The influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms

Edited by
Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin

First published 2009
by Routledge
2 Park Square Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN

Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada
by Routledge
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This edition published in the Taylor & Francis e-Library, 2009.

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2009 Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin selection and editorial matter; individual contributors, their contributions

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.

British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Changing European employment and welfare regimes : the influence of the open method of coordination on national reforms / edited by Martin Heidenreich and Jonathan Zeitlin.
p. cm.(Routledge/EUI studies in the political economy of welfare ; 12)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Manpower policyEuropean Union countries. 2. European Union countriesEconomic policy. I. Heidenreich, Martin. II. Zeitlin, Jonathan.
HD5713.6.E85C43 2009
331.1094dc22
2008047311

ISBN 0-203-87887-6 Master e-book ISBN

ISBN 978-0-415-48278-3 (hbk)
ISBN 978-0-203-87887-3 (ebk)

Illustrations

Figures

International learning, policy chains and convergence

Long-term unemployment rates

Convergence in different steps of the policy-making process

Potential outcomes

Tables

Conceptualising supranational influence on national policies

Objectives of the Employment and Social OMCs

Unemployment benefit reforms in Belgium, Finland, the Netherlands, and the UK, 19902006

Cases of direct impact from the EES

Acknowledgements

This book originated in a conference held at the University of Bamberg in February 2007, with financial support from the Jean Monnet Chair programme of the European Union. From that conference, the editors selected the most promising papers and then recruited additional contributions from other authors in order to secure a broad coverage of countries, policy issues, and theoretical approaches. All of the chapters have been extensively revised in response to comments from the editors and the other contributors. The result, we believe, is much more than a conventional conference volume, though it is deliberately designed as a conversation among authors with distinct but intersecting perspectives rather than as the product of a unified research project based on a common theoretical framework.

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