Welfare Markets in Europe

The Democratic Challenge of European Integration

Crespy Amandine

Welfare Markets in Europe The Democratic Challenge of European Integration

This book explores the European welfare model, arguing that the rollout of European policies for welfare services has led to increased marketization. The author argues that the rise of profit-making in utilities, transport, child and health care is exacerbating rather than reducing inequalities among citizens, demonstrating how the marketization of European welfare has taken place over successive rounds of policymaking for European integration. These rounds have motivated national level public services reform, as well as contestation over these measures from civil society groups. The study traces the developments of policymaking at EU level since the late 1980s, offers in-depth studies of contentious debates which have sealed the fate of welfare services at the turn of the century, and offers insights on the problems involved with prolonged austerity in Europe. This book therefore shows how European integration is provoking a democratic challenge to what kind of Europe citizens want.

Type Book
Identificateur urn:isbn:9781137571038
Language En
Length 263 p.
Themes
  • Europe as an Area of Economic and Social Regulation
  • Europe as a Community of Norms and Values
Discipline(s)
  • Sciences sociales
  • Intégration et coopération européenne
Publisher Palgrave Macmillan
Publication date 2016
Keywords
  • European Union, welfare, public services, contentious politics
ULB Institutional Reference http://hdl.handle.net/2013/ULB-DIPOT:oai:dipot.ulb.ac.be:2013/222645