When elective affinities foster Europeanization: How the EU active welfare state model and national policies for controlling the unemployed reinforced each other (1997-2005)

This paper advocates the use of a Weberian framework in the analysis of the processes of Europeanization of public policies. It focuses on employment policies to explore the "elective affinities" between the European Employment Strategy launched in 1997 and the subsequent elaboration of na...

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Main Author: Vincent Dubois
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Collegium of Socio-Economics, SGH Warsaw School of Economics 2020-10-01
Series:Studia z Polityki Publicznej
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Online Access:https://econjournals.sgh.waw.pl/KSzPP/article/view/2466
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Summary:This paper advocates the use of a Weberian framework in the analysis of the processes of Europeanization of public policies. It focuses on employment policies to explore the "elective affinities" between the European Employment Strategy launched in 1997 and the subsequent elaboration of national reforms reorganizing and strengthening monitoring, surveillance, and sanctions of the unemployed. From this perspective, Europeanization is defined as mutual reinforcement between European policy frames and national reforms than a top-down unilateral relationship of influence.
ISSN:2391-6389
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