Download or read book Concurrence et protection sociale en Europe written by Patrick Hassenteufel and published by PU Rennes. This book was released on 2004 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Concilier la libre concurrence et la protection sociale est aujourd'hui l'un des enjeux clefs de l'intégration européenne. La réalisation d'un grand marché européen signifie-t-elle le démantèlement des systèmes de protection sociale existants ? La convergence européenne en matière de politiques sociales et sanitaires ne peut-elle prendre que la voie de la libéralisation ? Cet ouvrage apporte des réponses à ces questions fondamentales pour l'avenir des États providence européens.
Download or read book Les syst mes de protection sociale en Europe written by Jean-Pierre Dumont and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Une étude comparative des systèmes de protection sociale dans la CEE. A l'aide de tableaux et de graphiques, l'auteur étudie les diverses sortes d'assurances, de mutuelles et de régimes de sécurité sociale dans les 15 pays de la Communauté.
Download or read book La protection sociale en Europe written by Arnaud Lechevalier and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 638 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Les travaux synthétisés ici trouvent leur source dans l'inscription temporelle et territoriale des dispositifs publics de protection sociale dans les pays de l'Union européenne. Ces recherches s'inscrivent dans un champ qui est celui de l'économie de la protection sociale. La démarche qui y préside est cependant, premièrement, ouverte à l'interdisciplinarité et, deuxièmement, au pluralisme méthodologique (approches historique, nomologique et comparative). La prise ne compte de la dimension temporelle s'est traduite par l'investigation de deux champs : la prise en charge publique d'un nouveau risque social -la dépendance- et celui de la coopération à l'échelle intergénérationnelle que mettent en jeux les réformes des régimes de retraites, appréhendées sous l'angle de l'équité intergénérationnelle. L'exploitation des enjeux pour les systèmes de protection sociale de recomposition supra et infra nationaux des territoires a été, de son côté, conduite sous deux angles. Le premier a trait à l'analyse économique des transformations des systèmes allemand et français de protection sociale, dont on peut comprendre le fonctionnement à partir d'une matrice historiquement commune : le modèle d'assurance du revenu salarial. Le second champ d'investigation de la dimension territoriale concerne les relations d'interdépendance entre la dynamique des systèmes de protection sociale et les systèmes fédéraux. Deux cas polaires ont fait l'objet d'investigation : le fédéralisme intraétatique et redistributif allemand, d'une part, et le fédéralisme interétatique centré sur le marché à l'oeuvre dans l'Union européenne, d'autre part.
Download or read book La crise de la protection sociale en Europe written by Pierre-Yves Chanu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L'Union européenne traverse aujourd'hui une crise profonde. Tant ses institutions que le modèle économique d'intégration par le marché sur lequel elle a fondé sa construction se voient contestés, tandis que la montée du chômage et de la pauvreté pose la question sociale avec de plus en plus d'insistance. C'est la raison pour laquelle les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont choisi de se pencher sur les évolutions de la protection sociale au sein de l'Union européenne. Si les systèmes de sécurité sociale relèvent exclusivement de la souveraineté des États, de nombreux travaux mettent cependant en lumière l'européanisation à l'oeuvre dans ce domaine et les politiques d'austérité actuelles tendent à faire des systèmes sociaux une variable d'ajustement, oubliant rapidement le rôle essentiel de stabilisateur qu'ils ont joué en début de crise. Les textes rassemblés dans cet ouvrage ont été écrits par des chercheurs et des syndicalistes. Ils interrogent à la fois l'influence de l'Union européenne sur les systèmes nationaux de protection sociale et les transformations à l'oeuvre en période de crise. Ils analysent les conséquences de la nouvelle « gouvernance économique européenne » sur les systèmes de sécurité sociale ainsi que celles des « quatre libertés » fondatrices du marché unique sur les droits sociaux nationaux. Leurs enseignements sont sans concession et confirment les faiblesses de l'Europe sociale. Pour autant, des solutions existent et une autre voie est possible. Dans le contexte actuel de globalisation économique, l'Europe doit porter un projet social ambitieux, remettant la notion de solidarité au coeur de ses priorités et se rapprochant ainsi de ses citoyens.
Download or read book La concurrence r glementaire sociale et fiscale dans l Union europ enne written by and published by . This book was released on 2016-11-29 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La libéralisation du commerce mondial, vecteur de globalisation, a entraîné une mise en concurrence des systèmes juridiques en laissant aux destinataires des règles, et en particulier les opérateurs économiques, la possibilité d'optimiser leur rattachement à un système juridique et donc leur soumission à un corpus normatif donné. La globalisation a créé un marché global du droit sans gouvernement mondial pour en assurer la régulation. Au sein de l'Union européenne, cette concurrence des systèmes juridiques n'aurait pas dû être. Certes, l'intégration européenne vise à la libéralisation des échanges en créant un espace sans frontières à l'intérieur duquel les personnes, les services, les biens et les capitaux doivent pouvoir circuler sans restriction et discrimination. Mais en même temps, l'Union européenne dispose de compétences d'harmonisation visant à rapprocher les législations nationales. Autrement dit, les inconvénients résultant de la libéralisation auraient pu être compensés par une harmonisation des droits nationaux. Tel ne fut pas le cas. Non seulement cette harmonisation n'est que partielle, et certains domaines névralgiques (fiscalité, droit du travail, protection sociale) y échappent très largement, mais en plus les institutions de l'Union, au premier titre desquelles la Cour de justice, ont vu dans la concurrence normative entre les Etats, un instrument libéral d'intégration à l'instar de ce qui s'est passé aux Etats-Unis entre les Etats fédérés à partir des années 1930. La libre circulation permet aux opérateurs économiques de mettre en concurrence les systèmes juridiques qui y répondent, en l'absence d'harmonisation, en réduisant leur niveau de prélèvement ou de réglementation pour demeurer ou redevenir "compétitifs", au risque de fragiliser l'unité de l'intégration et la coopération loyale entre les Etats. Se développe ainsi une course vers le bas ("race to the bottom") et émergent des pratiques de dumping social ou fiscal. Dans un contexte de crise économique, entretenant une crise budgétaire dans de nombreux Etats européens, on assiste à de nouvelles demandes de régulation de ces pratiques. Cet ouvrage a pour objet de mieux comprendre, dans le cadre de l'Union européenne, ce phénomène tant d'un point de vue théorique que pratique. Les contributions ici rassemblées se proposent d'identifier ce phénomène, d'en mesurer la portée et les possibilités de régulation dans les différents domaines du droit de l'Union (droit des sociétés, droit fiscal, droit social, libre circulation des personnes, environnement...). Il propose une étude de la mécanique de ces pratiques de concurrence normative en identifiant et déconstruisant les pratiques des opérateurs économiques. Une attention particulière est portée à la concurrence sociale et fiscale.
Download or read book La crise de la protection sociale en Europe written by Pierre-Yves Chanu and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: L’Union européenne traverse aujourd’hui une crise profonde. Tant ses institutions que le modèle économique d’intégration par le marché sur lequel elle a fondé sa construction se voient contestés, tandis que la montée du chômage et de la pauvreté pose la question sociale avec de plus en plus d’insistance. C’est la raison pour laquelle les auteurs de cet ouvrage ont choisi de se pencher sur les évolutions de la protection sociale au sein de l’Union européenne. Si les systèmes de sécurité sociale relèvent exclusivement de la souveraineté des États, de nombreux travaux mettent cependant en lumière l’européanisation à l’oeuvre dans ce domaine et les politiques d’austérité actuelles tendent à faire des systèmes sociaux une variable d’ajustement, oubliant rapidement le rôle essentiel de stabilisateur qu’ils ont joué en début de crise. Les textes rassemblés dans cet ouvrage ont été écrits par des chercheurs et des syndicalistes. Ils interrogent à la fois l’influence de l’Union européenne sur les systèmes nationaux de protection sociale et les transformations à l’oeuvre en période de crise. Ils analysent les conséquences de la nouvelle « gouvernance économique européenne » sur les systèmes de sécurité sociale ainsi que celles des « quatre libertés » fondatrices du marché unique sur les droits sociaux nationaux. Leurs enseignements sont sans concession et confirment les faiblesses de l’Europe sociale. Pour autant, des solutions existent et une autre voie est possible. Dans le contexte actuel de globalisation économique, l’Europe doit porter un projet social ambitieux, remettant la notion de solidarité au coeur de ses priorités et se rapprochant ainsi de ses citoyens.
Download or read book The European Social Model and Transitional Labour Markets written by Ralf Rogowski and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bringing together theoretical, empirical and comparative perspectives on the European Social Model (ESM) and transitional labour market policy, this volume contains theoretical accounts of the ESM and a discussion of policy implications for European social and employment policies that derive from research on transitional labour markets. It provides an economic as well as legal assessment of the European Employment Strategy and contains evaluations of new forms of governance both in European and member state policies, including discussions of the potential and limits of soft law instruments. Country studies of labour market reforms in Denmark, the Netherlands, Belgium and France assess their contribution to an emerging ESM, while comparative accounts of the ESM examine mobility and security patterns in Europe and beyond and evaluate recent 'flexicurity' policies from a global perspective.
Download or read book Private Health Insurance and the European Union written by Cyril Benoît and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-12-03 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research has paid little attention to date on how European Union law and regulation affect both the public-private mix in healthcare and the organization of private health insurance as an industry. Filling this gap, this collective book provides insights on the political economy of EU insurance regulation, its impact on private health insurers and on its interactions with domestic healthcare policy-making in four countries. Assembling original contributions drafted by a multidisciplinary team, Private Health Insurance and the European Union offers a thorough examination of a largely unrecognized source of EU influence in healthcare – and sheds a new light on the role played by private actors in social policy. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.
Download or read book The European Union s Roles in International Politics written by Ole Elgström and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2006-08-21 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume sets out explicitly and systematically to bring together the two strands of political science– the study of the EU’s international activities, and IR theory – and thus to make a significant original contribution to a developing literature. It provides both a conceptual and empirical argument, the volume provides an innovative perspective on the analysis of the European Union as an international actor, and on the ways in which EU actions are formed and have impact. The volume deals with a number of topical issues in such areas as human rights, global governance and the roles of international organizations. It offers a research agenda based on rigorous development of the framework for role analysis, and demonstrates the ways in which this agenda might be furthered.
Download or read book EBOOK The Politics Of European Union Health Policies written by Scott Greer and published by McGraw-Hill Education (UK). This book was released on 2009-06-16 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Scott Greer has done a remarkable job in explaining how the Europeanization of health policy takes place, how institutional legacies exert an influence in lobbying, how harmonization exacerbates path-dependent welfare structures that in turn impede a 'race to the bottom', and why the idea of a European social model creates positive external effects, even if it is a only an ad hoc policy construction." Journal of European Social Policy 2010 20 (2) "Provides an original and thought-provoking perspective and approach, combining in-depth theoretical discussions and well-researched case studies over 11 chapters...The book is well written and insightful, and the main argument is that EU law and policy developments - directly and indirectly - have the potential of undermining domestic health systems and the political actors within them."Journal of Common Market Studies, 2010 Volume 48. Number 3 "This book provides a unique insight into what is going on, unnoticed by most, 'below the surface' in EU health policy. It serves as a wake-up call for those who continue to believe that the EU is of marginal interest and relevance in national level debates about the direction of health care. In addition, in an engaging and lively style, it provides essential guidance for students of health policy who seek to understand the labyrinthine processes and the wide ranging unintended consequences - for good and for bad - of EU policy making." Professor Naomi Chambers, Head of Health Policy and Management, Manchester Business School “In this insightful book, Scott Greer describes how European health policy has long been developed in a secret garden, where a small number of people find pragmatic solutions to immediate problems while avoiding the fundamental questions … Yet the logic of European integration is tearing down the garden's walls, creating a public park where pragmatism takes second place to principles. Something must be done, but it is not clear what. Greer's book will be essential reading … for anyone who is responsible for organising how health care is delivered in Europe.” Martin McKee CBE, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, UK This important new book explains how European Union (EU) developed policies shape and constrain health services. It answers the key questions asked of EU health policy: What is it? Why did it happen? What does it take to influence it and how can it be changed? Using extensive new data, Greer discusses how EU policy is influenced by lobbies in Brussels and by four big member states: France, Germany, Spain and the United Kingdom. Shaping EU health policy takes information, coordination, nimbleness and focus. The book examines the ways that the successful health lobbies and member states work, identifies weaknesses, and emphasizes the challenge to health policymakers: if they do not influence EU health policies, they will lose influence over their own health systems. The Politics of European Union Health Policies will be of great interest to students and academics of EU policy and politics, as well as health policy makers.
Download or read book Employment Policies and Multilevel Governance written by Roger Blanpain and published by Kluwer Law International B.V.. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Europe, work has long been a symbol of full citizenship and today work is a fundamental goal of European social policy. However, although every person has the ‘right’ to work, it is becoming clearer all the time that unemployment is not due merely to a lack of encouragement to exercise this right, but (at least in part) to some deeper defects in the implementation of effective employment policies. As a contribution to defining the nature of these problems this important collection of essays targets the phenomena of multilevel governance, both vertical (European, national, regional, local) and horizontal (administrative institutions, trade unions, business representatives, NGOs), showing, with detailed analysis and data, how coordination or conflict between the various levels advances, or fails to advance, the goals of employment policy. Regarding the EU, five EU Member States are examined– plus, for comparative analysis, the parallel Canadian federal model – with the authors addressing such concrete issues as: the impact of globalisation and Europeanisation on employment policies; distribution of tasks in the Open Method of Coordination (OMC); involvement of private and economic agents; the increasing significance of international political agents; flexicurity as an employment strategy; the difficulty of integrating the excluded; coordination with education and fiscal policies; social inclusion from the point of view of international human rights; and gender ‘mainstreaming’ as a weakening of the EU guarantee of gender equality. The essays originated in a research meeting held at the Instituto Internacional de Sociología Jurídica at Oñati (Spain) in June of 2007. Some of the contributors, all employment law experts, discuss problematic aspects of the European Employment Strategy (EES) and its influence on the decentralization of employment policies and related elements of social protection. Other authors concentrate on ‘built-in’ multilevel problems resulting from existing constitutional and administrative structures, while a third group focuses on substantive approaches to employment policies within individual member states. The Bulletin contains updated versions of all papers. In this book the degree of administrative, legal, political, and cultural intricacy involved in a serious engagement with multilevel governance of employment on the European model is put on full view. As a deeply informed analysis of how the idea of multilevel governance has played out within the political and administrative reality of Member States, the book will prove of enormous value to labour and employment law professionals anywhere, as the problems identified here have a global reach.
Download or read book The EU s Government of Worker Mobility written by Hélène Michel and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-16 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together the expertise of economists, legal scholars, political scientists, and sociologists in order to integrate diverse perspectives and a broad range of analytical tools in the conceptualisation of labour mobility. It examines how variably the question of labour mobility has translated into the policies, laws, and norms through which the EU as a whole is governed. The contributions focus on the actors – European and national officials, experts, trade union and employers’ organisations – and on instruments implemented by institutions and political organisations – European Agency, coordination systems, European Job Mobility Portal (EURES) – to increase and support mobility within the European Union. This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European/EU studies, migration studies, labour studies, political sociology, and more broadly to comparative politics.
Download or read book European Civil Service in Times of Crisis written by Didier Georgakakis and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book, part of the new wave of political sociology in EU studies, examines the dialectics of construction/deconstruction of the European civil service through a succession of empirically grounded case studies. Breaking with the usual representations of ‘Eurocrats’, it sheds light on a hidden aspect of the current European crisis: a crisis of social reproduction which affects the European civil service in a heavy context of management reforms, enlargements, institutional changes and the euro crisis. This in turn has a number of consequences in terms of internal tensions, power, and more broadly, the capacity of EU institutions to create convergence between diverging national and economic interests, and to embody a European future. European Civil Service in (Times of) Crisis will be of interest to students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including politics, sociology and public administration, to practitioners working in and with the EU institutions, as well as those wishing to know more about the EU.
Download or read book Europeanization written by P. Graziano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-11-28 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This cutting-edge handbook, written by foremost authoritative scholars, presents the main theoretical and empirical issues involved in current Europeanization research. It evaluates the achievements and shortcomings of the growing literature. As an advanced reference book it also sets the parameters for Europeanization research in the coming years.
Download or read book Differential Diagnoses written by Paul V. Dutton and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2012-11-07 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. With health care spending only expected to increase, Americans are again debating new ideas for expanding coverage and cutting costs. According to the historian Paul V. Dutton, Americans should look to France, whose health care system captured the World Health Organization's number-one spot. In Differential Diagnoses, Dutton debunks a common misconception among Americans that European health care systems are essentially similar to each other and vastly different from U.S. health care. In fact, the Americans and the French both distrust "socialized medicine." Both peoples cherish patient choice, independent physicians, medical practice freedoms, and private insurers in a qualitatively different way than the Canadians, the British, and many others. The United States and France have struggled with the same ideals of liberty and equality, but one country followed a path that led to universal health insurance; the other embraced private insurers and has only guaranteed coverage for the elderly and the very poor. How has France reconciled the competing ideals of individual liberty and social equality to assure universal coverage while protecting patient and practitioner freedoms? What can Americans learn from the French experience, and what can the French learn from the U.S. example? Differential Diagnoses answers these questions by comparing how employers, labor unions, insurers, political groups, the state, and medical professionals have shaped their nations' health care systems from the early years of the twentieth century to the present day.
Download or read book Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion written by Eberhard Kienle and published by Saqi. This book was released on 2013-10-04 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The promotion of political reform, participation, human rights and democracy on the southern and eastern shores of the Mediterranean was a key objective for the European Union as it prepared the Barcelona conference in 1995. Today it is clear that these policies have failed to prompt an end to authoritarian rule. The authors of Democracy Building and Democracy Erosion analyse why EU policies have not produced major political impact, while remaining sensitive to changes that may translate into greater participation and respect for civil liberties. The question at the heart of this volume is whether the erosion of democracy in the north, compounded by the effects of 9/11, has affected the promotion of democracy in the south. The failure of democracy in the south may well be linked to authoritarian trends on a global scale. Contributors include Mustapha Kamel al-Sayyid, Gilles Massardier, Eric Gobe, Oliver Schlumberger, Isabel Schäfer, Robert Springborg, Holger Albrecht, Virginie Collombier, Marc Lazar and Mohamed Mouaquit.
