TY  - BOOK
AU  - Caroline de la Porte
AU  - Philippe Pochet
PY  - 2003
CY  - Bruxelles, Belgium
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
SN  - 1376-0955
TI  - Building Social Europe through the Open Method of Co-ordination
T2  - Second Printing
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1094986
N2  - The Open Method of Co-ordination (OMC) is a multi-dimensional challenge for policy-makers, as well as social actors, researchers and other players. The aim of Building Social Europe through the Open Method of Co-ordination is to describe the role of the OMC as an instrument for the governance of Europe’s social dimension from a multi-disciplinary perspective.   The underlying issues addressed concern its potential as an instrument of Europeanisation, as well as how the Member States influence EU policy formation. The complexities of national policy-making processes in the area of employment are scrutinised by researchers from different EU countries who seek to understand how, if at all, OMC employment is integrated into Member States’ policies. Furthermore, the complex adaptational pressures of the EU on the reform of national public pension schemes (the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden and Italy) are analysed. The editors devote their efforts to understanding the national-European dynamics of OMC in the areas of employment, social exclusion and pensions.   The book is a first step towards a theoretical framework that explains the dynamics of OMC.
KW  - social security, continent, wellfare, Supple Co-ordination at EU Level and the Key Actors¿ Involvement, Real Integration or just Formal Adaptation?, From Flexibilisation to the European Employment Strategy
LA  - English
ER  -