The aim of this book is to explore and reflect upon preconditions
of a specific European social dimension, or more specifically of a
European social citizenship. Welfare and social policies in Europe
are deeply entrenched in state histories; the success of the
welfare state stems from its ability during a fairly long
historical period to unify social citizenship, full employment,
mass education and a functional industrial relations system. The
historical connection between welfare regimes built upon the nation
state, and popular democracy founded in party voting, makes the
deepening and widening of a common European project a highly risky
undertaking and an open process with a radically uncertain outcome.
The dilemma in the form of uneasy relationships among national
welfare regimes and the evolutionary process of increased market
integration--driven both by market forces (globalisation) and the
European Union as a political project--is well known and has been
demonstrated by different commentators, Every step of deepening
market integration in Europe tends to threaten and put pressure on
the existing national welfare regimes. As their own populations
generally support them, the legitimacy of the EU is at risk. The
book analyses the prospects of a coordinated social dimension at
the European level, matching the market integration, and what role
the concept of citizenship can play in such a scenario.
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