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About this book
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.
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About the author
Amandine Crespy is Lecturer in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research deals with the politicization of EU integration, especially in relation to socio-economic policies.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Welfare Markets in Europe
Book Subtitle: The Democratic Challenge of European Integration
Authors: Amandine Crespy
Series Title: Palgrave Studies in European Political Sociology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-57104-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-57103-8Published: 08 July 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-57104-5Published: 23 June 2016
Series ISSN: 2946-6016
Series E-ISSN: 2946-6024
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 263
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sociology, general, International Economics, Social Policy, Political Economy/Economic Systems, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Social Care