Buffering national welfare states in hard times: the politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain

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• dc.contributor.author Miró, Joan
• dc.contributor.author Kyriazi, Anna
• dc.contributor.author Natili, Marcello
• dc.contributor.author Ronchi, Stefano
• dc.date.accessioned 2024-04-22T06:18:43Z
• dc.date.available 2024-04-22T06:18:43Z
• dc.date.issued 2024
• dc.description.abstract The EU has traditionally influenced the social and employment policies of Member States through regulation, leaving redistribution to national welfare states. The latter have, however, been gradually weakened by global socioeconomic change and by the expansion of EU market integration. A series of crises over the last 15 years made a bad situation worse: the longue durée erosion of the capacity of European welfare states has morphed into acute social aftershocks, especially in peripheral countries. After the austerity reflex in the early 2010s, the EU introduced new policy instruments with market-correcting rationales that go beyond the regulatory approach. This article revisits the creation and functioning of four of these instruments that represent EU-level capacity-building in the social policy domain: the European Globalisation Adjustment Fund, the Youth Guarantee, the Just Transition Fund and SURE (the temporary Support to mitigate Unemployment Risks in an Emergency). We argue that the EU increasingly provides ‘buffer mechanisms’ to support stressed national welfare states in tasks they would otherwise be unable to accomplish, and we identify the political factors that drive the expansion of this ‘buffering’ logic in EU social policy.
• dc.description.sponsorship This research was supported by the research project ‘Policy Crisis and Crisis Politics: Sovereignty, Solidarity and Identity in the EU Post-2008’, funded by an Advanced Grant of the European Research Council (Grant no. 810356 ERC-2018-SyG).
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• dc.identifier.citation Miró J, Kyriazi A, Natili M, Ronchi S. Buffering national welfare states in hard times: the politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain. Soc Policy Adm. 2024 Feb 11;58(2):215-27. DOI: 10.1111/spol.12979
• dc.identifier.doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/spol.12979
• dc.identifier.issn 0144-5596
• dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59856
• dc.language.iso eng
• dc.publisher Wiley
• dc.relation.ispartof Social Policy & Administration. 2024 Feb 11;58(2):215-27
• dc.relation.projectID info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/810356
• dc.rights © 2023 The Authors. Social Policy & Administration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.
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• dc.subject.keyword Buffering logic
• dc.subject.keyword Crisis politics
• dc.subject.keyword European Union
• dc.subject.keyword Social Europe
• dc.subject.keyword Welfare state change
• dc.title Buffering national welfare states in hard times: the politics of EU capacity‐building in the social policy domain
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