European Social Policy and the Covid 19 Pandemic

ISBN-13: 9780197676189 / Angielski

Borner

Opis

This is an open access title available under the terms of a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 International license (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). It is free to read at Oxford Academic and offered as a free PDF download from OUP and select open access locations. During the first two years of the COVID-19 pandemic, social policy was one of the most important strategies used by governments to help mitigate the crisis. European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy provides an encompassing and longer-term analysis of the social policy responses of European countries, as well as the European Union (EU), to the challenges of the pandemic. The book asks in which direction the European welfare states, on the one hand, and EU social policy, on the other, are developing as a result of the pandemic with respect to polity, politics, and policy instruments. European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic addresses several questions, such as what medium- and long-term effects will the current social policy crisis responses have on the different welfare states? Will the partly improvised, partly only temporary but in every respect diverse and often unprecedented measures lead to novel reform trajectories or even a new welfare state model? What new forms of international cooperation and conflict resolution mechanisms may arise within the social policy domain of the EU? The questions raised not only concern the future of welfare states in Europe but also EU-level social-policy making and European integration in general. The chapters--written by experts on law, political science, social policy, and sociology--build on various methodological backgrounds and encompass single case studies, comparative policy analyses, and discourse-analytical perspectives.

Recenzje

What happens when welfare states returning from an economic and financial crisis are confronted with a health crisis? This excellent volume guides us in the exploration of the slowly unfolding effects of policy reactions to the pandemic at the level of the EU, several Western welfare states, and local constituencies. Health policies meet social policies in a new era; don't miss it!"

O autorze

Stefanie Börner is Junior Professor of European Societies at the Department of Social Sciences at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Dr. Börner's main fields of research are EU integration, the sociology of social policy, social theory, and welfare state transformation. She is the author of Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in Social Policy (2013) and the editor of several books. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and Associate Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. Dr. Seeleib-Kaiser has held appointments at Duke University and Bremen University, and was a visiting scholar at Shizuoka University, Aalborg University, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. He has authored and edited several books, and is an editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.