Home

About Us

Help

Jobs

News

Site Index

OUP Worldwide

My Account

My Wish List

View Basket

Email this to a Friend

Printer-Friendly View

Basket: 0 items | £0.00

The Boundaries of Welfare European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection

View Larger

Resources

This book is available in Oxford Scholarship Online - view abstracts and keywords at book and chapter level.

Related Categories

Welfare & Benefit Systems

Political Economy

EU & European Institutions

EU Law

The Boundaries of Welfare

European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection

Maurizio Ferrera

316 pages | Numerous tables and figures | 234x156mm

978-0-19-928467-2 | Paperback | 24 November 2005

Also available as: Hardback

Price: £36.00

This item is printed to order. Items which are printed to order are normally despatched and charged within 5-10 days.

Add to Wish List

Major new statement by leading scholar of the welfare state
Offers suggestions on how a viable new system of multi-level social protection could emerge within the new EU boundary configuration
Adopts a comparative and historical approach to shed new light on an issue of major current concern

To what extent has the process of European integration re-drawn the boundaries of national welfare states? What are the effects of such re-drawing? Boundaries count: they are essential in bringing together individuals, groups, and territorial units, and for activating or strengthening shared ties between them. If the profile of boundaries changes over time, we might expect significant consequences on bonding dynamics, i.e. on the way solidarity is structured in a given political community.

The book addresses these two questions in a broad historical and comparative perspective. The first chapter sets out a novel theoretical framework which re-conceptualizes the welfare state as a 'bounded space' characterized by a distinct spatial politics. This reconceptualization takes as a starting point the 'state-building tradition' in political science and in particular the work of Stein Rokkan. The second chapter briefly outlines the early emergence and expansion of European welfare states till World War II. Chapters 3 and 4 analyse the relationship between domestic welfare state developments and the formation of a supranational European Community between the 1960s and the 2000s, illustrating how the process of European integration has increasingly eroded the social sovereignty of the nation-state. Chapter 5 focuses on new emerging forms of sub-national and trans-national social protection, while Chapter 6 discusses current trends and future perspectives for a re-structuring of social protection at the EU level.

While there is no doubt that European integration has significantly altered the boundaries of national welfare, de-stabilizing delicate political and institutional equilibria, the book concludes by offering some suggestions on how a viable system of multi-level social protection could possibly emerge within the new EU wide boundary configuration.

Readership: Scholars and students of politics, social policy, political economy, EU studies, and sociology

The specification in this catalogue, including without limitation price, format, extent, number of illustrations, and month of publication, was as accurate as possible at the time the catalogue was compiled. Occasionally, due to the nature of some contractual restrictions, we are unable to ship a specific product to a particular territory. Jacket images are provisional and liable to change before publication.

Subscribe to RSS feeds

The Boundaries of Welfare

European Integration and the New Spatial Politics of Social Protection

Share