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

Contents......Page 12
List of Figures......Page 14
List of Tables......Page 15
List of Abbreviations......Page 16
Introduction......Page 18
Introduction......Page 28
‘Bounded Structuring’: Rokkan Revisited......Page 33
Locality and Vocality Options in Bounded Spaces: Hirschman Revisited......Page 45
Modern Citizenship as a Basic Form of Spatial Closure......Page 54
Bounding for Bonding: The Complex Structuring of Social Rights......Page 61
Creating Boundaries for Social Sharing: The Territorial Dimension......Page 70
Membership Definitions: The Great Divide Between Universalistic and Occupational Welfare States......Page 76
Why Different Paths? The Role of Centre–Periphery and Cleavage Constellations......Page 82
Institutional Freezing: The Apex of External and Internal Closure after the Second World War......Page 88
The First Challenges from Within: Supplementary Pension Schemes......Page 94
State Monopoly Over Occupational Pensions? Britain vs. Sweden......Page 96
An Increasingly Variegated Multitier and Multipillar Space......Page 103
Challenges from Without? Enter the European Communities......Page 107
Law for Exit or Constitution in Disguise? The Shifting EC Legal Order......Page 112
Free Movement of Workers and Social Rights......Page 116
Golden Achievements, Seeds of Change......Page 121
From Rescue to Subversion? European Integration and the Nation State after the Crisis......Page 128
Mutual Recognition and the Challenge of Negative Integration......Page 131
Growth Beyond Limits: From Sovereign to Semi-sovereign Welfare States?......Page 136
Health Care and the Challenge of Cross-border Mobility......Page 141
Social Assistance and the Residence Issue......Page 148
Migration and the Status of Third Country Nationals......Page 155
Compulsory Membership and Public Insurance Monopolies Contested......Page 161
Capped Social Sovereignty and the New Spatial Politics of Solidarity......Page 179
Local, National, Regional? The Long Territorial Parabola of European Social Protection......Page 184
European Integration, Neo-regionalism, and the Rise of Competitive Solidarities......Page 192
Social Policy Activism and Innovation at the ‘Third Level’......Page 199
Welfare Regionalism at Work: The Case of Italy......Page 209
Conclusion......Page 219
Boundary Changes in European Welfare: A Summary......Page 222
The New Spatial Architecture of Social Citizenship in the EU......Page 227
What Kind of Destructuring?......Page 236
Institutional Legacies and Boundary Redefinitions: The Case of Pensions......Page 240
Old and New Cleavage Lines: The Case of Migration......Page 246
Restructuring at the EU Level? Some Cautious Conclusions......Page 254
References......Page 271
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