The Future of European Welfare: A New Social Contract?

Front Matter....Pages i-xii
Europe’s Social Contract Under Stress....Pages 1-19
Front Matter....Pages 21-21
Unemployment and Social Exclusion: An Economic View....Pages 23-40
Poverty and Social Exclusion: A Sociological View....Pages 41-62
Against Exclusion: The Poor and the Social Sciences....Pages 63-78
Front Matter....Pages 79-79
The Four ‘Social Europes’: Between Universalism and Selectivity....Pages 81-96
The Evolution of Financial Poverty in Western Europe....Pages 97-124
In Defence Of Welfare: Social Protection and Social Reform in Eastern Europe....Pages 125-153
Front Matter....Pages 155-155
Negative and Positive Integration in the Political Economy of European Welfare States....Pages 157-177
Globalization, Labour Markets and Welfare States: A Future of ‘Competitive Corporatism’?....Pages 178-203
Global and Regional Agencies and the Making of Post-Communist Social Policy in Eastern Europe....Pages 204-225
Front Matter....Pages 227-227
The Social Contract and the Problem of the Firm....Pages 229-243
European Social Citizenship: Why a New Social Contract (Probably) Will Not Happen....Pages 244-265
Some Sceptical Reflections on EU Citizenship as the Basis of a New Social Contract....Pages 266-283
Back Matter....Pages 284-287