dc.contributor.author | DAWSON, Mark | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2009-03-10T13:50:55Z | |
dc.date.available | 2009-03-10T13:50:55Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2009 | |
dc.identifier.citation | European Law Review, 2009, 34, 1, 55-79 | en |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/10851 | |
dc.description.abstract | The development of the open method of co-ordination from the extraordinary Lisbon European Council in 2000 has been considered by many academic and institutional commentators as a break-through for Social Europe. Yet what kind of breakthrough is it? While many "OMC optimists" have seen its development as providing a new space for social policy outside a restrictive Treaty structure, others have pointed to the integration of the OMC within the Lisbon Strategy as evidencing a new set of economic constraints on the welfare state's development. This paper will argue that there is a deep ambiguity within the OMC's social role; while on the one hand, it can be seen as "colonising"--or entering national social institutions ever further into an EU framework dominated by market actors--on the other, it can be posited as "reflexive", as encouraging both competing social and economic discourses, and inter-dependent national polities, to reflect upon the objectives of each other. | en |
dc.title | The Ambiguity of Social Europe in the Open Method of Coordination | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
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