Social quality : a vision for Europe
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Social quality : a vision for Europe
（Studies in employment and social policy, v. 7）
Kluwer Law International, c2001
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Some copies have different pagination: xi, 393 p
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
This volume represents the outcome of two years of intensive debate about the future of Europe. It aims to provide the European Union with a vision: one that will unite all of its citizens and help to create the democratic legitimacy that the EU currently lacks. It builds on the first book on social quality, "The Social Quality of Europe", which introduced the concept. The book develops three crucial elements of social quality: the theoretical validity of the concept, its practical application, and its identity or "genetic code". It establishes an independent identity for social quality, with a unique focus on the quality of the social, which enables it to act as the rationale for economic, social, and cultural policies and, therefore, an escape route from the dominance of narrow economic thinking in policy making. This book is intended for anyone interested in the future of Europe: policy makers, scientists, NGOs, and students of social policy, law, economics, sociology, and political science.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - who and what is the European Union for?, W. Beck , et al.
- Part 1 the social quality of Europe: assessing the concept
- on the politics and policy of social quality, G. Therborn
- a juridical approach to the European model of social quality, A. Ojeda-Aviles
- identification of the "Problematique", D. Bouget
- gender relations and daily life - towards a cross-cultural approach, M. Calloni
- welfare state theory and social quality, K. van Kersbergen
- the empirical and policy relevance of social quality, D. Bouget
- definitional, conceptual and operational issues, D. Phillips, Y. Berman
- reflections on the social quality initiative, W. Beck , et al. Part 2 Tendencies in Europe: developing the concept
- urban transformations, the French debate and social quality, J. Berting, Ch. Villain-Gandossi
- social market, social quality, and the quality of social institutions, O. de Leonardis
- welfare dynamics, the third sector and social quality, A. Evers
- social quality from basic security - a redistrebutive strategy, G. Standing
- coping with drastic social change - Europe and the US in comparison, G. Vobruba
- democratic modernity and social quality, S. Andersen, K. Eliassen
- processes challenging the concept of social quality. W. Beck, et al. Part 3 Creating a new perspective
- theorizing social quality - the concept's validity, W. Beck, et al.
- the concept's empirical and political applicability, W. Beck, et al.
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