Introduction / Amparo Serrano Pascual and Maria Jepsen -- The concept of ESM and supranational legitimacy-building / Maria Jepsen and Amparo Serrano Pascual -- Taking stock of social Europe: is there such a thing as a community social model? / Janine Goetschy -- Employment and pay in Europe and the US: food for thought about flexibility and the European Social Model / Wiemer Salverda -- Activation policies and the European Social Model / Joel F. Handler -- Has the European Social Model a distinctive activation touch? / Jean-Claude Barbier -- The European Social Model and gender equality / Lilja Mósesdóttir -- The European Social Model and enlargement / Maarten Keune -- Reforming the European Social Model and the politics of indicators: from the unemployment rate to the employment rate in the European Employment Strategy / Robert Salais -- Assessing the European Social Model against the capability approach / Jean-Michel Bonvin -- Social dialogue as a regulatory mode of the ESM: some empirical evidence from the new member states / Céline Lafoucriere and Roy Green
Summary
This book presents the outcome of a project coordinated by the European Trade Union Institute in which experts from different countries and social scientific disciplines (sociology, political science and economics) were invited to reflect on both the meaning and political status of the concept of the European Social Model (ESM)
