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Author Kröger, Sandra

Title Soft governance in hard politics : European coordination of anti-poverty policies in France and Germany / Sandra Kröger
Edition 1. Aufl
Published Wiesbaden : VS, Verl. für Sozialwiss., 2008

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Description 1 online resource (253 pages)
Contents Introducing the Lisbon Strategy and the OMC -- State of the art -- Research framework -- The OMC inclusion at national level -- The OMC inclusion at EU-level -- Evaluation of the OMC inclusion by involved actors -- Conclusion and outlook
Summary TThe present study addresses the governance architecture of the much debated Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of social inclusion and evaluates its implementation in France, Germany and at EU-level. Based on extensive variable-based empirical research, it assesses both the effectiveness and the legitimacy of the OMC and comes to unequivocal conclusions: Due to the resistance of member states and remaining differences in underlying ideas of social justice, anti-poverty policy could not be Europeanised through the OMC which unfolds as a very weak governance architecture. The general framework of negative integration remains unchallenged by this non-binding instrument which, to the contrary of its intention, rather forecloses the possibility of supranational learning. With regard to legitimacy, the OMC supports policy-making in closed, intransparent circles of very weakly or not democratically mandated representatives and therefore does little do decrease the democratic deficit of the EU - however one of its original ambitions
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-253) and sources
Notes English
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Subject Economic assistance, Domestic -- Europe
Poor -- Europe
Economic assistance, Domestic
Poor
Armut
Bekämpfung
Offene Methode der Koordinierung
Europe
Frankreich
Deutschland
Europäische Union.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783531918105
3531918109
3531163671
9783531163673
1281965073
9781281965073