This collection of essays examines the promise and limits of social rights in Europe in a time of austerity. Presenting in the first instance five national case studies, representing the biggest European economies (UK, France, Germany, Italy and Spain), it offers an account of recent reforms to social welfare and the attempts to resist them through litigation. The case studies are then used as a foundation for theory-building about social rights. This second group of chapters develops theory along two complementary lines: first, they explore the dynamics between social rights, public law, poverty and welfare in times of economic crisis; second, they consider the particular significance of the European context for articulations of, and struggles over, social rights. Employing a range and depth of expertise across Europe, the book constitutes a timely and highly significant contribution to socio-legal scholarship about the character and resilience of social rights in our national and regional constitutional settings.
Edited by:
Stefano Civitarese Matteucci,
Simon Halliday
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 476g
ISBN: 9780367191801
ISBN 10: 0367191806
Series: Critical Studies in Jurisprudence
Pages: 300
Publication Date: 10 January 2019
Audience:
College/higher education
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General/trade
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Primary
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ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
List of contributors Acknowledgements Table of cases PART I Introduction 1 Social rights, the Welfare State and European austerity Stefano Civitarese Matteucci and Simon Halliday PART II European case studies 2 France Diane Roman 3 Germany Ulrike Lembke 4 Italy Alessandra Albanese 5 Spain Dolores Utrilla 6 UK Jed Meers 7 Austerity, conditionality and litigation in six European nations Michael Adler and Lars Inge Terum PART III Theoretical discussions 8 Should a minimum income be unconditional? Stuart White 9 The social dimension of fundamental rights in times of crisis Francesco Ferraro 10 Social rights and welfare reform in times of economic crisis Jeff King 11 The political economy of European social rights Emilios Christodoulidis and Marco Goldoni 12 Economic crisis and territorial assymetrical effects on the guarantee of social rights within the European Economic and Monteary Union (EMU) Francesco Bilancia 13 Free movement of persons and transnational solidarity in the European Union (EU): a melancholic eulogy Stefano Giubboni Index
Stefano Civitarese Matteucci is Professor of Public Law at the University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. Simon Halliday is Professor of Socio-Legal Studies at the University of York, UK, and Professor of Law at the University of New South Wales, Australia.
