Table of Contents

1. The European Social Model Part I: From Liberal to neo-liberal Europe 2. Liberal Europe during the Cold War Order (1947-1982): From the European Recovery Program to the Socialist Challenge 3. The Political Economy of Western Europe’s Social Models in the Cold War Order: Inevitable and Convergent Welfare States? 4. Neo-liberal Europe in the New World Order (1985-2007): From the Single Market to the European Constitution 5. The Political Economy of Western Europe’s Social Models in the New World Order: Retrenching Welfare States and the Emergence of Social Europe? Part II: Alternative Social Models to neo-liberal Europe 6. Progressive Social Forces and the Transformation of the World Order: Radical National Alternatives 7. Progressive Social Forces and the Transformation of the World Order: Euro-Keynesian and Radical European Alternatives Part III: The neoliberalisation of EU policy 8. Operation of economic policy 9. Fiscal Federalism: A Missed Opportunity or an Emerging Consensus? 10. European Social Policy: Constructing a European Social Model and Defending the European Model of Society? 11. Social Partnership and Labour Market Flexibility Part IV: What future for a social Europe? 12. Neoliberalisation and enlargement: incompatible goals? 13. Social Europe and Enlargement: Threat or Opportunity? 14. National economic policy alternatives 15. From Rescue and Stimulus to the Age of Austerity: the European Response to the Great Recession and the Prospects for Social Europe

About the Author

University of Central Lancashire, UK University of Bradford, UK Northumbria University, UK

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'Offers a long overdue critical account of the economic and social integration process of the EU -- a major reference for academics and students alike' - Christian Schweiger, Durham University, UK