The EU and the Domestic Politics of Welfare State Reforms

PATRIZIA AURICH is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Globalisation and Governance, University of Hamburg, Germany RIK VAN BERKEL is Associate Professor at the School of Governance of Utrecht University, the Netherlands HAeLAeNE CAUNE is a PhD Candidate at the Institute for Political Studies (Sciences Po), Centre for European Studies, France CEM DUYULMUS is a Research Assistant and Research Chair in Citizenship and Governance, Department of Political Science, University of Montreal, Canada WILLIBRORD DE GRAAF is Associate Professor in the Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science, Utrecht University, The Netherlands JONATHAN HOPKIN is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, London School of Economics, UK MATTEO JESSOULA is Assistant Professor at the Department of Social and Political Studies of the University of Milan, Italy ANNE SCHAuTTPELZ is a Political Scientist and works at the Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs, Women and Family of the state of Brandenburg, Germany DIMITRI A. SOTIROPOULOS is Associate Professor at the Department of Political Science and Public Administration, University of Athens and Research Associate of the Hellenic Foundation for European and Foreign Policy Studies (ELIAMEP, Athens), Greece ASA CASULA VIFELL is a Researcher at the Department of Political Science, University of Stockholm and at Sodertom University, Sweden CHRISTA VAN WIJNBERGEN is a Research Fellow in the European Institute at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK SOTIRIOS ZARTALOUDIS is a PhD Candidate at the European Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK

This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes.This book focuses on the relationship between European integration, its outputs and national institutional and political settings. It explores the political mechanisms through which the EU plays a role in domestic social policy changes.