Symposium:
Mountain or Molehill?
A Critical Appraisal of the Commission White Paper on Governance

Next

New Governance, EU Employment Policy, and the European Social Model ^*

David M. Trubek and James Mosher ^**

This paper is a part of contributions to the Jean Monnet Working Paper
No.6/01, Symposium: Mountain or Molehill? A Critical Appraisal of the Commission White Paper on Governance

• Introduction
• 1) Origins: The Crisis in European Social Policy
  • The magnitude of the tasks to be undertaken.
  • The limits of European Union competence and capacity
• 2) The EES: The Emergence of an Alternative Governance Paradigm for EU-level Social Policy
• 3) The EES: Process and Strategy
  • An iterative multi-level, multi-actor process
  • A partial strategy and a political compromise
• 4) The Impact of the EES on Member State Policy
  • Preventative and Active Unemployment Policies
  • More employment-friendly taxation systems
  • Assessing Impact
• 5) Does the EES Promote Policy Learning?
  • Assessment of the process
  • Evidence of change
• 6) Overall Assessment: Creating New Governance Mechanisms and Preserving the European Social Model
  • Assessing a new governance mechanism
  • The EES, the politics of the welfare state, and the future of the European Social Model
• Final Thoughts
• References

^* September 2001
Originally presented at the Conference on Reconfiguring Work and Welfare in the New Economy, European Union Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, May 10-12, 2001
James Mosher was Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute in Florence from January-July 2001. The authors acknowledge the support and encouragement of the European Union Center at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the European University Institute. We received helpful comments from Jonathan Zeitlin, Phillipe Pochet, Mark Pollack and the participants in the May 2001 Conference.

^** David M. Trubek, Voss-Bascom Professor of Law
Director, Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy
University of Wisconsin-Madison
319 Ingraham Hall
1155 Observatory Drive
Madison, WI 53706
608-262-5608
dmtrubek@facstaff.wisc.edu

James Mosher, Assistant Professor
Department of Political Science
Ohio University
Bentley Hall
Athens, OH 45701
740-593-4383
mosherj@ohio.edu

Top|Next

© David M. Trubek and James S. Mosher 2001