Enabling Social Policy

• Main Authors: Maydell, B. v. (Author), Borchardt, K. (Author), Henke, K.-D (Author), Leitner, R. (Author), Muffels, R. (Author), Quante, M. (Author), Rauhala, P.-L (Author), Verschraegen, G. (Author), Żukowski, M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Wütscher, Friederike (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2006.
• Series: Wissenschaftsethik und Technikfolgenbeurteilung, Schriftenreihe der Europäischen Akademie zur Erforschung von Folgen wissenschaftlich-technischer Entwicklungen Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler GmbH, 26
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Engineering.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Social Sciences.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Engineering, general.

‘Enabling Social Europe’ examines how the paradigm of the ‘enabling welfare state’ might offer a new perspective for European social policy in the decades to come. The ‘enabling’ concept is perceived as going beyond that of mere ‘activation’, thus also embracing policies aimed at increasing personal...

Table of Contents:

• Social Policy in the 21st Century
• European Union and Social Policy
• National and Supra-national Social Policy: Comparative Case Studies
• Elements of a European Social Policy
• Erratum.