Welfare state | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk Edinburgh Europa Institute Sun, 08 Apr 2018 23:52:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/files/2015/03/European-Futures-Icon.png Welfare state | European Futures https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk 32 32 Post-Crisis Policymaking in Europe: The Politics of Expertise https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/post-crisis-policymaking-in-europe-the-politics-of-expertise/ Tue, 26 Jan 2016 08:00:51 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=2688 Elke Heins and Hartwig Pautz The shift towards ‘evidence-based’ policymaking and pressure from the EU have pushed European governments to increasingly make use of technocratic expertise in policymaking, write Elke Heins and Hartwig Pautz. They call for a new research agenda to explore the facets of ‘independent evidence’ and the role of austerity in European …

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]]> Social Europe since the Crisis https://www.europeanfutures.ed.ac.uk/social-europe-since-the-crisis/ Wed, 26 Aug 2015 08:00:56 +0000 http://blogs.sps.ed.ac.uk/europablogsite/?p=1569 Elke Heins and Caroline de la Porte The changes to Eurozone governance in response to the crisis have had considerable impact on national welfare states, argue Elke Heins and Caroline de la Porte. They suggest that, despite more recent efforts to take the social dimension into account, the Eurozone’s new structures strongly favour economic and …

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