Welfare Markets in Europe

Amandine Crespy is Lecturer in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles, Belgium. Her research deals with the politicization of EU integration, especially in relation to socio-economic policies.

“The book succeeds in bridging the gap between various pieces of literature focusing on the legal and institutional frameworks and their impact on the national level on one side, and the global justice movement and the euro-critical mobilisation (as a contribution to new forms of supranational democracy) on the other. … the book is of value both for scholars and for students of advanced courses in European integration.” (Tomislav Sokol, European Journal of Social Security, Vol. 19 (4), 2017)

• 1. Introduction: Welfare markets, democracy and European integration.- 2. European Integration as marketization.- 3. Resistance to liberalization.- 4. The elusive pursuit of Social Europe.- 5. The contentious global agenda for services.- 6. Welfare services in times of austerity.- 7 Conclusion: The marketization and politicization of welfare services: old and new dynamics