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Soft Governance in Hard Politics

European Coordination of Anti-Poverty Policies in France and Germany

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  1. Sandra Kröger
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-10
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  2. Introducing the Lisbon Strategy and the OMC

    Pages 11-25

  3. State of the art

    Pages 27-49

  4. Research framework

    Pages 51-82

  5. The OMC inclusion at national level

    Pages 83-135

  6. The OMC inclusion at EU-level

    Pages 137-179

  7. Evaluation of the OMC inclusion by involved actors

    Pages 181-204

  8. Conclusion and outlook

    Pages 205-222

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 223-253
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About this book

The present study addresses the governance architecture of the much debated Open Method of Coordination (OMC) in the field of social inclusion and evaluates its implementation in France, Germany and at EU-level. Based on extensive variable-based empirical research, it assesses both the effectiveness and the legitimacy of the OMC and comes to unequivocal conclusions: Due to the resistance of member states and remaining differences in underlying ideas of social justice, anti-poverty policy could not be Europeanised through the OMC which unfolds as a very weak governance architecture. The general framework of negative integration remains unchallenged by this non-binding instrument which, to the contrary of its intention, rather forecloses the possibility of supranational learning. With regard to legitimacy, the OMC supports policy-making in closed, intransparent circles of very weakly or not democratically mandated representatives and therefore does little do decrease the democratic deficit of the EU - however one of its original ambitions.

About the author

Dr. Sandra Kröger is researcher and lecturer at the Jean Monnet Centre for European Studies (CEuS) of the University Bremen.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Soft Governance in Hard Politics

  • Book Subtitle: European Coordination of Anti-Poverty Policies in France and Germany

  • Authors: Sandra Kröger

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-531-91810-5

  • Publisher: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften Wiesbaden

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Political Science and International Studies (R0)

  • Copyright Information: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften | Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden GmbH, Wiesbaden 2009

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-531-16367-3Published: 09 October 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-531-91810-5Published: 11 January 2009

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: X, 246

  • Topics: Political Science, Comparative Politics

  • Industry Sectors: Engineering

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