Agents of institutional change in EU policy: the social investment moment

References

• Armingeon, K. and Baccaro, L. (2012) ‘Political economy of the sovereign debt crisis: the limits of the internal devaluation’, Industrial Law Journal 41(3): 254–75. doi: 10.1093/indlaw/dws029
   Google Scholar
• Crespy, A. and Menz, G. (2015) ‘Commission entrepreneurship and the debasing of social Europe before and after the Eurocrisis’, JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies 53(4): 753–68.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• de la Porte, C. (2008) ‘The evolution and influence of the open method of coordination: the cases of employment and social inclusion’, Phd thesis, Social and Political Science Department, Florence, European University Institute.
   Google Scholar
• de la Porte, C. (2011) ‘Principal–agent theory and the open method of co-ordination: the case of the European employment strategy’, Journal of European Public Policy 18(4): 485–503. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2011.560071
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• de la Porte, C. and Heins, E. (2015) ‘A new era of European integration? Governance of labour market and social policy since the sovereign debt crisis’, Comparative European Politics 13(1): 8–28. doi: 10.1057/cep.2014.39
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Dheret, C. and L. Fransen (2017) ‘Social investment first! A precondition for a modern social Europe’, Issue Paper No. 82, European Policy Center, March 2017.
   Google Scholar
• Esping-Andersen, G. (ed) (2002) Why we Need a new Welfare State, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission (2013) Towards Social Investment for Growth and Cohesion – Including Implementing the European Social Funds 2014–2020, Brussels, COM(2013), 83 final.
   Google Scholar
• European Commission (2017a) Expert group on social investment for growth and cohesion, available at http://ec.europa.eu/transparency/regexpert/index.cfm?do=groupDetail.groupDetail&groupID=2819 (accessed January 2017).
   Google Scholar
• European Commission (2017b) The European Pillar of Social Rights: Going Forward Together, draft programme for meeting on 23 January 2017.
   Google Scholar
• European Parliament (2013) Resolution of 12 June 2013 on the commission communication ‘towards social investment for growth and cohesion — including implementing the European social fund 2014–2020’ (2013/2607(RSP)).
   Google Scholar
• European Parliament (2016) Report on a European pillar of social rights, 20 December, Employment and Social Affairs Committee, ref. 2016/2095.
   Google Scholar
• European Union (EU) (2016) Standard Eurobarometer 86, Public Opinion in the European Union: First Results, Brussels.
   Google Scholar
• Ferrera, M. (2016) ‘Impatient politics and social investment: the EU as “policy facilitator”’, Journal of European Public Policy 24: 1233–1251. doi:10.1080/13501763.2016.1189451.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Ferrera, M., Hemerijck, A. and Rhodes, M. (2000) The Future of Social Europe, Recasting Work and Welfare in the New Economy, Oeiras: Celta Editora.
   Google Scholar
• Hall, P.A. (2008) ‘Systematic process analysis: what it is and how to use it’, European Political Science 7(3): 304–17. doi: 10.1057/palgrave.eps.2210130
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Heclo, H. (1974) Modern Social Politics in Britain and Sweden: From Relief to Income Maintenance, New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Hemerijck (2015) ‘The quiet paradigm revolution of social investment’, Social Politics: International Studies in Gender, State & Society 22(2): 242–56.
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017a) Official, DG EMPL, 5 May (Bureaucrat).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017b) Former member of Cabinet of Laszlo Andor, DG EMPL, Lukas Vesely, 4 May (Political).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017c) Official, DG ECFIN, 4 May (Bureaucrat).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017d) Member of Cabinet of Jean-Claude Juncker, 5 May (Political).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017e) Laszlo Andor, 22 May (Political Entrepreneur).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017f) Former academic member of ad-hoc Social Investment Expert Group (2017), 26 January (Academic Entrepreneur).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017g) Former academic member of ad-hoc Social Investment Expert Group, 29 January (Academic Entrepreneur).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017h) Former academic member of ad-hoc Social Investment Expert Group, 10 January (Academic Entrepreneur).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017i) Former academic member of ad-hoc Social Investment Expert Group, 5 April (Academic Entrepreneur).
   Google Scholar
• Interview (2017j) Lieve Fransen, former director responsible for Europe 2020 in Directorate-General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion of the European Commission, 10 May (Bureaucratic Entrepreneur).
   Google Scholar
• Kingdon, J.W. (1995) Agendas, Alternatives and Public Policies, New York: Harper Collins.
   Google Scholar
• Mahoney, J. and Thelen, K. (eds) (2010) Explaining Institutional Change: Agency, Ambiguity and Power, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Mintrom, M. and Norman, P. (2009) ‘Policy entrepreneurship and policy change’, Policy Studies Journal 37(4): 649–67. doi: 10.1111/j.1541-0072.2009.00329.x
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Morel, N., Palier, B. and Palme, J. (2012) ‘Beyond the welfare state as we knew it?’, in N. Morel, B. Palier and J. Palme (eds.), Towards a Social Investment Welfare State? Ideas, Policies and Challenges, Bristol: Policy Press, pp. 1–30.
   Google Scholar
• Nolan, B. (2013) ‘What use is ‘social investment’?’, Journal of European Social Policy 23(5): 459–68. doi: 10.1177/0958928713499177
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Pierson, P. (1996) ‘The path to European integration. A historical institutionalist analysis’, Comparative Political Studies 29(2): 123–63. doi: 10.1177/0010414096029002001
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Sapir, A. (2003) An agenda for a growing Europe: making the EU system deliver, Report of an Independent High Level Group established at the initiative of the President of the European Commission.
   Google Scholar
• Scharpf, F. (2013) ‘Monetary union, fiscal crisis and the disabling of democratic accountability’, in A. Schäfer and W. Streeck (eds.), Politics in the Age of Austerity, Cambridge: Polity Press, pp. 108–42.
   Google Scholar
• Social Investment Expert Group (2013a) Minutes of 06/03/2013.
   Google Scholar
• Social Investment Expert Group (2013b) Minutes of 18/06/2013.
   Google Scholar
• Stiller, S. (2010) Ideational Leadership in German Welfare State Reform. How Politicians and Policy Ideas Transform Resilient Institutions, Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Streeck, W. and Thelen, K. (2005) Beyond Continuity: Institutional Change in Advanced Political Economies, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
   Google Scholar
• Trampusch, C. and Palier, B. (2016) ‘Between X and Y: how process tracing contributes to opening the black box of causality’, New Political Economy 21:1–17, doi:10.1080/13563467.2015.1134465.
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Vandenbroucke, F., Hemerijck, A. and Palier, B. (2011) ‘The EU needs a social investment pact’, OSE Opinion Paper No. 5, May.
   Google Scholar
• Verdun, A. (2015) ‘A historical institutionalist explanation of the EU’s responses to the euro area financial crisis’, Journal of European Public Policy 22(2): 219–237. doi: 10.1080/13501763.2014.994023
   Web of Science ®Google Scholar
• Zeitlin, J. and Vanhercke, B. (2017) ‘Socializing the European semester: EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond’, Journal of European Public Policy, 1–12. doi:10.1080/13501763.2017.1363269.
   Google Scholar