Efficiency or compensation? The global economic crisis and the development of the European Union's social policy.

摘要: How has the global social policy agenda evolved since economic crisis? To shed light on this question, article looks at discourses in European Union (EU) policy. It draws two rival theoretical approaches from literature globalisation and welfare state, efficiency compensation hypotheses, links these to fundamental rationales underlying discourse EU Based an analysis of key documents Open Methods Coordination (OMCs), shows that logic hypothesis can be extended While debates one OMC remained largely unchanged, significantly shifted towards rationale during after crisis other OMC. This suggests least partly strengthened view should geared efficiency, growth, creation jobs.