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Europeanisation through elective affinities: Active social policy model and national control policies of the unemployed. GSPE Working Paper 05/05/2009

Dubois, Vincent. (2009) Europeanisation through elective affinities: Active social policy model and national control policies of the unemployed. GSPE Working Paper 05/05/2009. [Working Paper] (Unpublished)

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    Abstract

    The increasing control of the unemployed observed since the late 1990s in Western countries raises two questions. How did control, both a long-time practice and a marginal one in employment policies, become a major issue? Why do national policies on employment benefits converge on the issue, even though the EU has no direct competences in the matter? Three levels of analysis are explored in order to answer these questions. First, the historical evolutions that have affected unemployment and its public treatment are studied, and specifically the process of desobjectivation of unemployment and the development of increasingly unfavourable socio-political power relations for the unemployed. Then, the focus is placed on the establishment of elective affinities, in Max Weber’s meaning, between the active social state model promoted at supranational level and the rigorist orientations of the management of the unemployed at national level. Eventually, using the French case, the analysis of the uses of international comparisons shows how policies underpinned by national logics can have European tendencies that in return, they contribute to fulfil.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Uncontrolled Keywords: Europeanisation, active social state, unemployment, European Employment Strategy, elective affinities.
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > europeanisation/europeanization & European identity
    Countries > France
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > employment/unemployment
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > general
    EU policies and themes > EU institutions & developments > institutional development/policy > historical development of EC (pre-1986)
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Centre for European Political Sociology (University of Strasbourg) > Working Papers
    Depositing User: Mr Jean-Yves Bart
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 21 Feb 2010
    Page Range: p. 16
    Last Modified: 15 Feb 2011 18:20
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/12445

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