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Community in Europe: A Historical Lexicon. IHS Political Science Series 59, January 1999

Cowen, M.P. and Shenton, R.W. (1999) Community in Europe: A Historical Lexicon. IHS Political Science Series 59, January 1999. [Working Paper]

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    Abstract

    One of the main causes of flagging support for the EU has been the persistence of high levels of unemployment in virtually all member states of the Union. Our paper shows that in combating unemployment, present policy as set out in EU documents is forced to steer a course between ‘competitiveness’ of markets and what is variously referred to as ‘social protection’, ‘social balance’ or ‘social responsibility’. The difficult question which then arises is how an injunction for individual responsibility can be enforced through rules and regulations which run against the principle of freedom to which responsibility is attached. When freedom is associated with social custom or convention, and that it is customary for individuals to have a state-provided social benefit, a ‘community’ of social responsibility and the like becomes so problematic. The task is finding the means of persuasion that makes the loss of local custom and individual dependence appear as a socially responsible but private gain of livelihood.

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    Item Type: Working Paper
    Subjects for non-EU documents: EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > employment/labour market > employment/unemployment
    EU policies and themes > Policies & related activities > social policy > general
    Subjects for EU documents: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Series and Periodicals: UNSPECIFIED
    EU Annual Reports: UNSPECIFIED
    Series: Series > Institute for Advanced Studies (Vienna), Department of Political Science > IHS Political Science Series
    Depositing User: Phil Wilkin
    Official EU Document: No
    Language: English
    Date Deposited: 18 Oct 2011 12:38
    Number of Pages: 49
    Last Modified: 18 Oct 2011 12:38
    URI: http://aei.pitt.edu/id/eprint/32412

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