Abstract
European Integration and Europeanization processes in social field are the focus of the analysis here proposed. Starting from the social implications and from the effects that the different European welfare regimes have on them, it will be shown a possible re-arrangement of the differences within the various regimes, as well as of their relationships and their new characterizations. The aim is highlight the dual thrust between Europeanization and decentralization of social policy in some European countries, which are considered as a guidance of specific welfare regimes, in order to understand at what level of governance the decisions that shape this area can be attributed. However, the analysis involved five Nations (Italy, Germany, France, Spain and United Kingdom) and ten local contexts, two for each Nation (Milan and Naples, Berlin and Munich, Paris and Rouen, Barcelona and Vigo, London and Liverpool). What result is a comparative geographic and policy analysis based on a mixed methods approach intended as a merge of quantitative and qualitative approaches, techniques and tools. The analysis contemplates jointly the study of supranational, national and subnational directions, but also the study of local dynamics concerning the spread of specific: models of implementation, kind of decision-making processes in social policies and type of regimes that this decision generates. The structure of the study is growing both in macro perspective (through multivariate and multi-level analysis of social indicators and subsequent cluster analysis) as well as in the micro perspective (through the analysis of projects in different local contexts and in particular by applying impact, implementation and comparative network analysis). The conclusion was the realization of a general model of interpretation and classification of the changes occurred in the different European welfare regimes.
Highlights
European Integration and Europeanization processes, which have had their engine in political and economic instances, but whit direct effect on social field, are the focus of the analysis here proposed
While the analysis of databases aimed at comparison of 27 European nations, the analysis of project was involved in five Nations
What ensues is the construction of the general model of classification, main result of the analysis conducted, in which every result that emerged from the different analytical step has been transformed into characteristics and attributes that substantiate the different types emerged and they can live together, in this way, without particular ontological and epistemological issues, in a flexible, dynamic and ever changing multi-methods model, because it integrates the change in the system under investigation as a systemic variable
Summary
European Integration and Europeanization processes, which have had their engine in political and economic instances, but whit direct effect on social field, are the focus of the analysis here proposed. With this study it was intended to deepen the dual thrust between Europeanisation and decentralization of social policy in some European countries, considerable guidance of specific welfare regimes [2], to understand at what level of governance are attributable to the decisions that shape this area This objective was pursued through a comparative geographic and policy analysis based on a mixed methods approach intended as a merge of standard and non-standard approaches, techniques and tools. It means contemplate jointly the supranational, national and subnational directions and dynamics in the dissemination of specific models of implementation and decision of social policy and to the schemes which these decisions give life. Together to the theoretical and methodological assumptions, the macro and the micro models with their opening questions, procedures and main empirical results
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