Does EU enlargement dis-embed the European social model?

The aim of the thesis is to investigate the impact of the 2004 EU enlargement upon the sustainability of the European Social Model. Prior to the 2004 enlargement the existing literature, which conducted various top-down empirical studies of the 2004 new member states, argues the new member states to...

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Main Author:	Copeland, Paul
Published:	University of Manchester 2008
Subjects:	337.142
Online Access:	http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.498806

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description	The aim of the thesis is to investigate the impact of the 2004 EU enlargement upon the sustainability of the European Social Model. Prior to the 2004 enlargement the existing literature, which conducted various top-down empirical studies of the 2004 new member states, argues the new member states to be a homogenous neoliberal bloc of countries which will erode the ESM. In a post 2004 EU the thesis takes a bottom-up analysis of the behaviour of two new member states, Hungary and Poland, upon two EU, policy-making case studies to assess the current claim. Firstly, the thesis investigates the current varieties of capitalism within Hungary and Poland to assess the claim that the new member states are a homogenous neoliberal bloc of countries.
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title	Does EU enlargement dis-embed the European social model?
title_short	Does EU enlargement dis-embed the European social model?
title_full	Does EU enlargement dis-embed the European social model?
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Does EU enlargement dis-embed the European social model?

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