Europeanization and Domestic Employment Policy Change: Conceptual and Methodological Background

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Graziano, Paolo Roberto
• 刊物名称: GOVERNANCE-AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF POLICY ADMINISTRATION AND INSTITUTIONS
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0952-1895
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0491.2011.01533.x
• 发表日期: 2011
• 关键词: social citizenship; WELFARE-STATE; strategy; france; unemployment; REFORM; IMPACT; faces

摘要

The article deals with the differential domestic employment policy adaptation to the European Employment Strategy that occurred over the past years in two European countries-Italy and France. Building on the Europeanization and welfare state change literature, the contribution operationalizes the goodness of fit hypothesis and develops a policy structure approach for the analysis of domestic employment policy change. The main argument is that domestic adaptation to the European Union depends primarily on the preferences of key institutional and social actors, and not on the specific design of domestic institutions. More in general, the article not only supports the validity of the misfit hypothesis but also shows how the nature and intensity of domestic preferences do explain differential patterns of adaptation to Europe (policy transformation in the Italian case, policy adjustment in the French case) in similar conditions of policy misfit.