European bi-national marriages in Portugal and EU social integration

EUROPEAN INTEGRATION AND NATIONAL SOCIAL CITIZENSHIP Changing Boundaries, New Structuring?

The deepening of European integration has weakened the traditional coercive monopoly of the state on actors and resources that are crucial for the stability of redistributive institutions. The article explores these issues adopting a “state-building” perspective and drawing on Stein Rokkan’s pioneering insights on boundary building and internal structuring. The first part of the article briefly...

National Identity and Support for European Integration

This paper takes up the familiar question of how one can explain support for European integration. One line of explanation builds on trade theory to theorize a calculus of economic costs and benefits. A second explanation draws on cognitive and social psychology to assess how individuals use political cues—grounded in ideology or elite communication—as a guide to complex issues. A third line dr...

EU Structural and Cohesion Funds in Spain and Portugal: Is Regional and National Inequality Increasing?

The asymmetry of European integration , or why the EU cannot be a ‘ social market economy ’

Judge-made law has played a crucial role in the process of European integration. In the vertical dimension, it has greatly reduced the range of autonomous policy choices in the member states, and it has helped to expand the reach of European competences. At the same time, however, ‘integration through law’ does have a liberalizing and deregulatory impact on the socio-economic regimes of Europea...

CIIP - 3 European Integration and National Social Citizenship : Changing Boundaries , New Structuring ? by Maurizio Ferrera

With the creation of EMU, European Welfare States have entered a new phase of development. The margins for manoeuvring public budgets have substantially decreased, while the unfolding of the four freedoms of movement within the EU have seriously weakened the traditional coercive monopoly of the state on actors and resources that are crucial for the stability of redistributive institutions. The ...