Stefanie Börner is Junior Professor of European Societies at the Department of Social Sciences at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Dr. Börner's main fields of research are EU integration, the sociology of social policy, social theory, and welfare state transformation. She is the author of Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in Social Policy (2013) and the editor of several books.
Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and Associate Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. Dr. Seeleib-Kaiser has held appointments at Duke University and Bremen University, and was a visiting scholar at Shizuoka University, Aalborg University, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. He has authored and edited several books, and is an editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.

• Introduction


• Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser


• Part I: National Welfare Regimes during the COVID-19 Pandemic


• 1. Policy Legacies, Welfare Regimes, and Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Europe


• Daniel Béland, Bea Cantillon, Rod Hick, Bent Greve, and Amílcar Moreira


• 2. Austerity and Adjustment from the Great Recession to the Pandemic--and Beyond


• Klaus Armingeon and Stefano Sacchi


• 3. The Territorial Dynamic of Social Policies during COVID-19 Lockdowns


• Tatiana Saruis, Eduardo Barberis, and Yuri Kazepov


• 4. The UK in Search of a New "Imagined Community"? Social Cohesion, Boundary Building, and Social Policy in Crisis Periods


• Matthew Donoghue


• Part II: Challenges and Responses in Specific Policy Domains


• 5. From Crisis to Opportunity? Recalibrating Healthcare in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Pandemic


• Emmanuele Pavolini, Maria Petmesidou, Rui Branco, and Ana M. Guillén


• 6. Locked in Transition: Youth Labour Markets during COVID-19 in the UK, Norway, Estonia, and Spain


• Jacqueline O'Reilly, Marge Unt, Rune Halvorsen, Mi Ah Schoyen, Rachel Verdin, Triin Roosalu, and Zyab Ibáñez


• 7. Enforcement of Minimum Labor Standards and Institutionalized Exploitation of Seasonal Agricultural Workers in the EU


• Cecilia Bruzelius and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser


• 8. Is the Recession a "Shecession"? Gender Inequality in the Employment Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany


• Katja Möhring, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Andreas Weiland, Klara Kuhn


• Part III: EU Social Policy


• 9. Towards a Real Green Transition? Triple Constraints Holding Back EU Member States' "Greening" Industrial Strategies


• Zhen Jie Im, Caroline de la Porte, Elke Heins, Andrea Prontera, Dorota Szelewa


• 10. COVID-19: An Accelerating Force for EU Activity in Health?


• Mary Guy


• 11. Non-centralized Coordination during a Transboundary Crisis: Examining Coronavirus Pandemic Responses in Four Federal Systems


• Natalie Glynn


• 12. European Integration as Complementary Institution-Building: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic


• Georg Vobruba


• Epilog


• Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

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European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges to National Welfare and EU Policy provides an encompassing and longer-term analysis of the social policy responses of European countries, as well as the European Union (EU), to the challenges of the pandemic. The book asks in which direction the European welfare states, on the one hand, and EU social policy, on the other, are developing as a result of the pandemic with respect to polity, politics, and policy instruments. The issues raised not only concern the future of welfare states in Europe but also EU-level social-policy making and European integration in general.