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When soft law overshadows other European resources: Portuguese reconciliation policies and usages of Europe
journal contribution
posted on 2013-10-02, 13:00 authored by Sotirios ZartaloudisIn the analysis of the usages of Europe in Portuguese reconciliation policies presented in this
article, we found a general concordance / temporal sequence between EU and national level
developments. In an overall context of limited policy change induced by the EU, the main
actors using EU resources were political entrepreneurs: firstly, ministerial elites, and
secondly, high-level officials either in government or in the independent bodies for gender
equality. These actors used primarily cognitive and financial resources: the European
Employment Strategy (cognitive usage), and EU funds (strategic usage), whereas legal
resources were not used. Finally, cognitive usage occurred in the beginning of the reform
process (the EU was reform initiator) whereas strategic usage took place to support existing
goals during the reform process (the EU was reform supporter).
History
School
- Social Sciences
Department
- Politics and International Studies
Citation
ZARTALOUDIS, S., 2011. When soft law overshadows other European resources: Portuguese reconciliation policies and usages of Europe. European Journal of Social Security, 13 (1), pp. 106 - 124Publisher
© IntersentiaVersion
- AM (Accepted Manuscript)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2011Notes
This article was published in the serial European Journal of Social Security [© Intersentia]. The definitive version is available at: http://www.ejss.eu/ISSN
1388-2627Publisher version
Language
- en