Four Models of Protecting Citizenship and Social rights in Europe: conclusions to the special issue Rethinking the European Social Market Economy

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2019

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Claassen, R.J.G.ORCID 0000-0001-7314-4986ISNI 0000000044137253
Gerbrandy, A.ORCID 0000-0002-7337-6047ISNI 0000000035837442
Princen, SebastiaanISNI 0000000114392867
Segers, Mathieu

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Abstract

This article offers a synthesis of and conclusion to the contributions included in the Special Issue‘Rethinking the European Social Market Economy’. Based on different understandings of citizen-ship in the European Union and the roles of the EU and its member states in providing social pro-tection arrangements, it develops a typology of four models of the EU’s role in social protection. Itthen discusses the contributions to this Special Issue in light of this typology and draws a numberof overarching conclusions.

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Economic constitution, European integration, Social Market Economy, social justice, social policy, SDG 1 - No Poverty

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Claassen, R J G, Gerbrandy, A, Princen, S B M & Segers, M 2019, 'Four Models of Protecting Citizenship and Social rights in Europe: conclusions to the special issue Rethinking the European Social Market Economy', Journal of Common Market Studies, vol. 57, no. 1, pp. 159-174. https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12821