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"Social policy in Western Europe - between convergence and diversity"
Kroutilová, Marcela ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Munková, Gabriela (referee)
The aim of this thesis is to analyze the situation of the social policy in Western Europe and to find out whether a possible unifiyng deffmition of the European social model exists. Actually the thesis diferentiates between two levels. The first one is the intergovernmental level of the national states and the second one is the level of the European Union. In the frame of the comparative analysis we can estimate wheter or not are the national states able to create homogenous units according to their common characteristics (typologies) and survey the possible ways of their future development. Another question here is to what extent will the social policy be pursued on the level of the European Union, which becomes slowly an important player also in the European social policy field, which was not the fact several years ago. European Union itself is a very specific cluster and its frame we can observe the participation of raising amount of social actors and also many new initiatives that are leading to the widening and deepening of the whole social agenda. We can conlude that the national states are still playing the main role in the social policy field, but it is more and more limited by endogenous pressures and European economic integration. Even though the creation of a homogenous "Social Europe" is...

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