Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union: Interdisciplinary Perspectives

Starting in the 1980s, competitive pressures and the ideology of competitiveness have shaken and transformed traditional models of development, public policy, and governance in Europe.

This edited book carries out a comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and innovative analysis of the relationship between competitiveness and solidarity in the contemporary European Union. It offers an original contribution to the scholarly debates on the current developments and challenges of welfare states, social and economic policies, and forms of governance in the European Union. Bringing together an international team of cutting-edge scholars in the social sciences and the humanities, Competitiveness and Solidarity in the European Union sheds light on the conceptual richness and policy relevance of these relationships, pointing to important avenues to make the European Union more economically successful and socially fairer.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union studies and, more broadly, of EU Law, Public Policy, Economics, Sociology, Political Science, Geography, and Contemporary History.

Paolo Chiocchetti has a PhD in European Studies from King’s College London. His research focuses on the transformation of Western European party systems, comparative politics, Italian politics, European governance, and socio-economic policy.

Frédéric Allemand is Principal Investigator of the RESuME project (resume.uni.lu) at the Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance of the University of Luxembourg. His research focuses on EU law, Economic and Monetary Union, and European economic governance.