Author's Keywords: Europeanization; Open Method of Coordination; active labor market policy; employment policy; soft-law; policy-making process; European Union; Spain; Sweden; Belgium; welfare reform; European Employment Strategy; intergovernmental relations.	Convention All Academic Convention can solve the abstract management needs for any association's annual meeting. Submission - Custom fields, multiple submission types, tracks, audio visual, multiple upload formats, automatic conversion to pdf. Review - Peer Review, Bulk reviewer assignment, bulk emails, ranking, z-score statistics, and multiple worksheets! Reports - Many standard and custom reports generated while you wait. Print programs with participant indexes, event grids, and more! Scheduling - Flexible and convenient grid scheduling within rooms and buildings. Conflict checking and advanced filtering. Communication - Bulk email tools to help your administrators send reminders and responses. Use form letters, a message center, and much more! Management - Search tools, duplicate people management, editing tools, submission transfers, many tools to manage a variety of conference management headaches! Click here for more information.
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Lopez-Santana, Mariely. "SOFT EUROPEANIZATION?: THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY IN PROCESSES AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN EU MEMBER STATES" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL, Sep 02, 2004 <Not Available>. 2009-05-26 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60391_index.html>

Lopez-Santana, M. , 2004-09-02 "SOFT EUROPEANIZATION?: THE INFLUENCE OF THE EUROPEAN EMPLOYMENT STRATEGY IN PROCESSES AND EMPLOYMENT POLICIES IN EU MEMBER STATES" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Political Science Association, Hilton Chicago and the Palmer House Hilton, Chicago, IL Online <.PDF>. 2009-05-26 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p60391_index.html

Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript Review Method: Peer Reviewed Abstract: The Treaty of Amsterdam formalized the idea of a ‘European Employment Strategy’ (EES), a supranational instrument to boost European employment rates and competitiveness. The European strategy is ruled by the ‘Open Method of Coordination’ (OMC), a new governance regulatory instrument for developing the ‘social dimension’ of the European Union that is not legally binding and is voluntary in nature. This paper proposes a theoretical framework to understand how non-binding measures, specifically the EES, influence policy-making processes and outcomes on member States. To sustain and illustrate my argument, I present data from interviews conducted in Sweden, Spain and Belgium, and from patterns of spending on active and passive labor market policy in fifteen member States. This paper seeks to expand the literature on ‘Europeanization’ of domestic configurations by providing a theoretical framework to analyze how non-binding measures affect policy-making processes in member States. In addition, it makes a contribution to the policy-making literature by trying to comprehend: a) the relationship between ‘soft institutions and instruments’ and the process of policy-making; b) policy settings that do not necessarily require the creation of legislation; and finally c) how exogenous, i.e., non-domestic, inputs affect policy-making processes on domestic settings. The analysis is grounded on the reasoning researchers should open the ‘black box of policy-making’ when understanding the effect of non-binding and non-domestic governance instruments.

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