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Research Area SPA - Social Policy Analysis: Social Structures & Integration
Up till now European Social Policy has tended to develop through 'negative' incentives, i.e. by way of accommodating to the implications of the internal market (in particular the free mobility of persons and services) and as a reaction to the crises of the (national) welfare state. Nation states and socio-economic interest groups organized nationally have thus slowly, albeit steadily, ceased to be the major or sole agenda-setters in social policy. Increasingly, however - and this will constitute the major challenge of the 21st century - for the demand is being leveled to articulate a coherent European Social Policy including a stance on the role of the state as regulator and, specifically, the extent to which the latter can continue to 'correct' the inequality arising from the operations of the free market. Future European Social Policy will have to consider the role of civil society in the process of European integration as well as the changing face of 'inequality', as new risk groups are emerging, not least among the working population.
Social policy research at the ICCR contributes to this new agenda of European Social Policy. It focuses on the role of social structures, actors and institutions and how they influence policy-making in Member States, the accession countries and the European Union and explores the emerging 'meaning' of European citizenship in the framework of economic and political integration.
Research Area SPA - Projects
CYPRUS YOUTH
Development of Targeted Programs for Unemployed Youth in Cyprus
ELOST
E-government for Low Socio-economic Status Groups
KNOWLEDGE NETWORK
Knowledge Network, Governance in Action
NODE-GOTERGLO
Governance, Territoriality and Europeanisation – Whither Welfare Regimes
ACTIVAGE
Overcoming the Barriers and Seizing the Opportunities for Active Ageing Policies in Europe
SILC-PILOT
Statistical Services in the Field of EU-SILC
SILC
Statistical services in the field of income, poverty and social exclusion and the new instrument on income and living conditions replacing the ECHP
LINK
Transnational Integration Policies Through Social Policy Co-operation
PEN-REF
Public Participation and the Pension Policy Process: The Citizen and Pension Reform
IMPACT
The Housing Dimension of Social Exclusion: Impact Analysis of Policies, Performance Measurements of Services and quality Standards
HOMELESS97
Reintegration Schems for the Homeless in Austria
FEMMIG
Gender and ethnicity: An exploration into the meaning of difference at the subjective level. The experience of ethnic identity of migrant women
EUROHOME
Emergency and Transitory Housing for Homeless People: Needs and Best Practices
HOMELESS96
Youth homelessness in Austria
HOMELESS95
Insecurity of Tenure and Homelessness in Austria
SOCIAL
European Community Household Panel Survey (ECHP) Austria
LOCIN
Politics of Multiculturalism at the City Level
MULTICULT
Migration, Cultural Consumption and multi-cultural integration. The Culture of the Others
JEWETHNIC
Jewish Identity as a Paradigm for ‘Multiple Ethnicity’ and Multicultural Integration