Objective
The scientific objective of the research project is to compare different national systems of collective action which are involved in the process of developing, legitimizing and implementing policy innovations in the field of social policy. The policy innovations which are investigated aim directly at the solution of the problem of social integration by contributing to the reintegration of different groups of unemployed, above all unemployed young people, into the labour market and into society in general.
The collective actors on whose forms of conflict and cooperation the research project is focussing are above all situated on the national and intermediary level of institutionalized political decision-making. The general hypothesis is that the effectiveness of systems of collective action in the field of policy innovations aiming at social integration on the one hand depends on the role actors on the intermediary level are playing because they are able to adapt national programs to the pecularities of local and regional conditions and labour markets and to exploit the social integration potential of existing primary and secondary social networks. The effectiveness on the other hand depends on the degree to which the systems of collective action on the intermediary level are not closed but encourage the participation of as many actors as possible and favour and increase the capacities of policy learning ofcollective actors regarding for instance new social policy norms and paradigms such as new social rights and new forms of social solidarity based on the status of citizenship.
On the basis of analyzing statistical data and making interviews with experts on different levels of collective action the project will explore different national systems of conflict and cooperation between collective actors regarding social integration policies and the effectiveness of these systems. As a result of comparing different national systems of collective action in Western Europe (France, Germany, Italy, Switzerland) and in Eastern Europe (the former Eastern Germany, Poland, Bulgaria) the project will be able to identify constellations of actors, institutions and ideas which are favorable and conducive to policy innovations in the field of social integration and to effective policy implementation in this field. The comparison with the countries of Eastern Europe will moreover offer the possibility to observe processes of institution-building in the field of social integration policies and the policy options open to collective actors in these processes. This will yield important informations for collective actors in Western Europe operating within already existing institutional settings which have turned out to have severe deficiencies regarding their social integration capacities. The results of the project will be important for political decisionmakers in the field of social integration policies in the whole of Europe, both inside and outside the European Union. On the basis of the results the project will be able to suggest recommendations for improving existing systems of collective action in Western European countries on the one hand and for building up efficient systems in Eastern European countries undergoing processes of transformation on the other hand. And these recommendations may furthermore serve as orientations for effective policy interventions of the European Union in order to contribute to the solution of the problem of social exclusion and social integration, above all of young people, in the countries of the existing or an enlarged Union.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- social sciences political sciences political policies public policies
- social sciences sociology social issues social inequalities
- social sciences economics and business business and management employment
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60325 Frankfurt-am-Main
Germany
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