Integrating UK and European Social Policy: The Complexity of Europeanisation
The Complexity of Europeanisation

Combines a detailed introduction to the science of complexity and its application to social policy, Europeanisation, globalisation and the EU-UK relationship. This book includes a detailed review of four key policy areas: employment, labour, gender and monetary relations.

Contextualising the EU-UK social policy relationship. Europeanisation, UK social policy and the problem of complexity. What is complexity theory? Using complexity to reinterpret the EU-UK social policy relationship. The European employment strategy and the UK: a case of coincidental convergence. UK equal opportunities policy: the EU as agenda-setter. UK labour market policy: partial Europeanisation. Economic and monetary union: the future of the economic foundation of the UK welfare state. Conclusion: still a journey to an unknown destination.