be the source of oppositions and conflicts between different social groups. This is already a very important problem on the national and regional level, but it is an even more important problem when we are speaking about Europe, the European Union
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In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- Research Article
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- 124–137 (14 total)
Note from the Editorial Board
The Challenges of Brexit and COVID
Around Christmas 2020, a deal featuring the “reasonable” divorce between the United Kingdom and the European Union was announced by representatives from both sides. This far-reaching political event—based, from the British side, on an ideology for
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Editorial
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- v–vi
Ian Mahoney and Tony Kearon
—like many other economically deprived, deindustrialized areas of the English Midlands and North—received significant support from the European Union Regional Development Fund (ERDF) which helped to stimulate the local economy, providing employment to those
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2018
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- Research Article
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- 1–20 (20 total)
The Social Consequences of Brexit for the UK and Europe
Euroscepticism, Populism, Nationalism, and Societal Division
Steve Corbett
-running campaign by right-wing Eurosceptic groups for the UK to exit the European Union (EU). Wider societal divisions are revealed by the Brexit (British Exit) vote ( Goodwin and Heath 2016 ), and it is proposed that the social quality approach can be useful to
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2016
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- 11–31 (21 total)
Editorial
A Thematic Issue about Central and Eastern European Societies
Zuzana Reptova Novakova and Laurent van der Maesen
Days after the European Union resolved a dispute with Poland and Hungary over a rule of law mechanism that threatened to halt the bloc's €1.8tn budget and coronavirus recovery fund, the clash between the two sides is widening. Both countries saw
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- Editorial
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- vii–xxi
Gracjan Cimek
Union or as parts the latter's republics. Sometimes, the concept is limited to countries belonging to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) and the European Union ( Orzelska 2013 ). On a conceptual note, I am drawing on the perspective of the
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 93–112 (20 total)
The Social Quality of Citizenship
Three Remarks for Kindling a Debate
Ton Korver
Social rights were to be the completion of the citizenship status of all members within a political community. Through a variety of causes (their entanglement with the goals of full employment and the welfare state, the complexities of the political project of the European Union, and conceptual confusion) the development of these rights has been arrested. The article sketches some of the origins of the present predicament of (social) rights and (social) citizenship. The article is informed by the hope that the arguments it puts forward may contribute to a renewed discussion on the necessity and promises of an EU form of citizenship that is worth instituting and emulating.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2011
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- 45–56 (12 total)
Editorial
Theorizing the Social
According to Leisering in his editorial in this journal, the idea of the “social” not only concerns social services as found in textbooks on social policy, it also “reflects a culturally entrenched notion of the relationship between state and society – a recognition of the tension between the ideal of political equality and socio-economic inequality, and of a collective responsibility by the state for identifying and redressing social problems” (Leisering 2013: 12). Theorizing “social quality” began in Europe at the end of the 1990s, in reaction to the increasing tendency to reduce the European Union’s operation to an “economic project.” In an ideological sense this reduction was legitimated by decoupling the economic dimension from the socio-political and sociocultural dimensions and leaving the latter two to the authority of the EU member states. The presupposition on the part of neoclassical economics and mainstream political and sociological studies of a duality between “the economic” and “the social” paved the way for this move. Therefore social quality scholars started to theorise ‘the social’ anew to go beyond the duality of the economic and the social In practice, nation-based policies became subordinated to the European-oriented financial and economic politics and policies that were being used to address the globalization of production and reproduction relationships (Beck et al. 1997). This shift became seriously strengthened by the revolutionary development and application of new communication technologies.
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Jun 2015
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- Editorial
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- 1–7 (7 total)
Sociocultural Change in Hungary
A Politico-Anthropological Approach
Ferenc Bódi and Ralitsa Savova
Progress and Development The current political processes in Hungary must be seen in the context of what happened there before that country joined the European Union. Hungary was not a sovereign and developed country. It had a society that was socialized
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2020
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- 39–51 (13 total)
further in the new “Post Brexit Declaration on Social Quality in Europe,” recently distributed online and within the context of the UK decision to leave the European Union. The new declaration serves as a warning to other EU member states of the risks of
In The International Journal of Social Quality
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- 01 Dec 2016
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- Editorial
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- v–vi