EU Socio-Economic Governance since the Crisis : The European Semester in Theory and Practice (Paperback)

Introduction: the European Semester as a new architecture of EU socioeconomic governance in theory and practice Amy Verdun and Jonathan Zeitlin 1. Socializing the European Semester: EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond Jonathan Zeitlin and Bart Vanhercke 2. Flexicurity in the European Semester: still a relevant policy concept? Sonja Bekker 3. Deciding on the European Semester: the European Council, the Council and the enduring asymmetry between economic and social policy issues Adina Maricut and Uwe Puetter 4. Enforcing the European Semester: the politics of asymmetric information in the excessive deficit and macroeconomic imbalance procedures James D. Savage and David Howarth 5. Cherry-picking external constraints: Latvia and EU economic governance, 2008?2014 Edgars Eihmanis 6. Explaining the evolving role of national parliaments under the European Semester Mark Hallerberg, Benedicta Marzinotto and Guntram B. Wolff 7. Parliamentary accountability in multilevel governance: what role for parliaments in post-crisis EU economic governance? Ben Crum