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Europeanization and Domestic Employment Policy Change : Conceptual and Methodological Background

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The article deals with the differential domestic employment policy adaptation to the European Employment Strategy that occurred over the past years in two European countries—Italy and France. Building on the Europeanization and welfare state change literature, the contribution operationalizes the “goodness of fit” hypothesis and develops a “policy structure” approach for the analysis of domestic employment policy change. The main argument is that domestic adaptation to the European Union depends primarily on the preferences of key institutional and social actors, and not on the specific design of domestic institutions. More in general, the article not only supports the validity of the misfit hypothesis but also shows how the nature and intensity of domestic preferences do explain differential patterns of adaptation to Europe (policy transformation in the Italian case, policy adjustment in the French case) in similar conditions of policy “misfit.”

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Governance

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New Jersey : Wiley-Blackwell., 2011

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English

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09521895

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Volume 24, Issue 3, July 2011, pages 583–605

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Europeanization and Domestic Employment Policy

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