Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America A Space for Social Citizenship?

The contributors investigate to what extent and how regional organizations in Europe and Latin America provide a space for the regulation and provision of social policies in the area of social protection, higher education and health. Focusing on the European Union, Mercosur and Unasur, they offer an explanation for the developments and changes in social policy governance, and analyse the impact of regional organizations on social citizenship following political struggle and contestation.

Andrea C. Bianculli is Research Fellow at the Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals (IBEI), Spain. Previously she was a post-doctoral fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin and researcher at FLACSO-Argentina. Her research has been published in journals such as Regulation and Governance, Administration and Society, and in a number of edited collections.

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is Visiting Professor at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. She has worked at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro, London School of Economics, and University of Erfurt. She has published widely in the areas of legitimacy, democracy and world politics, comparative regionalism, and EU-Latin American relations.

1.Introduction: Regional Organizations and Social Policy, the Missing Link; Andrea C. Bianculli and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
PART I: CONTEXTUALIZING SOCIAL POLICY IN REGIONAL GOVERNANCE: TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGREEMENTS, STRUCTURAL FUNDS AND DEVELOPMENT BANKS.
2.How Parallel Lines Intersect: Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Regional Social Policies; Stephen Clarkson and Steffen Hindelang
3.Funding Social Policy at the Regional Level: The Andean Development Corporation (CAF) and Social Policy in Bolivia; Marcelo de Almeida Medeiros, Elia Elisa Cia Alves, Ivan Filipe Fernandes and Marcelo Eduardo Alves da Silva
PART II: REGIONAL NORMS AND POLICIES IN THE AREA OF SOCIAL PROTECTION
4.Mercosur and the Struggle against Poverty; Tullo Vigevani and Juliano A. S. Aragusuku
5.Regulating Social Policy in EU and Mercosur: Patterns and Developments in Social Security and Related Areas; Miriam Hartlapp
6.Regional and Domestic Responses to the Unemployment Problem in Europe: Reconfiguring the Architectures of Welfare States; Mariely López Santana
7.Work and Employment in Mercosur from a Gender Perspective: Challenges and Public Policies; Alma Espino
PART III: REGIONAL NORMS AND POLICIES IN THE AREA OF EDUCATION
8.Policy Diffusion and Higher Education Reforms. Between market and state regulation: Where does Mercosur stand?; Mercedes Botto
9. Mercosur's Regional Policies in Higher Education: the Diffusion of Accreditation and Quality Assurance Policies; Daniela Perrotta
10. The EU as a Norm Entrepreneur in Education Policy. An Analysis of the Diffusion of European Ideas and Policies; Tonia Bieber
PART IV: REGIONAL NORMS AND POLICIES IN THE AREA OF HEALTH
11. Conditions for Effective Regional Social (Health) Policies: The EU and Unasur compared; Luk van Langenhove and Stephen Kingah
12. Regional Diffusion of Social Policies and Regional Organizations: The Role of Mercosur in South American Health Governance; Andrea C. Bianculli and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann
13. Regionalism and Health Policy in South America: Tackling Germs, Brokering Norms and Contesting Power; Pía Riggirozzi
14. Regional organizations and Social Policy in Comparative Perspective; Andrea C. Bianculli and Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann