Socializing the European Semester: EU social and economic policy co-ordination in crisis and beyond
分析了2011至2016年间欧盟社会目标如何逐步融入后危机治理架构，表现为欧洲学期中社会重点的加强、监督强化及社会行为体决策角色提升，对研究欧盟社会政策与经济治理的学者有参考价值。
This contribution analyses how EU social objectives and policy co-ordination have been integrated into the Union’s post-crisis governance architecture. It argues that between 2011 and 2016, there was a partial but progressive ‘socialization’ of the ‘European Semester’ of policy co-ordination, in terms of increasing emphasis on social objectives in its priorities and key messages, including the Country-Specific Recommendations; intensified social monitoring and review of national reforms; and an enhanced decision-making role for EU social and employment actors. In explaining these developments, the contribution highlights the contribution of strategic agency, reflexive learning and creative adaptation by social and employment actors to the new institutional conditions of the Semester, building on recent theoretical work on ‘actor-centred constructivism’ and the ‘usages of Europe’.