Ebook: The Role of International Organizations in Social Policy: Ideas, Actors and Impact

This book illustrates how welfare policy is shaped by the interplay between national and international policymakers. The authors focus on the role of ideas rather than revisiting the more commonly discussed economic and technological issues associated with internationalization of welfare policy. They explore the content of ideas that international actors such as the EU and the OECD are promoting through recommendations and decrees concerning various systems of social policy. The possible effects of national and supranational welfare discourses on national welfare systems are also discussed.