Introduction / Catherine Casey [and others] -- The social roots of the democratic crisis of the EU and the role of trade unions / Francesco Garibaldo -- Euro-democratisation and its alternatives : an analytical framework for organised labour / Roland Erne -- Path dependency and research on...

From the welfare state's origins in Europe, the idea of human welfare being organized through a civilized, institutionalized and uncorrupt state has caught the imagination of social activists and policy-makers around the world. This is particularly influential where rapid social development is...