Europa e nuove direzioni di welfare tra autonomia e convergenza: il modello mixed method nell'analisi delle politiche sociali

Abstract

The contemporary scene of European social policies identifies two precise lines of development. The first is the convergence with the tendency of national contexts towards a unitary system, the European welfare, that comes from the Europeanization process and from the rules of subsidiarity and activation rules concerning the elaborations of the social sciences. As for the second, if we could penetrate deeply into the micro-dimension we could recognize the need to observe the welfare conformations in their local connotation. A European welfare scission, as a unitary system, is what occurs, under the pressure of autonomy and the push to a locally governed welfare system, the local net welfare. The purpose of the work is to outline a new welfare system typology, macro-oriented, but without underestimating the micro dimension, which continues to be very important as concerns the tendency toward communitary integration and the different forms that it wears assumes in different countries and in the local contests of the 27 countries of Europe. We talk about a new model that does not diminish the classifying ability of traditional ones, but attempts to reveal their hard to detect details.