Parliamentary Roots of European Social Policy

Mechthild Roos is Lecturer in Comparative Politics, Augsburg University, Germany.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: The parliamentarisation of a consultative assembly.- Chapter 2. Conceptualising the European Parliament’s gain in power, 1952-1979.- Chapter 3. The institutional evolution of the European Parliament prior to 1979.- Chapter 4. Creating a borderless Europe: The European Parliament’s activism in the pursuit of a free movement of persons.- Chapter 5. Emancipating Europe: The European Parliament’s involvement in Community equality policy.- Chapter 6. Forging Europe’s next generations: The European Parliament’s children and youth policy.- Chapter 7. Controlling the purse: How the European Parliament shaped social policy through the European Social Fund.- Chapter 8. Conclusion: The making of a parliament.