Role of International Organizations in Social Policy

Edited by Rune Ervik, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre AS, Nanna Kildal, Senior Research Fellow, Department of Social Science, NORCE Norwegian Research Centre, Bergen and Even Nilssen, Centre on Law and Social Transformation, Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway

• Contents:Preface1. IntroductionRune Ervik, Nanna Kildal and Even Nilssen2. Comparing Social Policy Ideas Within the EU and the OECD Nanna Kildal3. Directly-deliberative Polyarchy: A Suitable Democracy Model for European Social Policy?Milena Büchs4. Combating Social Exclusion in the European UnionEven Nilssen5. Policy Making and Application of Law: Free Movement of Persons and the European Court of JusticeAksel Hatland and Even Nilssen6. EU and OECD Advice and Changes in German Family Policy: Can Reforms be Attributed to Participation in Learning Processes?Tord Skogedal Lindén7. Policy Actors, Ideas and Power: EU and OECD Pension Policy Recommendations and National Policies in Norway and the UKRune Ervik8. In Search of a New Approach to Pension Policy: The International Labour Office between Internal Tension and External PressureRemi Maier-Rigaud9. Towards a European Convergence in Pension Policy Outputs? Evidence from the OMC on PensionsAxel West Pedersen and Henning Finseraas10. Global Health Policy: What Role for International Governmental Organizations?Christof Schiller, Henni Hensen and Stein KuhnleIndex

'. . . a welcome and highly relevant contribution to the literature on social policy development in a 21st century, globalized world.'