UNEMPOL: The contentious politics of unemployment in Europe: political claim-making, policy deliberation, and exclusion from the labor market

• Research unit: EU RFP
• Project number: 00.0388

Key words (English)

Economic Aspects; Scientific Research; Social Aspects

Alternative project number (English)

EU project number: HPSE-CT-2001-00053

Research programs (English)

EU-programme: 5. Frame Research Programme - 4.4 Life sciences for developing countries

Short description (English)

See abstract

Further information (English)

Full name of research-institution/enterprise:
Université de Genève
Laboratoire de recherches sociales et politiques appliquées (resop)

Abstract (English)

This project aims to advance knowledge in labour politics by focusing on the 'contentious politics of unemployment', i.e. the relationship between political institutional approaches to employment policy and political conflicts mobilized by collective actors over unemployment in the public domain.

Key objectives:
(a) to generate original data for longitudinal (1990-2002) and comparative (F, D, I, S,CH, UK) analyses of ideological and policy positions of actors and their relationships;
(b) to investigate the potential for participation of civil society actors in deliberation which favour social dialogue with policy actors;
(c) to study the interaction between EU institutions and national policy domains, and how this may offer political opportunities for the empowerment of citizens.

Original data on the political claim-making in this field are backed up by interviews with key actors in the organizational field at the national and transnational levels.

References in databases (English)

Swiss Database: Euro-DB of the
State Secretariat for Education and Research
Hallwylstrasse 4
CH-3003 Berne, Switzerland
Tel. [phone]
Swiss Project-Number: 00.0388