Vonk, Gijsbert --- "The land of four quarters: The future of European social security law" [2015] ELECD 1185; in Pennings, Frans; Vonk, Gijsbert (eds), "Research Handbook on European Social Security Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 561

Book Title: Research Handbook on European Social Security Law

Editor(s): Pennings, Frans; Vonk, Gijsbert

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781782547327

Section: Chapter 22

Section Title: The land of four quarters: The future of European social security law

Author(s): Vonk, Gijsbert

Number of pages: 14

Abstract/Description:

The chapter deals with the future of EU security law. The possible developments are presented on a raster matrix. The horizontal axis depicts the intensity of the process of European integration. The process may deepen and accelerate (EU united) or it may grind to a halt or even reverse (EU disintegration). The vertical axis depicts the possible evolution of social security between the two extremes of ‘consolidation’ and ‘fragmentation’. The future scenarios must be seen as the results (governance models) ensuing from the four possible combinations which exist in the matrix raster. How do the proposals presented in the other chapters of this book relate to these governance models?