European Social Policy and the COVID-19 Pandemic

Stefanie Börner is Junior Professor of European Societies at the Department of Social Sciences at the Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg. Dr. Börner's main fields of research are EU integration, the sociology of social policy, social theory, and welfare state transformation. She is the author of Belonging, Solidarity and Expansion in Social Policy (2013) and the editor of several books. Martin Seeleib-Kaiser is Professor of Comparative Public Policy at the Institute of Political Science of Eberhard Karls University Tübingen and Associate Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Intervention, University of Oxford. Dr. Seeleib-Kaiser has held appointments at Duke University and Bremen University, and was a visiting scholar at Shizuoka University, Aalborg University, and the WZB Berlin Social Science Centre. He has authored and edited several books, and is an editor of the Journal of European Social Policy.

Introduction
Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser

Part I: National Welfare Regimes during the COVID-19 Pandemic
1. Policy Legacies, Welfare Regimes, and Social Policy Responses to COVID-19 in Europe
Daniel Béland, Bea Cantillon, Rod Hick, Bent Greve, and Amílcar Moreira
2. Austerity and Adjustment from the Great Recession to the Pandemic--and Beyond
Klaus Armingeon and Stefano Sacchi
3. The Territorial Dynamic of Social Policies during COVID-19 Lockdowns
Tatiana Saruis, Eduardo Barberis, and Yuri Kazepov
4. The UK in Search of a New "Imagined Community"? Social Cohesion, Boundary Building, and Social Policy in Crisis Periods
Matthew Donoghue

Part II: Challenges and Responses in Specific Policy Domains
5. From Crisis to Opportunity? Recalibrating Healthcare in Southern Europe in the Wake of the Pandemic
Emmanuele Pavolini, Maria Petmesidou, Rui Branco, and Ana M. Guillén
6. Locked in Transition: Youth Labour Markets during COVID-19 in the UK, Norway, Estonia, and Spain
Jacqueline O'Reilly, Marge Unt, Rune Halvorsen, Mi Ah Schoyen, Rachel Verdin, Triin Roosalu, and Zyab Ibáñez
7. Enforcement of Minimum Labor Standards and Institutionalized Exploitation of Seasonal Agricultural Workers in the EU
Cecilia Bruzelius and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser
8. Is the Recession a "Shecession"? Gender Inequality in the Employment Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic in Germany
Katja Möhring, Maximiliane Reifenscheid, Andreas Weiland, Klara Kuhn

Part III: EU Social Policy
9. Towards a Real Green Transition? Triple Constraints Holding Back EU Member States' "Greening" Industrial Strategies
Zhen Jie Im, Caroline de la Porte, Elke Heins, Andrea Prontera, Dorota Szelewa
10. COVID-19: An Accelerating Force for EU Activity in Health?
Mary Guy
11. Non-centralized Coordination during a Transboundary Crisis: Examining Coronavirus Pandemic Responses in Four Federal Systems
Natalie Glynn
12. European Integration as Complementary Institution-Building: The Impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic
Georg Vobruba

Epilog
Stefanie Börner and Martin Seeleib-Kaiser