Reducing Inequalities: A Challenge for the European Union? by Renato Miguel Carmo
English | 5 Mar. 2018 | ISBN: 331965005X | 276 Pages | PDF | 3.85 MB
English | 5 Mar. 2018 | ISBN: 331965005X | 276 Pages | PDF | 3.85 MB
This edited collection analyses social inequality in the European Union, within and between countries. The work critically explores both vertical inequality, existing between those with high incomes and low incomes, and horizontal inequality, existing between groups according to nationality, age, ethnicity, and gender.
Reducing Inequalities has been written by leading academics in the field who describe the current social situation in the European Union, focussing on inequality from a multidimensional perspective that includes income, poverty, social exclusion, education. The authors argue that social issues such as these have become national prerogatives for countries within the European Union. In response they ask: How does the European Union engage with inequality today? What principles of social solidarity ought to be applied between states and citizens of the European Union? What should be the role of European Union and its institutions regarding the challenge of reducing inequality?