Citizenship and the European Community Book

As the European Community develops a programme of social policies at the transnational level, is a new kind of citizenship emerging? If so, how does European citizenship differ from citizenship at the national level, and how does it affect national citizenship rights?In this timely contribution to the debates on citizenship, Elizabeth Meehan provides an incisive analysis of its meaning, and the links between civil, political and social citizenship. She provides a clear account of the development of social rights within the European community in three key areas: social security and assistance; participation by workers in the undertakings in which they are employed; and the equal treatment of men and women. The author critically assesses the extent to which inequalities of class, gender and ethnicity are successfully addressed by community social policies. Citizenship and the European Community will appeal to a wide readership across the social sciences, and will be of particular interest to academics and students of political studies, social policy, social and political theory, social inequalities and European studies.Read More