What is the nature of the European Union? Does it have the characteristics of a state, and if so, which? We employ a single imagea poster that won a Marshall Plan competition in 1950to examine the various legal perspectives of the EU that have emerged over the past six decades. Created as a...

What is the nature of the European Union? Does it have the characteristics of a state, and if so, which? We employ a single imagea poster that won a Marshall Plan competition in 1950to examine the various legal perspectives of the EU that have emerged over the past six decades. Created as a...

Welfare state futures / Stephan Leibfried and Herbert Obinger -- Towards a theory of the welfare state / Franz-Xaver Kaufmann -- The dog that didn't bark: economic development and the postwar welfare state / Francis G. Castles -- How do welfare states change? Institutions and their impact on the...