Converging Europe : transformation of social policy in the enlarged European Union and in Turkey / edited by İpek Eren Vural.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Lisbon strategy and social policy in the enlarged European Union and in Turkey / Ipek Eren Vural -- Lisbon strategy and European integration -- European integration and social policy reform / Hans-Jürgen Bieling -- Socio-economic convergence in the European Union : conceptualisation and measurement issues / Julia S. O'Connor -- Lisbon agenda, new structural policy and social cohesion in times of economic crisis / Otto Holman -- Reform dynamics in old Europe -- Pension reforms in Europe : directions and consequences / Karl Hinrichs -- Ideas, institutions, and interest in European and national reforms of employment and social policy : the case of flexicurity / Marcel Fink -- Eastern enlargement and european social model -- The politics of welfare restructuring in transition countries and the crisis of 2008 / Jan Drahokoupil and Martin Myant -- EU integration and post-communist welfare : catch-up convergence before and after the economic crisis / Noèmi Lendvai -- European integration and social policy transformation in Turkey -- Domestic social policy change due to the pressures of European integration : equality between women and men at work and women's employment policies in Turkey / Asuman Göksel -- Discourse and practice of poverty reduction strategies : reflections on the Turkish case in the 2000s / Galip L. Yalman -- European integration, social policy and the Lisbon strategy -- Social outcomes of the lisbon strategy and beyond / Ipek Eren Vural.