(Re-)Framed: Controlling vs. Transforming - Understanding varying social policy crisis responses when comparing the Commision's policy framing during both the pandemic and the Euro crisis
Both the pandemic and Euro crisis posed social risks in terms of unemployment and poverty. Yet, we see a more socially focussed crisis response to the pandemic, whereas the Euro crisis mainly neglected social policy. My thesis asks in how far such social policy crisis response variation can be understood. Hitherto literature usually focusses on instiutionalist arguments that are unable to bridge s