The Welfare State 40 years later: The desconstitucionalizacion of the constitutional programme

Authors

  • Gonzalo Maestro Buelga Universidad del País Vasco

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.100.2017.20717

Keywords:

Welfare State, Spanish Constitution, European Union, economic reforms, labour market, Economic and monetary Union.

Abstract

Abstract:
The paper analyzes tensions between elements of the Welfare State inserts in the various constitutions of the European States and the economic conditions imposed by the European Union, especially in the last years of economic crisis. One of the studied examples is the constitutionalization of the principle of budgetary stability. It says in the text that it has «deconstitutionalized» the Welfare State in Spain, as a result of these reforms undertaken in the years of the economic crisis, so have emptied of content clauses of the Welfare State provided for in our Constitution.

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Author Biography

Gonzalo Maestro Buelga, Universidad del País Vasco

Catedrático de Derecho Constitucional. Departamento de Derecho Constitucional e Historia del Pensamiento y de los Movimientos Sociales y Políticos. Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y de la Comunicación. Campus de Leioa. Universidad del País Vasco. Barrio Sarriena, s/n. 48940 Leioa (Bizkaia).

Published

2017-12-20

How to Cite

Maestro Buelga, G. (2017). The Welfare State 40 years later: The desconstitucionalizacion of the constitutional programme. Revista de Derecho Político, 1(100), 769–798. https://doi.org/10.5944/rdp.100.2017.20717

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Section

MONOGRÁFICO XL ANIVERSARIO CONSTITUCIÓN. TÍTULO I. CAPÍTULO III.

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