Four Models of Protecting Citizenship and Social rights in Europe: conclusions to the special issue Rethinking the European Social Market Economy

Abstract

This article offers a synthesis of and conclusion to the contributions included in the Special Issue‘Rethinking the European Social Market Economy’. Based on different understandings of citizen-ship in the European Union and the roles of the EU and its member states in providing social pro-tection arrangements, it develops a typology of four models of the EU’s role in social protection. Itthen discusses the contributions to this Special Issue in light of this typology and draws a numberof overarching conclusions.