Bullettin n. 1/2011
June 2011
CONTENTS
  • Section A) The theory and practise of the federal states and multi-level systems of government
  • Section B) Global governance and international organizations
  • Section C) Regional integration processes
  • Section D) Federalism as a political idea
    • JONATHON W. MOSES
    Is Constitutional Symmetry Enough? Social Models and Market Integration in the US and Europe
    in Journal of Common Market Studies , Volume 49, Issue 4, July 2011 ,  2011 ,  823-843
    By comparing US and European efforts at market integration, this article questions the commonly held notion that Europe's market integration can continue without undermining its nation-based models of social protection. Three recent ECJ decisions (Viking, Laval and Rüffert) seem to confirm Scharpf's (2002) assertion that the EU suffers from constitutional asymmetry. By contrasting these developments with the earlier integration of US markets – where a rough constitutional symmetry can be said to exist – the article concludes that constitutional symmetry, in itself, is probably insufficient to protect the sort of corporatist arrangements that undergird northern European social models.
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