Social Legitimacy in the Internal Market av Jotte (University of Utrecht) Mulder

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This book is concerned with the social legitimacy of internal market law. What does social legitimacy entail within the multi-level ¿embedded liberalism¿ construction of the internal market? How can the objectives of the internal market that focus on economic rights and a commitment to social diversity both be pursued without one necessarily trumping the other? These questions continue to challenge the very core of European integration. How can the diversity of Member States¿ ¿social systems¿ and the varying normative infrastructure of their economies be sustainably accommodated within the internal market? This book seeks to contribute to these questions by discussing what has come to be known as the argument from transnational effects and the development of an adjudicative model for the European Court of Justice that can be termed ¿socially responsive¿. Drawing on the historical insights of Karl Polanyi it argues that the internal market can only be held to be socially legitimate wher