Social rights after the European financial crisis: the constitution of the welfare state under pressure

A comparative study of the Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy systematizes the reforms in nine European countries affected by the financial crisis in the field of social protection. The project embeds the reforms in social protection in the constitutional framework of each country, by investigating the ways in which the application of constitutional law has changed during the crisis and the impact that this change had on social rights and the welfare state as a whole.