Review: Governance and the European social dimension: Politics, power and the social deficit in a post‐2010 EU, PaulCopeland, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 2020. 222 pp. $160 (cloth)

Between 2007 and 2008, a major economic and financial crisis hits the global economy. Although the crisis manifested first in the United States, it soon spreads through Europe. Build- ing on imbalances created by the relaunched process of European integration since the end of the 1980s, the crisis soon became a “double-dip” recession for European and especially Eurozone countries. As social scientists know well, crises offer formidable opportunities to alter the status quo. The recession that started more than a decade ago was no exception, and European Union (EU) policy makers made significant changes to the European economic governance framework during its unfolding.