Maccarrone, VincenzoVincenzoMaccarrone2024-10-242024-10-242021-04Governance0952-1895http://hdl.handle.net/10197/26991Between 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.enThis is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Governance and the European social dimension: Politics, power and the social deficit in a post-2010 EU, Paul Copeland, Routledge, Abingdon, UK, 2020. 222 pp. $160 (cloth). Governance, 34(2), pp. 587-590 which has been published in final form at https://doi.org/10.1111/gove.12583. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Use of Self-Archived Versions. This article may not be enhanced, enriched or otherwise transformed into a derivative work, without express permission from Wiley or by statutory rights under applicable legislation. Copyright notices must not be removed, obscured or modified. The article must be linked to Wiley’s version of record on Wiley Online Library and any embedding, framing or otherwise making available the article or pages thereof by third parties from platforms, services and websites other than Wiley Online Library must be prohibited.Global financial crisisGreat RecessionEuropean economic governanceReview34258759010.1111/gove.125832024-10-15725240GOIPG/2016/1116https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ie/