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OLGIERDLISSOWSKI
Partnerships,democratizationandrationalization
oftheinstitutionalstructuresoftheEuropeanSocialModel
1.Partnership
Inrecentyearstheword“partnership”,likenootherwordinthelanguageof
documentsanddebatesonthemodernizationofpoliticsandpublicgovernance
hasmadeagreatcareer.Themeaningsandfunctionsassignedtoitvary.Very
oftenitissimplyaninstrumental,revivedpoliticalcatchword.However,the
real-thingconceptsandmodelsofpartnershiparepresentingovernance,poli-
tics,sociology,law,ideology,andmorality.Itisnotpossibletoreconstructor
designauniformterminologicalconventionofpartnershipwithoutreferenceto
aclearlydefinedobjectiveandsituationalcontext.Therefore,itisbettertospeak
ofpartnerships(inplural).Thetextbelowreferstopartnershipcontextswhich
functionorwhichareimplementedwithintheinstitutionalstructuresoftheso-
calledEuropeanSocialModel(ESM)attheEuropeanlevelandpartlyinPo-
land1.
1TheproblemsdiscussedinthischapterarepartofabookEuropejskimodelspołeczny–
zagadnieniamodernizacjiinstytucjonalnej(EuropeanSocialModel–problemsofinstitutional
modernization)preparedforpublicationinPolish.ThereisnosingledefinitionofESM.Thecon-
ceptisusedandpromotedinpoliticalandstrategicdocumentsoftheEuropeanUnionwithrefer-
encetoEuropeanexperiencesconnectedwiththeideaofthesimultaneoussupportofsustainable
economicgrowthandsocialcohesion(See:M.Jepsen,A.S.Pascual,TheEuropeanSocialModel:
anexerciseindeconstruction,EuropeanTradeUnionInstitute,http://seeurope-network.org/home-
pages/seeurope/file_uploads/jep_serr_1003.pdf).TheoriginalEMSconceptisconnectedwith
differentversionsofthewelfarestatedoctrine,althoughitsideologicalsourcesaremuchmore
complex.ThesocialproblemscoveredbyESMarenotuniformlydefined.Itsclassicalareain-
cludesproblemsofsocialpolicyandemployment.However,ESMcanbeunderstoodmorebroad-
lyasasocialdimensionofthesocialmodelofasocialmarketeconomyorevenasitssynonym.
