Neo-liberalism and the Social Unequal Structure; A Pathological Reflection on the Implementing Pattern of Entitlement Justice in EU's Social Policies

This paper seeks to examine the relationship between Neo-liberalism and the social unequal structure. Is Neo-liberalism has been effective in the rise of the social unequal structure in EU, comparing to its past? In this study, we consider the EU's members and their policies from shifting the welfare state toward Neo-liberalism in the past two decades, as a case study. According to the proposed hypothesis, Neo-liberalism by replacing policy of entitlement justice versus distributive justice, that was the representative of the welfare state, has affected the emergence of social and economic unequal structure in advanced Western societies like EU's countries, and caused the Problems in the areas of health, unemployment and retirement. In this paper, firstly we illustrate the Europe Union and its crises. Then, we consider the replacing the neoliberal policies rather than welfare state, and entitlement justice rather than distributive justice. In the following, we define each of these two politics and explain their functions. In the final section, we explore consequences of implementing entitlement model in the Union.