13 Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents v
3. Tables and Figures viii
4. Acknowledgments x
5. Introduction 3
6. Context
7. Neo-Liberalism in Question? 21
8. Broadening the Frame 40
9. A New Era for Social Policy? 59
10. International Organizations
11. Understanding Policy Change as Position-Taking 87
12. The ILO and Social Protection Policy after the Global Financial Crisis 105
13. The ILO, Greece, and Social Dialogue in the Aftermath of the GFC 121
14. It Takes Two to Tango 140
15. Emerging Areas
16. Integrating the Social into CEPAL’s Neo-Structuralist Discourse 161
17. The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Mexican Social Policy 181
18. Social Policy in South Africa 197
19. In the Shadow of Crisis 216
20. Global North
21. Global Crisis and Social Policy in Peripheral Europe 237
22. Austerity Budgets and Public Sector Retrenchment 254
23. Austerity Lite 272
24. US Incremental Social Policy Expansionism in Response to Crisis 292
25. Conclusion 313
26. Contributors 320
27. Index 325