The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

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The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

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Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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This collection of original essays explores the myriad expressions of austerity since the 2008 financial crisis. Case studies drawn from Canada, Australia and the European Union provide extensive comparative analysis of fiscal consolidation and the varied political responses against austerity. Contributions examine such themes as privatization, class mobilization and resistance, the crisis of liberal democracy and the rise of the far right. The potential impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in shaping future austerity and alternatives is signalled. Given the rapidly shifting terrain, this comprehensive handbook provides important insights into a complex and fast-changing period of politics and policy.

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Social Sciences Political Science Domestic Policy, Parties, Other Political Organizations

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Front Matter
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Contents
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List of figures and tables
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Notes on contributors
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Acknowledgements
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Introduction
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Bryan Evans, Dieter Plehwe and Stephen McBride

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Austerity and the promotion of the private
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Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnership scandals
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Heather Whiteside

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Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: the implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards as crisis response
42
Sebastian Botzem

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Coping and casualties: labour and the social
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A fragile triangle: collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU
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Steffen Lehndorff

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Privatizing the sacrifice: individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland
82
Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, Philip James and Chandrima Roy

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Austerity and the social innovation agenda
103
Meghan Joy, John Shields, Sharon Broughton and Siu Mee Cheng

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Beyond coping: protest, pathologies and the development of real alternatives
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Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization
127
Stephen McBride and Joy Schnittker

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There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics
147
Dieter Plehwe and Moritz Neujeffski

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Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain
176
Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride and James Watson

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Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives
195
Ingo Schmidt

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Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right
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Hans-Jürgen Bieling

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Reducing the burden: international struggles against illegitimate debt
230
Christoph Sorg

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The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism
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Jim Stanford

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Austerity after COVID-19: from emergency pragmatism to inclusive economic governance in Europe
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Hans-Jürgen Urban and Sebastian Kramer

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Conclusion
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Stephen McBride, Dieter Plehwe and Bryan Evans

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Index
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The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

Overview

About this book

Topics

Table of contents

Front Matter

Contents

List of figures and tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnership scandals

Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: the implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards as crisis response

A fragile triangle: collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU

Privatizing the sacrifice: individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland

Austerity and the social innovation agenda

Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization

There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics

Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain

Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives

Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right

Reducing the burden: international struggles against illegitimate debt

The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism

Austerity after COVID-19: from emergency pragmatism to inclusive economic governance in Europe

Conclusion

Index

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