The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

doi:10.46692/9781447359531

Experts from around the world review the complex and rapidly changing politics and policies of austerity in this comprehensive collection of essays. The book details the many different means and expressions of austerity since the financial crisis of 2008, as well as backlashes and emerging political alternatives.

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Frontmatter
pp i-ii

Contents
pp iii-iv

List of figures and tables
pp v-vi

Notes on contributors
pp vii-xii

Acknowledgements
pp xiii-xiv

Introduction
pp 1-22

PART I - Austerity and the promotion of the private
pp 23-24

1 - Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnership scandals
pp 25-41

2 - Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: the implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards as crisis response
pp 42-60

PART II - Coping and casualties: labour and the social
pp 61-62

3 - A fragile triangle: collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU
pp 63-81

4 - Privatizing the sacrifice: individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland
pp 82-102

5 - Austerity and the social innovation agenda
pp 103-124

PART III - Beyond coping: protest, pathologies and the development of real alternatives
pp 125-126

6 - Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization
pp 127-146

7 - There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics
pp 147-175

8 - Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain
pp 176-194

9 - Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives
pp 195-212

10 - Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right
pp 213-229

11 - Reducing the burden: international struggles against illegitimate debt
pp 230-247

12 - The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism
pp 248-271

13 - Austerity after COVID-19: from emergency pragmatism to inclusive economic governance in Europe
pp 272-291

Conclusion
pp 292-300

Index
pp 301-312

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