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