The changing politics and policy of austerity


edited by Stephen McBride and Bryan Evans.
Bok Engelsk 2021 · Electronic books.
Medvirkende
Evans, Bryan, (editor.)
McBride, Stephen, (editor.)
Omfang
1 online resource (328 pages)
Utgave
1st ed.
Opplysninger
Includes index.. - Front Cover -- The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of figures and tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- End of the post- war Golden Age -- The multiple crisis: the 21st century's accumulating fault lines -- The 'new times' of COVID- 19 -- References -- PART I Austerity and the promotion of the private -- 1 Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnership scandals -- Austerity and public infrastructure -- PPP scandals -- Market monopolization -- Corruption, bankruptcy and ineptitude -- Equity sales and offshoring -- Beyond austerity -- PPP-led stimulus? -- Pro-public strategies -- Pandemic-driven pandemonium -- Global turbulence -- Market winnowing -- Nationalization -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: the implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards as crisis response -- Accounting standardization in an interconnected world -- European budgetary surveillance in the name of financial markets -- EPSAS as a tool for budgetary governance -- Agents of austerity accounting -- Conclusion -- References -- PART II Coping and casualties: labour and the social -- 3 A fragile triangle: collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU -- An attack on the collective bargaining systems ... -- ... with differing effects -- Collective bargaining: dependent on the government or should the state be forced into assuming responsibility? -- Socio-political autonomy -- Planting a social foreign body in the economic governance of the EU -- References -- 4 Privatizing the sacrifice: individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland -- Contexts -- Austerity -- The National Disability Insurance Scheme.. - Canada -- Conclusion -- References -- 9 Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives -- Theory: what makes you think that? -- Market populism: I ain't gonna work for the taxman no more -- The new right: we like livin' right and bein' free -- The left: where do you think you're going? -- References -- 10 Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right -- Aspects of a political economy perspective on populism in the European Union -- Austerity and right-wing populism -- Prospects: right-wing populism and its contradictions -- References -- 11 Reducing the burden: international struggles against illegitimate debt -- Contentious debt politics from the southern debt crisis ... -- ... to the North Atlantic financial crisis -- What can we learn from debt-centred movements? -- 12 The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism -- 13 Austerity after COVID-19: from emergency pragmatism to inclusive economic governance in Europe -- References -- Conclusion -- Where do we go from here? How do we get there? -- References -- Index -- Back Cover.. - Personalization of self-directed care in Scotland -- The studies -- Findings -- Comparing NDIS and SDS -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Austerity and the social innovation agenda -- The social innovation agenda -- Benchmarking -- Governance -- Devolution -- Responsibilization -- Conclusion -- References -- Part III Beyond coping: protest, pathologies and the development of real alternatives -- 6 Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization -- Constitutionalization as an alternative to politics -- Integration through crisis -- The European Union's pandemic response -- Reversal of neoliberal constitutionalism? Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization -- References -- 7 There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics -- Independent advisory bodies in the field of German economic and social policy -- German advisory bodies in economic and social policy areas -- The German Council of Economic Experts (GCEE) -- The academic advisory councils of the Ministries of Economics (FMEAE) and Finance (FMFA) -- The Social Advisory Council (SAC) -- Individual level survey data, document analysis and news media analysis -- Institutional affiliation of board members -- Survey results: austerity perspectives, think tank relations -- Media presence of members of the four academic councils -- The councils and the policy process -- The pension reforms of 2001 and 2004 -- Federalism/debt brake -- Hartz labour market reform -- Minimum wage -- Lessons from the policy process -- Conclusion -- References -- 8 Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain -- Impact of austerity on social concertation -- Denmark -- Supranational: EU -- National -- Spain -- Supranational: EU -- National -- Ireland -- Supranational: EU -- National.. - 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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1-4473-5952-6. - 1-4473-5953-4. - 1-4473-5954-2

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