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Euro-Austerity and Welfare States : Comparative Political Economy of Reform during the Maastricht Decade / H. Tolga Bolukbasi.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: European Union StudiesPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2020]Copyright date: 2021Description: 1 online resource (288 p.) : 1 figureContent type:
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  • 9781487507763
  • 9781487536893
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 330.12/6094 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Euro-Austerity and Europe’s Welfare States -- 2 The Institutionalization of Euro-Austerity -- 3 From Euro-Austerity to Welfare State Retrenchment? -- 4 Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Belgium -- 5 Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Greece -- 6 Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Italy -- 7 Euro-Austerity and the Comparative Political Economy of Reform -- 8 Euro-Austerity – Episode II -- Notes -- References -- Index
Summary: Euro-Austerity and Welfare States analyses the political economy of welfare state reform in the first episode of Euro-austerity during the 1990s. It shows how Europe’s welfare states survived unrelenting pressures stemming from the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) laid out in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. Throughout, H. Tolga Bolukbasi draws lessons for scholars and policy practitioners, and his insightful analysis sheds important light on the second wave of Euro-austerity that set in following the Great Recession of 2008. Paying careful attention to government expenditures and budgetary politics, Bolukbasi analyses the political economy of reform in countries where the EMU’s impact was expected to be greatest. Based on in-depth comparative case studies of Belgium, Greece, and Italy, he shows how scholars, policymakers, and citizens alike expected Euro-austerity to erode Europe’s welfare states. Contrary to popular opinion, Bolukbasi finds that the reality was much more complicated. A thorough critique of the "Euro-austerity hypothesis," this book presents a rigorous comparative study of the resilience of the welfare state in various national contexts.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Euro-Austerity and Europe’s Welfare States -- 2 The Institutionalization of Euro-Austerity -- 3 From Euro-Austerity to Welfare State Retrenchment? -- 4 Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Belgium -- 5 Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Greece -- 6 Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Italy -- 7 Euro-Austerity and the Comparative Political Economy of Reform -- 8 Euro-Austerity – Episode II -- Notes -- References -- Index

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Euro-Austerity and Welfare States analyses the political economy of welfare state reform in the first episode of Euro-austerity during the 1990s. It shows how Europe’s welfare states survived unrelenting pressures stemming from the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) laid out in the Maastricht Treaty of 1992. Throughout, H. Tolga Bolukbasi draws lessons for scholars and policy practitioners, and his insightful analysis sheds important light on the second wave of Euro-austerity that set in following the Great Recession of 2008. Paying careful attention to government expenditures and budgetary politics, Bolukbasi analyses the political economy of reform in countries where the EMU’s impact was expected to be greatest. Based on in-depth comparative case studies of Belgium, Greece, and Italy, he shows how scholars, policymakers, and citizens alike expected Euro-austerity to erode Europe’s welfare states. Contrary to popular opinion, Bolukbasi finds that the reality was much more complicated. A thorough critique of the "Euro-austerity hypothesis," this book presents a rigorous comparative study of the resilience of the welfare state in various national contexts.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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