TY  - BOOK
AU  - Bolukbasi,H.Tolga
TI  - Euro-Austerity and Welfare States: Comparative Political Economy of Reform during the Maastricht Decade 
T2  - European Union Studies
SN  - 9781487507763
U1  - 330.12/6094 23
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Toronto
PB  - University of Toronto Press
KW  - Welfare state
KW  - Belgium
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Greece
KW  - Italy
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Euro-austerity
KW  - Europe
KW  - Great Recession
KW  - Maastricht Treaty
KW  - austerity
KW  - economics
KW  - international relations
KW  - reform
KW  - welfare state
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.3138/9781487536893
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781487536893
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781487536893/original
ER  -