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The changing politics and policy of austerity /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: McBride, Stephen, 1947- (Editor), Evans, Bryan, 1960- (Editor), Plehwe, Dieter (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Economic policy > History > 21st century.
Debts, Public.
2000-2099
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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
  • 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