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mods: The politics of bad options why the Eurozone's problems have been so hard to resolve Walter, Stefanie creator author. Ray, Ari author. Redeker, Nils author. Oxford University Press text bibliography Electronic books. enk 2020 First edition. monographic eng remote 1 online resource Why was the Eurozone crisis so difficult to resolve? Why was it resolved in a manner in which some countries bore a much larger share of the pain than other countries? Why did no country leave the Eurozone rather than implement unprecedented austerity? Who supported and opposed the different policy options in the crisis domestically, and how did the distributive struggles among these groups shape crisis politics? Building on macro-level statistical data, original survey data from interest groups, and qualitative comparative case studies, this book argues and shows that the answers to these questions revolve around distributive struggles about how the costs of the Eurozone crisis should be divided among countries, and within countries, among different socioeconomic groups. Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction: Bad Options and Difficult Choices in the Eurozone Crisis -- Short Primer on the Eurozone Crisis -- Unequal Distribution of Crisis-Resolution Costs -- Bad Options, Difficult Choices -- Argument in Brief -- Plan of the Book -- Putting the Eurozone Crisis in Context: Country-Level Vulnerability Profiles -- Interest Group Vulnerability Profile and Crisis Resolution Preferences -- Crisis Politics -- Conclusion -- 2. Putting the Eurozone Crisis Experience in Perspective -- Argument: Vulnerability Profiles and Crisis Responses -- Weighing Bad Options: The Potential Costs of External and Internal Adjustment -- Relative Costs of Adjustment: Vulnerability Profiles and Policy Responses -- Research Design -- Sample Selection: Identifying Balance-of-Payment Crises -- Operationalization: Vulnerability Profiles -- How is the Euro Crisis Different? Putting the Eurozone Crisis in Context -…