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Book SynopsisExperts 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: The changing politics and policy of austerity - Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride and Dieter Plehwe Part 1: Austerity and the promotion of the private 1. Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnerships scandals - Heather Whiteside 2. Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: The implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) as crisis response - Sebastian Botzem Part 2: Coping and casualties: Labour and the social 3. A fragile triangle: Collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU - Steffen Lehndorff 4. Privatizing the sacrifice: Individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland - Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, Philip James and Chandrima Roy 5. Austerity and the social innovation agenda - Meghan Joy, John Shields, Sharon Broughton and Siu Mee Cheng Part 3: Beyond coping: Protest, pathologies and the development of real alternatives 6. Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization - Stephen McBride and Joy Schnittker 7. There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics - Dieter Plehwe and Moritz Neujeffski 8. Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain - Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride and James Watson 9. Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives - Ingo Schmidt 10. Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right - Hans-Jürgen Bieling 11. Reducing the burden: International struggles against illegitimate debt - Christoph Sorg 12. The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism - Jim Stanford 13. Austerity after COVID-19: Towards inclusive economic governance in Europe - Hans-Jürgen Urban and Sebastian Bödeker 14 Conclusion - Stephen McBride, Dieter Plehwe and Bryan Evans
