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Record Nr.

UNINA9910554257103321

Autore

Bolukbasi H. Tolga

Titolo

Euro-austerity and welfare states : comparative political economy of reform during the maastricht decade / / H. Tolga Bolukbasi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, Ontario : , : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-4875-3690-9

1-4875-3689-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (288 p.) : 1 figure

Collana

European Union Studies

Classificazione

cci1icc

Disciplina

330.126094

Soggetti

Welfare state - Greece

Welfare state - Belgium

Case studies

Case studies.

Belgium Appropriations and expenditures Case studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Euro-Austerity and Europe's Welfare States -- The Institutionalization of Euro-Austerity -- From Euro-Austerity to Welfare State Retrenchment? -- Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Belgium -- Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Greece -- Euro-Austerity and the Political Economy of Reform in Italy -- Euro-Austerity and the Comparative Political Economy of Reform -- Euro-Austerity--Episode II.

Sommario/riassunto

"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."--