Research Catalog

Title

Politics in the age of austerity / edited by Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck.

Publication

Cambridge, UK : Polity, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Streeck, Wolfgang, 1946-
• Schäfer, Armin
• Schäfer, Armin

Description

vi, 320 p. : ill.; 23 cm.

Summary

In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice.

Subject

• OECD
• 2000-2099
• 2000-talet
• Democracy > History > 21st century
• Debts, Public
• Economic policy > History > 21st century
• Capitalism > History > 21st century
• OECD countries > Economic policy

Genre/Form

History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction : politics in the age of austerity / Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck -- Public finance and the decline of state capacity in democratic capitalism / Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens -- Tax competition and fiscal democracy / Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz -- Governing as an engineering problem : the political economic of Swedish success / Sven Steinmo -- Monetary union, fiscal crisis and the disabling of democratic accountability / Fritz W. Scharpf -- Smaghi versus the parties : representative government and institutional constraints / Peter Mair -- Liberalization, inequality and democracy's discontent / Armin Schäfer -- Participatory inequality in the austerity state : a supply-side approach / Claus Offe -- From markets versus states to corporations versus civil society? / Colin Crouch -- The normalization of the right in post-security Europe / Mabel Berezin -- The crisis in context : democratic capitalism and its contradictions / Wolfgang Streeck.

ISBN

• 9780745661681 (hbk.)
• 0745661688 (hbk.)
• 0745661696 (pbk.)
• 9780745661698 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2012277492

OCLC

• 820107673
• SCSB-10653427

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library