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Contesting Austerity - A Socio-Legal Inquiry (Paperback)
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Contesting Austerity - A Socio-Legal Inquiry (Paperback)
Series: Onati International Series in Law and Society
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This book addresses the different forms of austerity, contestation
and resistance, in order to understand how they relate to one
another and the impact they have on the democratic quality of
public debates, the trust in public institutions and the legitimacy
of law. Contestation of austerity includes not only traditional
activism strategies such as human rights litigation and direct
democracy instruments, but also new forms of collective action and
collaborative resistance. Most importantly, many of the new
anti-austerity initiatives also aim to renovate existing modes of
democratic decision-making on the European, national, regional and
local levels. The book focuses on different types of contesting
austerity measures and the interaction between institutional and
civil society actors. It will enhance understanding of how the
various actors frame not only their goal but also the underlying
social conflict to contest austerity and through which means they
try to achieve political and legal changes. With 16 chapters
written by contributors from Spain, Germany, Greece, Portugal and
the UK, the book approaches 3 crucial areas of austerity policies:
cuts in payment and pensions, labour law reform, and old and new
poverty. In each field, the contributors analyse the processes of
decision-making and contestation from 3 perspectives: institutions,
democratic theory and societal responses.
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