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Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe - Threat or Opportunity for a Sustainable Welfare State (Hardcover)
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Economic Crisis and Austerity in Southern Europe - Threat or Opportunity for a Sustainable Welfare State (Hardcover)
Series: South European Society and Politics
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Southern Europe has been hit hard by the global economic crisis
and, as such, their welfare states have come under acute strain.
Unmet need has sharply increased while significant welfare reforms
and deep social spending cuts have been prominent in the crisis
management solutions implemented by governments, labouring under EU
constraints and the strict rescue-deal requirements for Greece and
Portugal. This volume provides a systematic comparative appraisal
of welfare-state reform trajectories across Southern Europe prior
to and during the crisis, and traces the impact of austerity
policies and wider recession upon income inequality and poverty. It
brings together a number of cross-country studies on major social
policy areas, raising crucial questions. What policy choices are
driving reforms as Southern European economies work their way out
of fiscal difficulty? Can the crisis provoke the improvement of
institutional capabilities and recalibration of social? Or,
instead, does structural adjustment indicate a significant policy
turn towards the erosion of social rights? The contributions
critically approach these issues and bring evidence to bear upon
whether Southern European welfare capitalisms are becoming more
dissimilar. This book was originally published as a special issue
of South European Society & Politics.
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