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In recent years the countries of southern Europe have undergone,
with varying intensity, a serious and prolonged economic crisis.
Most have had to implement comprehensive economic adjustment
programmes, including a wide range of structural reforms. Economic
Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern Europe examines these
reforms, drawing policy lessons from their successes and failures.
This book employs two basic strands of analysis: issues of policy
design, and political economy considerations. It considers the
choice of timing and sequencing of reforms, the choice of the
appropriate policy instruments, the pressure of interest groups and
the political calculations involved in reforms. Featuring chapters
in which contributors explore both national cases of specific
structural reforms, and a comparative approach in order to evaluate
similar reforms across countries, this important and topical work
explores ongoing issues within the economy. Focusing on the
challenges of designing and implementing structural reforms under
conditions of crisis, this book will be of interest to policy
makers and researchers from national and international
organizations as well as academics and members of research
institutes interested in the economics and politics of the Eurozone
crisis.
This book presents the findings of new empirical research regarding
shifts in public discourses and attitudes in Greek society as a
result of the crisis. These findings have shown different shades of
Euroscepticism and anti-German sentiments, but they have also
revealed a normative conflict within Greek society itself. The book
shows how economic crises and strict policy conditionality, causing
or deepening economic recession in the countries receiving it, has
the potential to set in motion a fragmentation process, which
transcends standard material stratification and relates to broader
political and even cultural rifts among the population. With this,
the book serves as a case study of the impact of wider pressures
and shifts weighing upon the European Union (EU) and the way
European societies perceive the integration process. This text will
be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, Greek
and Southern European studies and more broadly to cultural and
comparative politics and political economy and European politics.
This book presents the findings of new empirical research regarding
shifts in public discourses and attitudes in Greek society as a
result of the crisis. These findings have shown different shades of
Euroscepticism and anti-German sentiments, but they have also
revealed a normative conflict within Greek society itself. The book
shows how economic crises and strict policy conditionality, causing
or deepening economic recession in the countries receiving it, has
the potential to set in motion a fragmentation process, which
transcends standard material stratification and relates to broader
political and even cultural rifts among the population. With this,
the book serves as a case study of the impact of wider pressures
and shifts weighing upon the European Union (EU) and the way
European societies perceive the integration process. This text will
be of key interest to scholars and students of EU politics, Greek
and Southern European studies and more broadly to cultural and
comparative politics and political economy and European politics.
This volume uses new empirical evidence and analytical ideas to
study phenomena of fragmentation and exclusion threatening
stability and cohesion in Greek society in the aftermath of the
crisis. The contributors argue that processes of fragmentation and
exclusion provoked by the crisis can be observed on both a material
and an ideational level. On a material level, rising levels of
unemployment, poverty and inequality have produced new social
security "outsiders", while on an ideational level, a
discursive-cultural shift is documented, which has led to new
understandings and categorizations of new (and old) insiders and
outsiders. Moreover, the volume attests to the aspirations, but
also the limitations, of spontaneous civil society mobilization to
address the social crisis. Finally, the volume offers a discussion
of the political management of social fragmentation and exclusion
in Greece both before and after the onset of the crisis. The book
will be of interest to scholars and students of social policy and
phenomena of poverty, social exclusion and economic inequality,
civil society studies, and comparative political economy and
politics.
This volume uses new empirical evidence and analytical ideas to
study phenomena of fragmentation and exclusion threatening
stability and cohesion in Greek society in the aftermath of the
crisis. The contributors argue that processes of fragmentation and
exclusion provoked by the crisis can be observed on both a material
and an ideational level. On a material level, rising levels of
unemployment, poverty and inequality have produced new social
security "outsiders", while on an ideational level, a
discursive-cultural shift is documented, which has led to new
understandings and categorizations of new (and old) insiders and
outsiders. Moreover, the volume attests to the aspirations, but
also the limitations, of spontaneous civil society mobilization to
address the social crisis. Finally, the volume offers a discussion
of the political management of social fragmentation and exclusion
in Greece both before and after the onset of the crisis. The book
will be of interest to scholars and students of social policy and
phenomena of poverty, social exclusion and economic inequality,
civil society studies, and comparative political economy and
politics.
In recent years the countries of southern Europe have undergone,
with varying intensity, a serious and prolonged economic crisis.
Most have had to implement comprehensive economic adjustment
programmes, including a wide range of structural reforms. Economic
Crisis and Structural Reforms in Southern Europe examines these
reforms, drawing policy lessons from their successes and failures.
This book employs two basic strands of analysis: issues of policy
design, and political economy considerations. It considers the
choice of timing and sequencing of reforms, the choice of the
appropriate policy instruments, the pressure of interest groups and
the political calculations involved in reforms. Featuring chapters
in which contributors explore both national cases of specific
structural reforms, and a comparative approach in order to evaluate
similar reforms across countries, this important and topical work
explores ongoing issues within the economy. Focusing on the
challenges of designing and implementing structural reforms under
conditions of crisis, this book will be of interest to policy
makers and researchers from national and international
organizations as well as academics and members of research
institutes interested in the economics and politics of the Eurozone
crisis.
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