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Legitimating Austerity: The Politics of Crisis in Southern Europe

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Availability:In StockContributor:Tiago Moreira RamalhoPublish date:3/20/2025Pages:264
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350405295ISBN-10:1350405299UPC:9781350405295Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Public PolicyBook Topic:Economic PolicySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCGDFSKMJ9
This book reexamines the politics of austerity during the euro crisis, challenging conventional narratives of austerity as either an inevitable economic remedy or an external imposition. Focusing on Greece, Portugal, and Spain, it demonstrates that austerity was a political project shaped and contested across domestic, international, and transnational levels. Drawing on extensive empirical material, the book explores how austerity policies were legitimated in southern Europe and how they evolved throughout the crisis. It analyses the construction of crisis narratives, and the critical role of national actors in rooting the crisis in domestic failure. It examines the implementation of austerity policies, revealing how they were justified but also malleable and contingent upon political work. And it shows how austerity was opposed by an increasingly transnational social movement. The book offers critical insights into the politics of crisis management and the contested legacy of austerity in contemporary debates on how to govern the European economy.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Bloomsbury AcademicISBN-13:9781350405295ISBN-10:1350405299UPC:9781350405295Book Category:Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Public PolicyBook Topic:Economic PolicySize:9.21 x 6.14 x 0.63 inchesWeight:1.1905Product ID:SCGDFSKMJ9
Tiago Moreira Ramalho is a Researcher in Political Science at the Université libre de Bruxelles. His research focuses on the politics of international economic governance. He earned his Ph.D. from Sciences Po and has been Visiting Researcher at the University of Cambridge and Visiting Professor at Georgetown University.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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