| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 276 pages ): illustrations |
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Cover -- titlepage -- copyright -- dedication -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 Introduction -- Introduction -- The puzzle and research question -- Existing explanations for social democratic austerity and their shortcomings -- Outline of the argument -- The electoral pressures for social democratic austerity -- The ideational pressures for social democratic austerity -- Paradigm change, social democrats, and the Great Recession -- Research design and methods -- Outline of the book -- Extended literature review and theoretical framework |
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The response of social democratic parties to the Great Recession -- The popular politics of austerity: studying the demand side of politics -- The elite politics of austerity: studying the supply side of politics -- The electoral consequences of social democratic austerity -- 2 Social Democratic Austerity: A Theoretical Framework -- Introduction -- Social democratic parties and macroeconomic policies before and during the Great Recession -- Existing explanations for social democratic austerity -- A new explanation for social democratic austerity |
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The electoral foundations of social democratic austerity -- The ideational foundations of social democratic austerity -- Social democratic parties, paradigm change, and the Great Recession -- Conclusion -- 3 The Programmatic Response of Social Democratic Parties to the Great Recession -- Introduction -- Party positions, issue salience, and the economy -- The response of social democratic parties to the Great Recession: some expectations -- Data and methods -- Social democratic parties and the crisis: changes in issue emphasis -- Social democratic parties and the crisis: changes in issue positions |
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Conclusion -- 4 Attitudes towards Austerity: Analysing the Public's Debt Aversion during the Eurozone Crisis -- Introduction -- Public preferences towards fiscal consolidation -- Differences in debt aversion across individuals and countries -- Individual-level factors -- Country-level factors -- Data and methods -- Empirical results -- Differences in debt aversion across time and space -- Individual-level correlates -- Individual- and country-level correlates -- Conclusion -- 5 Public Opinion Regarding Fiscal Consolidation in the Face of Trade-offs: Evidence from survey experiments |
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Introduction -- Public opinion on fiscal policies: do citizens have inconsistent preferences? -- Taking trade-offs seriously: from policy positions towards priorities -- Research design -- Part 1: experiment with split-sample questions -- Part 2: conjoint survey experiment -- Measuring attitudes towards fiscal consolidation with trade-offs -- Attitudes towards two-dimensional fiscal policy trade-offs -- Attitudes towards multidimensional fiscal policy trade-offs -- Conclusion -- 6 The Fiscal Policies of the British Labour Party in Times of Crisis: Where Have All the Keynesians Gone? |
| Summary |
This text explores how austerity came to be the predominant fiscal policy response to the Great Recession in Europe, even for centre-left governments. It examines the political consequences of this response, combining qualitative and quantitative methods and drawing on a wide range of empirical evidence |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record |
| Subject |
Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 -- Influence.
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Socialism -- Europe -- History -- 21st century
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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Economic history
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Economic policy
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Socialism
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Economics.
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Economics.
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Europe -- Economic conditions -- 1945-
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85045677
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Europe -- Economic policy
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Europe -- History -- 1989- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93008826
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| Subject |
Europe
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191968433 |
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0191968439 |
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0192872389 |
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9780192872388 |
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