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Politics in the Age of Austerity

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Informationen zum Autor Armin Schäfer is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.Wolfgang Streeck is Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany. Klappentext In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Citizens must be able to influence the course of government through elections and if a change in government cannot translate into different policies, democracy is incapacitated.Many mature democracies are approaching this situation as they confront fiscal crisis. For almost three decades, OECD countries have - in fits and starts - run deficits and accumulated debt. As a result, an ever smaller part of government revenue is available today for discretionary spending and social investment and whichever party comes into office will find its hands tied by past decisions. The current financial and fiscal crisis has exacerbated the long-term shrinking government discretion; projects for political change have lost credibility. Many citizens are aware of this situation: they turn away from party politics and stay at home on Election Day.With contributions from leading scholars in the forefront of sociology, politics and economics, this timely book will be of great interest to students and scholars throughout the social sciences as well as general readers. Zusammenfassung In a world of increasing austerity measures, democratic politics comes under pressure. With the need to consolidate budgets and to accommodate financial markets, the responsiveness of governments to voters declines. However, democracy depends on choice. Inhaltsverzeichnis Contributors vii 1 Introduction: Politics in the Age of Austerity 1 Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck 2 Public Finance and the Decline of State Capacity in Democratic Capitalism 26 Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens 3 Tax Competition and Fiscal Democracy 59 Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz 4 Governing as an Engineering Problem: The Political Economy of Swedish Success 84 Sven Steinmo 5 Monetary Union, Fiscal Crisis and the Disabling of Democratic Accountability 108 Fritz W. Scharpf 6 Smaghi versus the Parties: Representative Government and Institutional Constraints 143 Peter Mair 7 Liberalization, Inequality and Democracy's Discontent 169 Armin Schäfer 8 Participatory Inequality in the Austerity State: A Supply-Side Approach 196 Claus Offe 9 From Markets versus States to Corporations versus Civil Society? 219 Colin Crouch 10 The Normalization of the Right in Post-Security Europe 239 Mabel Berezin 11 The Crisis in Context: Democratic Capitalism and its Contradictions 262 Wolfgang Streeck Notes 287 Index 303 ...

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Armin Schäfer is a researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

Wolfgang Streeck is Managing Director at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies in Cologne, Germany.

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Authors Armin Schäfer, W Streeck, Wolfgang Streeck, Wolfgang Schafer Streeck
Assisted by Schäfer (Editor), Schäfer (Editor), Armin Schäfer (Editor), Wolfgan Streeck (Editor), Wolfgang Streeck (Editor), Streeck Wolfgang (Editor)
Publisher Polity Press
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 01.03.2013
 
EAN 9780745661698
ISBN 978-0-7456-6169-8
No. of pages 240
Series Polity Press
Subjects Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories

Soziologie, Politische Philosophie, Volkswirtschaftslehre, Sociology, Politische Ökonomie, Economics, Ökonomische Soziologie, Sociology of Economics, Political Economics

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