Politics of Bad Options - Why the Eurozone''s Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve

The book sheds new light on the history of the Eurozone crisis and provides crucial lessons for the way forward.

List of contents

• Introduction


• 1: Bad Options and Difficult Choices in the Eurozone Crisis


• 2: Putting the Eurozone Crisis Experience in Perspective


• 3: Distributive Conflict and Interest Group Preferences in Deficit Countries


• 4: Crisis Politics in Deficit Countries


• 5: Surplus Country Vulnerability to Rebalancing: A Comparative Analysis


• 6: Distributive Conflict and Interest Group Preferences in Surplus Countries


• 7: Crisis Politics in Surplus Countries: Caught between Voter Pressure and Interest Group Stalemate


• 8: Conclusion

About the author

Stefanie Walter is a Full Professor for International Relations and Political Economy at the Department of Political Science at the University of Zurich and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Studies in Zurich. Her publications include Financial Crises and the Politics of Macroeconomic Adjustments (Cambridge University Press, 2013), and she has published in numerous scholarly journals such as American Journal of Political Science, Annual Review of Political Science, European Union Politics, International Organization, and International Studies Quarterly.

Summary

The book sheds new light on the history of the Eurozone crisis and provides crucial lessons for the way forward.

Additional text

I found this is an exciting and very thought provoking book, making me think both more and differently about the Eurozone's crises. First, thinking seriously about the surplus countries (after being so focussed on the pathologies of Southern Europe) is a great and illuminating discipline. Second, and based on distributional conflicts, it provides a carefully thought out and original analytic framework. And third it is seriously - hence really usefully - comprehensive and reliable. Based on Walter's major research programme, it represents the high level of intellectual results which can come from intense and coordinated collaboration.

Product details

• Authors: Ari Ray, Nils Redeker, Stefanie Walter, Stefanie (Full Professor for International Walter, Walter Stefanie
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.11.2020
• EAN: 9780198857013
• ISBN: 978-0-19-885701-3
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Finance, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, Political science & theory, International Economics, Political Economy, Political science and theory, EU (European Union), Economic & financial crises & disasters, Economic and financial crises and disasters, International institutions, EU & European institutions, Finance and the finance industry