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Karremans investigates the concern that financial considerations are more important than people's demands through the comparative study of five countries - Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain - and explores how governments maintain a balance between institutional responsibility and democratic responsiveness.
List of contents
- Preface and acknowledgements
- 1: How can governments legitimise their budgets?
- 2: The coding of annual budget plans
- 3: Is globalization reducing responsiveness?
- 4: Responsiveness and responsibility under European economic governance
- 5: Policy justifications under technocratic and populist cabinets
- 6: National variations of responsiveness
- 7: Fiscal responsibility between the Fiscal Compact and the Recovery Fund
- 8: Explaining the balance between responsiveness and responsibility in the eurozone
- Bibliography
About the author
Johannes Karremans is Professor in Political Science at the European School of Political and Social Sciences of the Catholic University of Lille. He holds both the Austrian venia docendi and the Italian national scientific habilitation. Prior to his current appointment, Professor Karremans held several post-doctoral positions at the European University Institute, the University of Salzburg, and the University of Lisbon. Between 2019 and 2021, he was holder of the prestigious Lise Meitner grant from the Austrian Science Fund. His research has appeared in several leading scholarly journals, including West European Politics, Party Politics, the Journal of European Public Policy and the Journal of Common Market Studies.
Summary
Karremans investigates the concern that financial considerations are more important than people's demands through the comparative study of five countries - Austria, France, Germany, Italy, and Spain - and explores how governments maintain a balance between institutional responsibility and democratic responsiveness.
Additional text
To date, no scholarly work had systematically analysed governments' justifications for the policies contained in their annual budgets. This book is a novel and important contribution to the enduring debate about the relationship between (national-level) democracy and (international-level) economic integration, and provides one of the most advanced and detailed measurements of the balance between democratic responsiveness and institutional responsibility. Jan Karremans relies on a rigorous comparative research design and mixed methods to speak with political scientists and political economists, economic sociologists and economists and the broader scholarship in European Union Studies.
