Politics in the Age of Austerity 9780745670089, 9789264119536, 0745670083, 9780745678672, 074567867X

Introduction : politics in the age of austerity / Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck -- Public finance and the decline o

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Table of contents :
Introduction : politics in the age of austerity / Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang Streeck --
Public finance and the decline of state capacity in democratic capitalism / Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens --
Tax competition and fiscal democracy / Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz --
Governing as an engineering problem : the political economic of Swedish success / Sven Steinmo --
Monetary union, fiscal crisis and the disabling of democratic accountability / Fritz W. Scharpf --
Smaghi versus the parties : representative government and institutional constraints / Peter Mair --
Liberalization, inequality and democracy's discontent / Armin Schäfer --
Participatory inequality in the austerity state : a supply-side approach / Claus Offe --
From markets versus states to corporations versus civil society? / Colin Crouch --
The normalization of the right in post-security Europe / Mabel Berezin --
The crisis in context : democratic capitalism and its contradictions / Wolfgang Streeck.

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