The Politics of Extreme Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Politics of Extreme Austerity write by G. Karyotis. This book was released on 2015-03-24. The Politics of Extreme Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe.
The Age of Austerity
The Age of Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Age of Austerity write by Thomas Byrne Edsall. This book was released on 2012-01-10. The Age of Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. One of our most prescient political observers provides a sobering account of how pitched battles over scarce resources will increasingly define American politics in the coming years—and how we might avoid, or at least mitigate, the damage from these ideological and economic battles. In a matter of just three years, a bitter struggle over limited resources has enveloped political discourse at every level in the United States. Fights between haves and have-nots over health care, unemployment benefits, funding for mortgage write-downs, economic stimulus legislation—and, at the local level, over cuts in police protection, garbage collection, and in the number of teachers—have dominated the debate. Elected officials are being forced to make zero-sum choices—or worse, choices with no winners. Resource competition between Democrats and Republicans has left each side determined to protect what it has at the expense of the other. The major issues of the next few years—long-term deficit reduction; entitlement reform, notably of Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid; major cuts in defense spending; and difficulty in financing a continuation of American international involvement—suggest that your-gain-is-my-loss politics will inevitably intensify.
The Political Ecology of Austerity
The Political Ecology of Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Political Ecology of Austerity write by Rita Calvário. This book was released on 2021-11-10. The Political Ecology of Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Political Ecology of Austerity explores the environmental dimension of austerity that has thus far escaped academic, policy, and media attention. Offering a better comprehension of the full socio-environmental impact of austerity measures, the book highlights the importance of considering environmental issues when designing responses to economic crisis in the future. Mobilising detailed case studies from across the world, the volume documents the ways in which austerity impacts global and local ecologies, shapes environmental conflicts and gives rise to new forms and practices of social moblisation and resistance. Bringing together theoretical debates and rigorous case studies, the book proposes ‘the political ecology of austerity’ as an appropriate method of analysis that can inform our understanding of the shift in environmental protection policies and the intensification of growth practices (green or otherwise) that followed the 2008 global economic crisis. The Political Ecology of Austerity discloses austerity to be a globalised set of tools not only for budgetary discipline, but also for socio-environmental discipline that justifies the continuation of capital accumulation at the expense of further global environmental degradation. This book will be of great interest to students and scholars of social and political sciences, environmental studies, urban studies, and political ecology.
Politics in the Age of Austerity
Politics in the Age of Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Politics in the Age of Austerity write by Wolfgang Streeck. This book was released on 2013-05-09. Politics in the Age of Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Living Under Austerity
Living Under Austerity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Living Under Austerity write by Evdoxios Doxiadis. This book was released on 2018-07-20. Living Under Austerity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since its sovereign debt crisis in 2009, Greece has been living under austerity, with no apparent end in sight. This volume explores the effects of policies pursued by the Greek state since then (under the direction of the Troika), and how Greek society has responded. In addition to charting the actual effects of the Greek crisis on politics, health care, education, media, and other areas, the book both examines and challenges the “crisis” era as the context for changing attitudes and developments within Greek society.
