Conditionality, Democracy and Institutional Weakness: the Euro‐crisis Trilemma

Featherstone, Kevin

doi:10.1111/jcms.12411

Cited by 39 publications

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“…With the May 2010 bailout package and its successors, social policy—like most public policy—was placed under strict international supervision (Featherstone, 2016). In the context of austerity, the welfare state became subject to fiscal consolidation, just like any other policy area.…”

Section: Falling Supply Of Social Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s

Matsaganis

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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This paper deals with the question of how the social safety net in Greece responded to, and was transformed by, the social emergency of the 2010s. The outbreak of the Eurozone crisis caught Greek welfare woefully unprepared for what was to come. Thereafter, as the recession fuelled the “demand” for social protection, the austerity reduced its “supply.” Nevertheless, this is not a straightforward case of austerity predictably causing welfare retrenchment or dismantling. Stringent budgets and policy inertia did result in reduced provision and diminished capacity to protect. Yet significant progress towards a less parochial and more effective social safety net also took place. The paper is an attempt to bring out the complexity and contradictions of recent developments. It concludes that the system of social protection that has emerged from the crisis is undoubtedly leaner, less robust in core policy areas such as pensions and health, but also more effective in protecting against extreme poverty than ever before.

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Section: Falling Supply Of Social Protectionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s

Matsaganis

2020

Soc Policy Adm

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“…Yet, at the same time, they are also a critical political and geographic container which concentrates policy‐making in relatively closed spaces and around few people, reducing the chances of wildly different political and ideological views. From this process have come policies which Featherstone (, p. 51) has argued are marked by ‘over‐determinacy’. For instance, the target of Greece shedding 150,000 public servant posts between 2011 and 15 ‘was not a figure developed on the basis of an assessment of staffing or skills needed; it was purely a calculation derived from the budget savings required of Greece’.…”

Section: The Eu Crisis As a Complex Adaptive Systemmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There is clearly recognition that the crisis through which the organization is passing is the result of multiple factors and impacts the EU in various ways and spheres (Featherstone, 2016;Kreuder-Sonnen, 2016). Equally, the crisis has been interpreted from a variety of theoretical perspectives (Niemann and Ioannou, 2015;Schimmelfennig, 2015;Verdun, 2015).…”

Section: From Linear To Complex: Seeing the Eu Crisis As A Complementioning

confidence: 99%

The Crisis of the European Union as a Complex Adaptive System

Lehmann

2018

J of Common Market Studies

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The present article argues that the current crisis of the European Union (EU) is much deeper and more profound than many EU officials and analysts care to admit. Taking the so‐called sovereign debt crisis and the refugee crisis as illustrative case studies it is argued that the crisis needs to be reframed as a Complex Adaptive System which is self‐organizing in a deeply incoherent manner and which current EU policies are not only not addressing but exacerbating. As an alternative, the article suggests using Adaptive Action as a framework to identify the conditions which sustain the current dysfunctionality of the European Union and makes concrete suggestions on how these conditions can be altered. Areas of further research are also identified.

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“…While many Euro crisis solutions, for example, have major political consequences for member states, the dominant views among decision-makers are that they should not be politicized (Leino and Salminen 2013). Looking specifically at the Greek case, Featherstone (2016) points to the tension between externally imposed conditionality and national democratic choice, with the added difficulty that the domestic institutions tasked with implementing reforms lack the capacity and experience to do so (cf. Garcia-Arias et al 2013).…”

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The politics of (de-)politicization and venue choice: A scoping review and research agenda on EU financial regulation and economic governance

Veer

Haverland

2018

Journal of European Public Policy

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Scholarly interest in EU financial regulation and economic governance has increased sharply over the last decade, but the literature on their politics remains fragmented. We present a scoping literature review which systematically locates and aggregates academic articles on their politics in ISIranked journals between 1999 and 2016. We identify lacunas in this literature by mapping its strands onto the EU political system. We then present a system-level research agenda that focuses on the cycles of depoliticization and politicization that strongly characterize the politics in these areas. Future research must pay careful attention to the conditions, mechanisms and, especially the venues that (dis)allow the linkage of societal politicization to EU-level politics. This approach is deeply rooted in the specifics of the politics of these policy areas, but also draws on the strengths of research in these areas to increase its relevance for broader debates on the future of the EU itself.

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Conditionality, Democracy and Institutional Weakness: the Euro‐crisis Trilemma

Cited by 39 publications

References 27 publications

Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s

Safety nets in (the) crisis: The case of Greece in the 2010s

The Crisis of the European Union as a Complex Adaptive System

The politics of (de-)politicization and venue choice: A scoping review and research agenda on EU financial regulation and economic governance

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