Here to Stay? Reversals of Structural Reforms in Southern Europe as the Crisis Wanes

Branco, Rui; Cardoso, Daniel; Guillén, Ana M.; Sacchi, Stefano; Balbona, David Luque

doi:10.1080/13608746.2019.1640966

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“…This is confirmed by the articles in this volume, which show that reversals are a common occurrence in the aftermath of the crisis; but that governments are selective in their choices. The contributions of Branco et al (2019), Afonso and Bulfone (2019) and show that reversals are observed across all policy areas, by both the left and the right, and in all countries. For example, Branco et al (2019) count a total of 17 reversals of structural reforms: five in Spain, and six each in Portugal and Italy.…”

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confidence: 89%

“…For the bailed out countries (Portugal, Spain and Greece), we consider the end of the bailout programmes. In Italy, there was a marked decline in pressure after the Mario Draghi 'whatever it takes' speech in July 2012, and that it is why Branco et al (2019) consider this date as the end of conditionality in Italy.…”

Section: Conditionality In Southern Europe: Policy-making In Straitjamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These reversals were generally adopted a few months before an election, and were always partial and conditional to additional revenues so as to be budgetary neutral. The courts also reversed a series of bills when the programme terminatedsuch as some measures on collective bargaining or the calculation of pay for unfair dismissals (Branco et al 2019). After the PP lost its majority in June 2016, the second Rajoy government (2016-2018) had to negotiate with nationalist parties, trading reversals (the re-introduction of budgetary transfer to the regions, for example) in exchange for support for its state budget.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…the freezing of the minimum wage and the cuts in (the lowest) public servants' salaries. Another similarity with Spain is the activism in the post-conditionality period of the Constitutional Court, which reversed two measures permanently decreasing pensions (Branco et al 2019).…”

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“…Instead, most of the contributions herein look at policy reversals. Some articles focus only on structural reforms in Italy, Spain and Portugal (Branco et al 2019;Afonso & Bulfone 2019), whereas another observes all kinds of policies triggered by conditionality in Spain and Portugal. Finally, Perez and Matsaganis (2019) analyse the social effects of reforms of the labour market passed during the crisis in both these countries and Greece.…”

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Beyond Conditionality: Policy Reversals in Southern Europe in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis

Moury

Afonso²

2019

South European Society and Politics

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This article proposes a framework to understand and explain the occurrence of policy reversals. We argue that the occurrence and absence of policy reversals is shaped by the constraints of responsiveness (to voters) and responsibility (vis-à-vis creditors, international institutions and financial markets). We review the literature on reversals and their implications for Southern Europe. We finally summarise the main findings of the contributions in the volume, that address when and why governments prioritise responsiveness or responsibility, as well as the economic consequences of these choices.

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Afonso²

2019

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Solidarity in Hard Times

Branco¹,

Cardoso²

2022

Inscribing Solidarity

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This chapter deals with solidarity towards those made more vulnerable due to less security in employment and degraded social protection during hard times. 1 Stable, long-term employment paying a living wage shrunk over previous decades, as shortterm, unstable, poorly paid jobs spread. Higher insecurity and instability affected standard and temporary employment, the latter rising everywhere. Particularly in segmentation-prone Birmarckian systems, such as the Portuguese, where social security is closely linked with enduring labour market participation, rising precarity in atypical employment (averaging 21 per cent from 2000 to 2018) is often compounded by weak or spotty social protection. The twin fragmentation of work and breakdown of the standard employment relation brought about a 'precarious periphery' and a 'destabilization of the stable' (Castel, 2003; 2007), accompanied by widespread 'privatization of risk' in the labour market and social protection due to increasing social and economic risk shifts from government and employers onto ordinary individuals and their families (Hacker, 2006).These trends did not start with the Great Recession; they have prevailed for some time in advanced industrial economies, but found in crisis policymaking under conditionality an opportunity to evade constraints that hitherto had tamed or 'embedded' them. Looking at the Portuguese case, we study weather and how domestic politics and institutions mattered to counteract the dualisation, precarisation, and liberalising trends in employment relations and social protection during the Great Recession and beyond.1 We thank Julia López López and her leadership on the Project on Solidarity for supporting this research and convening several Seminars on 'Solidarity under the Perspective of Labour Law', concluding with 'Inscribing Solidarity: Labor Law and Beyond', held at Universitat Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona), and all participants for their warm support and pointed and insightful comments. Research was supported also by IPRI-NOVA FCT fund (UIDB/04627/2020).

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Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience

Baldini

Giglioli

2020

Gov. & oppos.

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The majority view within political science is that populism is best understood as a (thin) ideology. We problematize the ideational approach by broadening the scope of analysis, linking populism to the rise of long-term generalized anti-political sentiments, against interpretations that tend to tie the populist wave to conjunctural factors related to recent crises. We argue that the essence of populism lies at the intersection of the ‘material constitution’ of advanced industrial democracies (that is, how macroeconomic governance relates to democratic decision-making) and the feelings of societal alienation that are at the heart of anti-political sentiments. We show the peculiar coexistence of economic turbulence, heralded by the crisis of the cartel party and of the neoliberal economic consensus, and an appeal to a post-democratic ‘virtual politics’ of performed but ineffectual popular sovereignty. The policies of the populist coalition governing Italy in 2018–19 provide a key case to test the relevance of our arguments.

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Here to Stay? Reversals of Structural Reforms in Southern Europe as the Crisis Wanes

Cited by 25 publications

References 30 publications

Beyond Conditionality: Policy Reversals in Southern Europe in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis

Beyond Conditionality: Policy Reversals in Southern Europe in the Aftermath of the Eurozone Crisis

Solidarity in Hard Times

Bread or Circuses? Repoliticization in the Italian Populist Government Experience

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