European Economy
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 364
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Clientelism and Economic Policy
Author: Aris Trantidis
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-04-28
Total Pages: 261
ISBN-13: 1317326598
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWith its deep economic crisis and dramatic political developments Greece has puzzled Europe and the world. What explains its long-standing problems and its incapacity to reform its economy? Using an analytic narrative and a comparative approach, the book studies the pattern of economic reforms in Greece between 1985 and 2015. It finds that clientelism - the allocation of selective benefits by political actors (patrons) to their supporters (clients) - created a strong policy bias that prevented the country from implementing deep-cutting reforms. The book shows that the clientelist system differs from the general image of interest-group politics and that the typical view of clientelism, as individual exchange between patrons and clients, has not fully captured the wide range and implications of this phenomenon. From this, the author develops a theory on clientelism and policy-making, addressing key questions on the politics of economic reform, government autonomy and party politics. The book is an essential addition to the literatures on clientelism, public choice theory, and comparative political economy. It will be of key interest to scholars and students of European Union politics, economic policy and party politics.
Author: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2003-11-04
Total Pages: 208
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Adjusting to EMU
Author: B. Ardy
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-11-01
Total Pages: 363
ISBN-13: 0230554741
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides an original and wide-ranging analysis of the impact of Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) on economic governance in the EU and in several key Member States within and outside the Euro area. Its emphasis is on adaptation: how EMU encourages change in national and EU institutions and in national economic regimes. It brings together economic, political science and legal perspectives to explain how national economies adapted, the dynamics of policy-making and the complex web of laws, processes and actors in the EMU.
The Welfare State Reader
Author: Christopher Pierson
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2006-11-28
Total Pages: 505
ISBN-13: 0745635563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIncludes 20 selections, reflecting the thinking and research in welfare state studies, these readings are organized around a series of debates - on welfare regimes, globalization, Europeanization, demographic change and political challenges.
Integrating UK and European Social Policy
Author: Robert Geyer
Publisher: Radcliffe Publishing
Published: 2005
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 9781857757644
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDoes the European Union really matter to British policy? For some it is a leading light, for others an irrelevancy. Given the uneven and evolving nature of EU policy, how can we evaluate its overall impact? This book is the first to combine a clear and detailed introduction to the new science of complexity and its application to social policy, Europeanisation, globalisation and the EU-UK relationship. It includes a detailed review of four key policy areas: employment, labour, gender and monetary relations. "Integrating UK and European Social Policy" provides groundbreaking reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students of politics, history, international relations, economics, social policy and applied social science. It is also useful for academics with an interest in European social policy, and policy makers and shapers, including government and non-government organisations.
Economic Policy for a Social Europe
Author: Jörg Huffschmid
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2005-09-08
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 0230523390
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book poses a critique of neoliberal economic polices in the EU and proposals for alternatives. The book argues that the economic weakness of the EU is the result of the very restrictive economic policy of the Union and most member states. The book advances from a comprehensive critique of macroeconomic, social and structural policies towards a concrete concept for a democratic European social model based on the objectives of full employment, welfare, social equity and ecological sustainability.
Greece
Author: Theodore Pelagidis
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2014-06-28
Total Pages: 191
ISBN-13: 0815725760
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTwo Greek economic analysts explain the Greek financial crisis—from beginning to end. The first section of Greece: From Exit to Recovery? explores the lead up to to Greece's adoption of the euro. Authors Theodore Pelagidis and Michael Mitsopoulos believe that the ensuing challenges were foreseeable. In fact, the authors posit that it was Greece's difficultly in dealing with those challenges that sparked the euro crisis. Section II analyzes discrete sectors of the economy, paying special attention to labor and finance—and the mistakes creditors made in focusing on reducing Greek incomes—rather than increasing competitiveness on non-labor costs. Section III investigates why Greek companies spend relatively little on research and development.? The authors' analysis indicates that policy decisions largely determine R&D performance in the private sector, and they advance a number of specific policy proposals to improve the situation.
OECD Economic Surveys: Euro Area 2002
Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2002-07-31
Total Pages: 186
ISBN-13: 9264194118
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 2002 edition of OECD's periodic review of the Euro Area economy examines recent economic developments, policies and prospects and includes special features on the fiscal policy framework, monetary management, financial market integration, and the EU's policy processes.
Employment Policy and the Regulation of Part-time Work in the European Union
Author: Silvana Sciarra
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004-07-01
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 1139452444
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book originates from the research project 'New discourses in labour law' held at the European University Institute. A detailed analysis of part-time work regulation is presented for seven European countries, in order to ascertain how internal domestic choices of the legislatures have merged into the 'Open method of co-ordination'. The impact of European employment policies is considered in parallel with the implementation of the Directive on part-time work, thus providing a complete overview of both soft and hard law mechanisms available to national policy-makers. In this 2004 work, the interaction between law and policy emerges as a dynamic and constantly changing process of exchange between national and supranational actors, through the use of concrete examples of lawmaking. Labour law is put forward as being central in the current evolution of European law, and this centrality is presented as a confirmation of innovation and continuity in regulatory techniques.
