The politics of bad options

Titel: The politics of bad options : why the Eurozone's problems have been so hard to resolve / Stefanie Walter, Ari Ray, and Nils Redeker
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Ausgabe: First edition
Veröffentlicht: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2020
Umfang: 1 Online-Ressource (320 pages) : Illustrations (black and white).
Format: E-Book
Sprache: Englisch
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ISBN: 9780191890123 ; 9780198857013
Bemerkung: This edition also issued in print: 2020
Includes bibliographical references and index
Zusammenfassung: Why was the Eurozone crisis so difficult to resolve? Why was it resolved in a manner in which some countries bore a much larger share of the pain than other countries? Why did no country leave the Eurozone rather than implement unprecedented austerity? Who supported and opposed the different policy options in the crisis domestically, and how did the distributive struggles among these groups shape crisis politics? Building on macro-level statistical data, original survey data from interest groups, and qualitative comparative case studies, this book argues and shows that the answers to these questions revolve around distributive struggles about how the costs of the Eurozone crisis should be divided among countries, and within countries, among different socioeconomic groups.