The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity

Front Cover -- The Changing Politics And Policy Of Austerity -- Copyright Information -- Table Of Contents -- List Of Figures And Tables -- Notes On Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- End Of The Post- War Golden Age -- The Multiple Crisis: The 21st Century's Accumulating Fault Lines -- The 'new Times' Of Covid- 19 -- References -- Part I Austerity And The Promotion Of The Private -- 1 Beyond Austerity: Pro-public Strategies Versus Public-private Partnership Scandals -- Austerity And Public Infrastructure -- Ppp Scandals -- Market Monopolization Corruption, Bankruptcy And Ineptitude -- Equity Sales And Offshoring -- Beyond Austerity -- Ppp-led Stimulus? -- Pro-public Strategies -- Pandemic-driven Pandemonium -- Global Turbulence -- Market Winnowing -- Nationalization -- Conclusion -- References -- 2 Institutionalizing Austerity Accounting In Europe: The Implementation Of European Public Sector Accounting Standards As Crisis Response -- Accounting Standardization In An Interconnected World -- European Budgetary Surveillance In The Name Of Financial Markets -- Epsas As A Tool For Budgetary Governance -- Agents Of Austerity Accounting Conclusion -- References -- Part Ii Coping And Casualties: Labour And The Social -- 3 A Fragile Triangle: Collective Bargaining Systems, Trade Unions And The State In The Eu -- An Attack On The Collective Bargaining Systems ... -- ... With Differing Effects -- Collective Bargaining: Dependent On The Government Or Should The State Be Forced Into Assuming Responsibility? -- Socio-political Autonomy -- Planting A Social Foreign Body In The Economic Governance Of The Eu -- References 4 Privatizing The Sacrifice: Individualized Funding, Austerity And Precarity In The Voluntary Sector In Australia And Scotland -- Contexts -- Austerity -- The National Disability Insurance Scheme -- Personalization Of Self-directed Care In Scotland -- The Studies -- Findings -- Comparing Ndis And Sds -- Conclusion -- References -- 5 Austerity And The Social Innovation Agenda -- The Social Innovation Agenda -- Benchmarking -- Governance -- Devolution -- Responsibilization -- Conclusion -- References -- Part Iii Beyond Coping: Protest, Pathologies And The Development Of Real Alternatives 6 Politics As An Alternative To Constitutionalization -- Constitutionalization As An Alternative To Politics -- Integration Through Crisis -- The European Union's Pandemic Response -- Reversal Of Neoliberal Constitutionalism? Politics As An Alternative To Constitutionalization -- References -- 7 There Could Be Alternatives! German Economic Advisory Councils And The Institutional Reproduction Of Austerity Economics -- Independent Advisory Bodies In The Field Of German Economic And Social Policy -- German Advisory Bodies In Economic And Social Policy Areas Edited By Stephen Mcbride, Bryan Evans And Dieter Plehwe. The German Council Of Economic Experts (gcee). Electronic Reproduction. Baltimore, Md Available Via World Wide Web.