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The politics of extreme austerity : Greece in the Eurozone Crisis / edited by Georgios Karyotis and Roman Gerodimos.

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In late 2009, Greece found itself in the global spotlight as the country struggled to remain solvent and in the Eurozone. The Greek debt crisis became the subject of world summits, international news headlines and intense market activity. In the four years that followed, the Greek government impleme...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Springer)
Other Authors: Karyotis, Georgios, 1977- (Editor), Gerodimos, Roman (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire : Palgrave Macmillan, [2015]
Series:New perspectives on South-East Europe.
Subjects:
Financial crises > Greece.
Financial crises > European Union countries.
Eurozone.
Greece > Economic conditions > 21st century.
European Union countries > Economic conditions > 21st century.
Economic history.
Financial crises.
European Union countries.
Greece.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Dissecting the Greek Debt Crisis; Georgios Karyotis and Roman Gerodimos
  • PART I: FRAMING CONTESTS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT
  • 1. The Contradictions and Battlegrounds of Crisis Management; Andrew Hindmoor and Allan McConnell
  • 2. European Discourses on Managing the Greek Crisis: Denial, Distancing and the Politics of Blame; Dimitris Papadimitriou and Sotirios Zartaloudis
  • 3. 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly': Stereotypes, Prejudices and Emotions on Greek Media Representation of the EU Financial Crisis; Tereza Capelos and Theofanis Exadaktylos
  • PART II: THE POLICIES OF EXTREME AUSTERITY
  • 4. An Evaluation of the Austerity Strategy in the Eurozone: Was the First Greek Bail-out Programme Bound to Fail?; Sotiria Theodoropoulou and Andrew Watt
  • 5. 'Off-the-Shelf Reforms' and their Blind Spots: Pensions in Post-Memorandum Greece; Platon Tinios
  • 6.A 'Fairweather Welfare State'? Formal and Informal Social Protection and the Greek Crisis; Antigone Lyberaki and Platon Tinios
  • PART III: THE POLITICS OF EXTREME AUSTERITY
  • 7. Protest Participation, Electoral Choices and Public Attitudes towards Austerity in Greece; Georgios Karyotis and Wolfgang Rdig
  • 8. Anger Management and the Politics of Crime in the Greek Crisis; Sappho Xenakis and Leonidas Cheliotis
  • 9. Re-organising Everyday Greek Social Reality: Subjective Experiences of the Greek Crisis; Athanasia Chalari
  • PART IV: THE CRISIS BEYOND GREECE
  • 10. Structure, Agents and Discourse in Managing Economic Crises: Comparing Greece and Turkey; Dimitris Tsarouhas
  • 11. The Politics of Fiscal Efforts in Ireland and Spain: Market Credibility versus Political Legitimacy; Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda and Niamh Hardiman
  • 12. Credibility Dilemmas during Economic Crises: Greece in the Argentine Mirror; sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda
  • 13. Reflections on the Greek and Eurozone Crisis: A View from the Inside; George Papandreou
  • CONCLUSION
  • 14. Austerity Politics and Crisis Governance: Lessons from Greece; Roman Gerodimos and Georgios Karyotis
  • Bibliography
  • Appendix: A Timeline of the Greek and Eurozone Crises.

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