Stephen McBride & Bryan Evans 
The Changing Politics and Policy of Austerity [EPUB ebook] 

Introduction: The changing politics and policy of austerity – Bryan Evans, Stephen Mc Bride and Dieter Plehwe

Part 1: Austerity and the promotion of the private

1. Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnerships scandals – Heather Whiteside

2. Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: The implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) as crisis response – Sebastian Botzem

Part 2: Coping and casualties: Labour and the social

3. A fragile triangle: Collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU – Steffen Lehndorff

4. Privatizing the sacrifice: Individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland – Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, Philip James and Chandrima Roy

5. Austerity and the social innovation agenda – Meghan Joy, John Shields, Sharon Broughton and Siu Mee Cheng

Part 3: Beyond coping: Protest, pathologies and the development of real alternatives

6. Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization – Stephen Mc Bride and Joy Schnittker

7. There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics – Dieter Plehwe and Moritz Neujeffski

8. Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain – Bryan Evans, Stephen Mc Bride and James Watson

9. Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives – Ingo Schmidt

10. Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right – Hans-Jürgen Bieling

11. Reducing the burden: International struggles against illegitimate debt – Christoph Sorg

12. The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism – Jim Stanford

13. Austerity after COVID-19: Towards inclusive economic governance in Europe – Hans-Jürgen Urban and Sebastian Bödeker

14 Conclusion – Stephen Mc Bride, Dieter Plehwe and Bryan Evans

Dieter Plehwe is Research Fellow in the Center for Civil Society Research, WZB, Berlin Social Science Center and Privatdozent (Private Lecturer) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kassel, Germany.