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  • Italy and Germany, Incompatible Varieties of Europe?

    Edited by Ton Notermans, Simona Piattoni ...
    Can Italy and Germany thrive within the confines of the common currency, or do they display two fundamentally incompatible models? This book examines this question by means of detailed comparisons in the fields of labour market policies, welfare provisions and financial and economic management, since the onset of the financial crisis and through the euro and COVID-19 crises.The rapid succession of ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Italy in the European Union

    Redefining National Interest in a Compound Polity

    Edited by Sergio Fabbrini, Simona Piattoni ...
    Based on an analytical evaluation of both the weaknesses and strengths of the Italian political system, Italy in the European Union is the first book to offer a detailed and comprehensive description of Italy's contribution to European Union policy-making. The contributors to this volume systematically explore the role played by Italian institutional and noninstitutional actors in several decision ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Shaping EU Policy from Below

    EU Democracy and the Committee of the Regions

    by Simona Piattoni, Justus Schönlau ...
    Series series New Horizons in European Politics series
    This ground breaking book looks at the way in which the Committee of Regions (CoR) can influence EU policy making from below, despite its relatively weak position in the decision-making process. In essence, the authors argue that the CoR plays a significant role in the EU's political process, going well beyond its formally limited advisory function.By applying theoretical considerations about the ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Growing Public: Volume 1, The Story

    Social Spending and Economic Growth since the Eighteenth Century

    by Peter H. Lindert ...
    Growing Public examines the question of whether social policies that redistribute income impose constraints on economic growth. Taxes and transfers have been debated for centuries, but only now can we get a clear view of the whole evolution of social spending. What kept prospering nations from using taxes for social programs until the end of the nineteenth century? Why did taxes and spending then ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Politics in the New Hard Times

    The Great Recession in Comparative Perspective

    Edited by Miles Kahler, David A. Lake ...
    Series series Cornell Studies in Political Economy
    The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on ... Read more

    $27.99 USD

  • Smart Fiscal Consolidation

    A Strategy for Achieving Sustainable Public Finances and Growth

    by Galina Kolev, Jürgen Matthes ...
    Series series Wilfried Martens Centre for European Studies Research Papers
    Due to high government debt levels and the dangers of self-defeating austerity in Europe, smart fiscal consolidation measures are needed that foster economic growth. A thorough review of the relevant literature provides many useful insights. To regain credibility, a clearly communicated broad reform program (including structural reforms) is required. Targeting mainly public expenditures, rather ... Read more

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  • Making Social Spending Work

    by Peter H. Lindert ...
    How does social spending relate to economic growth and which countries have got this right and wrong? Peter Lindert examines the experience of countries across the globe to reveal what has worked, what needs changing, and who the winners and losers are under different systems. He traces the development of public education, health care, pensions, and welfare provision, and addresses key questions ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • Forging an Integrated Europe

    Edited by Jeffry A. Frieden, Barry Eichengreen ...
    Series series Michigan Studies In International Political Economy
    As European integration has deepened and become more invasive, the tension between the authority of the European Union and the autonomy of member states has increased, while dissatisfaction with the political institutions of the European Union has increased dramatically. How fast and how far European integration will proceed are critical issues for scholars and policymakers in Europe and the ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Global Imperialism and the Great Crisis

    The Uncertain Future of Capitalism

    by Ernesto Screpanti ...
    In this provocative study, economist Ernesto Screpanti argues that imperialism—far from disappearing or mutating into a benign “globalization”—has in fact entered a new phase, which he terms “global imperialism.” This is a phase defined by multinational firms cut loose from the nation-state framework and free to chase profits over the entire surface of the globe. No longer dependent on nation ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Creation and Destruction of Value

    The Globalization Cycle

    by Harold James ...
    Harold James examines the vulnerability and fragility of processes of globalization, both historically and in the present. This book applies lessons from past breakdowns of globalization—above all in the Great Depression—to show how financial crises provoke backlashes against global integration: against the mobility of capital or goods, but also against flows of migration. By a parallel ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Fiscal Governance in Europe

    by Mark Hallerberg, Rolf Rainer Strauch, Jürgen von Hagen ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    This book presents a theoretical framework to discuss how governments coordinate budgeting decisions. There are two modes of fiscal governance conducive to greater fiscal discipline, a mode of delegation and a mode of contracts. These modes contrast with a fiefdom form of governance, in which the decision-making process is decentralized. An important insight is that the effectiveness of a given ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration

    Edited by Harald Badinger, Volker Nitsch ...
    Series series Routledge International Handbooks
    Routledge Handbook of the Economics of European Integration provides readers with a brief but comprehensive overview of topics related to the process of European integration in the post-World War II period. Its short chapters reflect the most up-to-date and concise research, written by a collective of experts on their own subjects.The aim of this book is twofold. Firstly, the text illustrates the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD