The Politics Of The Euro Zone

Author : Krisztina Arató,Boglarka Koller,Anita Pelle
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429537004

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The Political Economy of the Eurozone in Central and Eastern Europe by Krisztina Arató,Boglarka Koller,Anita Pelle Pdf

The idea for this volume came from the enigma that some Central and Eastern European (CEE) European Union (EU) member states have been keen to join the Eurozone while others have shown persistent reluctance. Moreover, the attitudes towards joining have seemingly not correlated with either the level of economic development or the time spent as part of the EU, nor with any other rational reason such as the level of integration into the EU real economy, or the level of trust in the EU on the part of the public. Therefore, at first sight, the answer to the question ‘why in, why out?’ remains rather unclear. The attractiveness of the currency union has nevertheless not disappeared for the CEE countries. Despite the Eurozone crisis of 2010–13, it was during that time that the Baltic states introduced the euro. Then, after a few years of inactivity, Croatia and Bulgaria successfully applied for membership of the exchange rate mechanism in July 2020, amid the economic crisis caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. At the same time, the three Visegrad countries still using their national currencies – Poland, Czechia and Hungary – no longer have a target date to join the monetary union. This volume aims to discuss these issues from horizontal aspects and through country studies, with contributions from expert authors from, or closely related to, the CEE region.

Author : Mai'a K. Davis Cross
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107147836

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The Politics of Crisis in Europe by Mai'a K. Davis Cross Pdf

An analysis of the repeated existential crises affecting the resilience of the European Union in the twenty-first century.

Author : Kenneth Dyson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000-09-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191529177

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The Politics of the Euro-Zone by Kenneth Dyson Pdf

The Euro-Zone represents the single most important step in European Integration since 1957 and one of the boldest economic, monetary, and political projects in modern history. In this first major study, the author examines the major political questions raised by the birth of the Euro-Zone on January 1 1999 and argues for a more politically informed analysis and assessment of its nature, operation, and prospects. How does the Euro-Zone operate? What does it mean for European States and for the political strategies of governments? How is its operation to be explained? What are its prospects for stability? What kinds of policies are needed to strengthen its capacity to withstand crisis? The book stresses the ECB-centric nature of the Euro-Zone and its implications both for policy and polices in Europe and for theories of integration. The ECB emerges as a powerful 'policy pusher' and 'ideational leader', with an authority and power exceeding that of the European Commission in the integration process. Dyson examines the elated problems of social justice, democratic consent, and identity. He also argues that the Euro-Zone represents a process of transition to the EU as a 'stabilization Staten An innovative aspect of the book is its application of a strength-strain model for the purpose of analyzing and assessing the stability of the Euro-Zone. It concludes that the stability of the Euro-Zone will be strongly conditioned by three factors: how Kantian rather than Hobbesian or Lockeian its political culture proves to be, with a key reproducibility failing here on the quality of political leadership; its possession of policy interments to tackle liquidity as well as debt traps; and the speed and efficiency of mechanisms of 'bench marking, policy transfer, and 'lesson-drawing'.

Author : Herman Lelieveldt,Sebastiaan Princen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2023-04-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781009318327

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The Politics of the European Union by Herman Lelieveldt,Sebastiaan Princen Pdf

The European Union is a key player in determining policies and politics in Europe, and yet understanding how it works remains a challenge. The Politics of the European Union introduces students to its functioning by showing the similarities and differences between the EU and national political systems. Fully revised and updated in its third edition, this introductory textbook uses the tools of comparative politics to explore the history, theories, institutions, key actors, politics and policy-making of the EU. This comparative approach enables students to apply their knowledge of domestic politics and broader debates in political science to better understand the EU. Numerous real-world examples guide students through the textbook, and chapter briefings, fact files and controversy boxes highlight the important and controversial issues in EU politics. A companion website features free 'Navigating the EU' exercises to guide students in their analysis of EU policy-making.

Author : Kathleen R. McNamara
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-05-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191025525

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The Politics of Everyday Europe by Kathleen R. McNamara Pdf

How do political authorities build support for themselves and their rule? Doing so is key to accruing power, but it can be a complicated affair. The European Union, as a novel political entity, faces a particularly difficult set of challenges. The Politics of Everyday Europe argues that the legitimation of EU authority rests in part on a transformation in the symbols and practices of everyday life in Europe. The Single Market and the Euro, the legal category of European Citizen and policies promoting the free movement of people, EU public architecture, arts and popular entertainment, and EU diplomacy and foreign policy all generate symbols and practices that change peoples' day-to-day experiences naturalizing European governance.The modern nation-state has long used similar strategies of nationalism and 'imagined communities' to legitimize its political power. But the EU's cultural infrastructure is unique, as it navigates European national identities with a particularly banality, trying to make the EU seem complementary to, not in competition with, the nation-states. While this cultural legitimation has successfully underpinned the EU's surprising political development, Europe today is more often met with indifference by its citizens rather than affection. As economic and political crises have stretched European social solidarity to the breaking point, this book offers a clear theoretical framework for understanding how everyday culture matters fundamentally in the political life of the EU, and how the construction of meaning can be a potent power resource-albeit one open to contestation and subversion by the very citizens it calls into being.

Author : Douglas Webber
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 427 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781350311503

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European Disintegration? by Douglas Webber Pdf

This new book provides a comprehensive analysis of Europe on the brink of political disintegration. Observers of the European Union (EU) could be forgiven for thinking that it is in a state of permanent crisis. The Union has been beset with high levels of Eurozone debt, Russian intervention and armed conflict in Ukraine, refugees fleeing conflict zones in North Africa and the Middle East, and the decision of Britain to leave the European Union. This text offers a concise and readable assessment of the dynamics, character and consequences of these four crises and the increasingly real possibility of European disintegration. High levels of socio-economic interdependence and institutionalization have failed to result in an ever closer union, and yet the proposed theories of disintegration also fall short. Webber instead shows that it is only by looking at the role of the EU's dominant member, Germany, in each crisis that the potential for an increasingly fragmented Europe becomes clear. Until now, Germany has been the EU's stabilizing force but this is no longer guaranteed. The fate of the integration process will depend on whether other, more inclusive forms of stabilizing leadership may emerge to fill the vacuum created by Berlin's incapacity. This text is the ideal companion for upper undergraduate and postgraduate students of the European Union, as part of degrees in politics, international relations or European studies, or for anyone interested in the crises of the European Union.

Author : Leonardo Morlino,Cecilia Emma Sottilotta
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030244712

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The Politics of the Eurozone Crisis in Southern Europe by Leonardo Morlino,Cecilia Emma Sottilotta Pdf

This book provides an in-depth account of the politics of the Eurozone crisis in Italy, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and Malta, mapping the positions expressed by the governments of Southern EU countries during the Eurozone crisis negotiations, including Greece’s bailout deal, the so-called “Six Pack” and the “Fiscal Compact” and exploring the process of domestic preference formation. The book relies on original data resulting from fieldwork conducted in the context of the EU Commission- funded Horizon 2020 project “The Choice for Europe since Maastricht”.

Author : François Foret,Jana Vargovčíková
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000398663

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Value Politics in the European Union by François Foret,Jana Vargovčíková Pdf

This book explores what drives value politics and the way in which it redraws political conflict at EU level. Based on case studies and analyses of statistical data, the book shows what the uses and roles of values have been at EU level over the past decades in both market-related policies and in identity, cultural and morality policies. It challenges the common assumption that the latter is more driven by value conflicts. The research shows the intrinsic similarities between all policy areas regarding the agency and limits of values as drivers of change or continuity. It argues that European values are a broad and flexible symbolic repertoire instrumentalised to serve as a resource for mobilization, legitimation/delegitimation, the conquest and conservation of power. This book will be of key interest to both scholars and students in European studies/politics, comparative politics, public policy, political theory, sociology and cultural studies, as well as appealing to professionals of European affairs within and around the EU institutions.

Author : Ivano Cardinale,D'Maris Coffman,Roberto Scazzieri
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 589 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781107124011

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The Political Economy of the Eurozone by Ivano Cardinale,D'Maris Coffman,Roberto Scazzieri Pdf

This book proposes a new way of thinking about the Eurozone, exploring the overlap between its economic and political interdependencies.

Author : Kenneth Dyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0199241651

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The Politics of the Euro-zone by Kenneth Dyson Pdf

The author examines the main political questions raised by the birth of the Euro-zone on 1 January 1999, and argues for a more informed analysis and assessment of its nature, operation and prospects. He stresses the central role of the European Central Bank in the Euro-zone and explains the extent of the ECB's authority and power.

Author : Robert Godby,Stephanie Anderson
Publisher : Verlag Barbara Budrich
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-18
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783847404316

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Greek Tragedy, European Odyssey: The Politics and Economics of the Eurozone Crisis by Robert Godby,Stephanie Anderson Pdf

Debate among politicians and academics alike vacillates as to whether the euro is the crowning achievement of a half-century of European integration efforts, or now constitutes a force that threatens to drive European Union member states apart. This book introduces both the political and economic forces at play in the eurozone crisis that have shaped this debate and changed the face of European integration.

Author : Kenneth H.F. Dyson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:149892672

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The Politics of the Euro-zone by Kenneth H.F. Dyson Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 200?
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1045882059

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Palgrave Studies in European Union Politics by Anonim Pdf

Author : Olaf Cramme,Sara B. Hobolt
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191036576

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Democratic Politics in a European Union Under Stress by Olaf Cramme,Sara B. Hobolt Pdf

This book offers a comprehensive political analysis of the Euro crisis that erupted in Greece in 2010 and subsequently threatened the very survival of the Euro area. It has left a profound mark on democratic politics all over Europe, changing public attitudes and voting preferences, institutional and societal norms, and deeply anchored political traditions. The contributors to this volume reveal the extent to which policymakers are torn between the pressures emanating from financial markets and the demands put forward by their own constituents; how they struggle to reconcile national preferences with wider European interests; and how a polarized and politicized Union seeks to maintain some degree of cohesion. The emerging picture is that of a European Union under serious stress, transformed by new governance structures and a shifting balance of power. In response, the authors evaluate the prospects of a more legitimate and democratic Europe. They provide a rich and pluralist set of new analyses and proposals, aimed at understanding and navigating the myriad tensions which surround the EU in the aftermath of the crisis. If the European project is to regain the trust of its citizens, such considerations must take a central place in public debate.

Author : James A. Caporaso,Martin Rhodes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780198755739

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The Political and Economic Dynamics of the Eurozone Crisis by James A. Caporaso,Martin Rhodes Pdf

The book is distinguished from existing research by its avoidance (and rejection) of the too-often simplistic analysis that has characterized political, media and regrettably some academic coverage, and by its attempt to escape from the tyranny of day-to-day events and short-term developments. Each of the contributors identifies an important question and undertakes a careful empirical, theoretically-informed analysis that produces novel perspectives. Together they seek to balance many of the existing accounts that have rushed to sometimes unwarranted conclusions, concerning, for example, the locus of institutional power in European crisis-management; the power and centrality of particular member states, notably Germany which has been attributed with 'hegemonic' status; the supposed entrapment of EU policy makers by an 'austerity ideology'; and the deep flaws that apparently afflict the solutions to the crisis put painstakingly in place, such as Banking Union.