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Ben Clift Publishes Journal Special Issue on Austerity
has just co-edited a special issue of on 'The Politics of Austerity' bringing together leading scholars from the Sciences Po, Paris, Kings College London, Queen Mary, University of London and Cardiff University.
The collected articles, two co-authored by Ben, explore the specific dynamics and particularities of French austerity politics under Hollande within a broader context of changes since the 1980s to democratic institutions and electoral practices, the politics of European integration and the conditions of complex economic interdependence.
The main questions addressed are:
- How did the austerity policy approach to the Eurozone’s economic problems come to prevail?
- To what extent has democratic legitimacy for this approach been secured?
- How will the requirements to curtail public spending be enacted at local and central government level?