The Politics of Extreme Austerity

Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors 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 theGreek 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 Rüdig 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 Index