Europeanisation of Public Policy in Southern Europe

Comparative Political Economy from the 2000s to the Crisis

Canan Balkir, H. Tolga Bolukbasi, Ebru Ertugal

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9780415742931
• eBook ISBN: 9781317802907
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Politics
• Index: Politics & International Relations

Large or small, old EU member or new, and even EU member state or not – political economies across Southern Europe have been increasingly but distinctively 'Europeanised'. In political, public and scholarly debates on processes of Europeanisation, Southern Europe invariably features as the area of concern. These concerns have been all the more heightened when the current sovereign debt crisis disproportionately hit this 'flaky fringe'.

This volume systematically investigates the dynamics of Europeanisation in the 'Southern Periphery' by tracing the domestic constellations of ideas, interests and institutions over the course of the 2000s which came to a close with the crisis. Bringing together a multidisciplinary team of leading specialists, the volume focuses on the political economy of public policy reform in Greece, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Spain and Turkey. In order to allow for cross-case comparisons, these original country studies follow a common template framed by what the Editors call the 'Europeanisation as research programme'. The volume casts empirical light on the causes of the crisis in these cases as well as the past legacies conditioning their responses to the crisis. Its conclusions point to variegated patterns of Europeanisation in different policy areas across Southern Europe.

This volume will be of interest to students and scholars of European integration, European political economy, European public policy and comparative politics as well as specialists of Southern Europe.

This book was published as a special issue of South European Society and Politics.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• 1. Europeanisation and Dynamics of Continuity and Change: Domestic Political Economies in the ‘Southern Periphery’
• 2. Europeanisation, Independent Bodies and the Empowerment of Technocracy: The Case of the Greek Auditing Oversight Body
• 3. The Europeanisation of Macroeconomic Policies and Financial Regulation in Italy
• 4. All Hands on Deck! How Europeanised Is the Maltese Labour Market?
• 5. Portugal in the European Union: The Limits of Convergence Sebastian Royo
• 6. Spain’s Catch up with the EU Core: The Implausible Quest of a ‘Flying Pig’? Luis Moreno
• 7. Europeanisation of Employment Policy in Turkey: Tracing Domestic Change through Institutions, Ideas and Interests
• 8. Europeanisation in the ‘Southern Periphery’: Comparative Research Findings on the EU’s Impact on Domestic Political Economies
• Index