The Democratic Constraints to Progressive Policy-Making in Times of Fiscal Adjustment

• In Event: Comparative Political Economics and Representation

Brief Overview

This paper carries out a cross-country comparison of the distributive effects of austerity measures imposed by supranational technocrats vis-à-vis elected governments. Cross-sectional EU-SILC data is used in conjunction with microsimulation methods.

Author

• Fabian Mushövel, London School of Economics and Political Science