Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2014

Publication Title

The European Union Beyond the Crisis: Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanted Publics

Pages

123-144

Publisher Name

Lexington Books

Publisher Location

Lanham

Abstract

The European sovereign debt crisis provides an excellent opportunity for examining the extent to which public preferences constrain member state preferences for EU policy solutions. We examine the influence of public opinion on austerity, spending, and regulation on member state preferences on 4 major EU solutions to the crisis from 20I0-2011: the initial Greek financial rescue, the creation of the European Stability Mechanism, the reform of the Stability and Growth pact, and enhanced EU financial regulation. Our analysis reveals that prior to elections and/or when there is a degree of fragmentation in the governing party or coalition public opinion constrains member state preferences. In the absence of these conditions, however, member states ignored public opinion and followed elite preferences concerning solutions to the sovereign debt crisis.

Identifier

9781498503471

Comments

Author Posting. © Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group 2014. This work is posted here with permission of the publisher Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group for personal use, not for redistribution. All rights reserved. The officially published version appears in The European Union Beyond the Crisis: Evolving Governance, Contested Policies, and Disenchanged Publics, 2014, https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781498503488/The-European-Union-beyond-the-Crisis-Evolving-Governance-Contested-Policies-and-Disenchanted-Publics

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