Overview
- Studies the political economy of de-liberalizing reforms
- Offers case studies from Austria, Germany and Switzerland
- Presents a new dataset on liberalizing and de-liberalizing reform changes in 13 policy fields for 38 countries, namely the Liberalization Database
Part of the book series: Contributions to Political Science (CPS)
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This book explores the politics behind “de-liberalization”, defined as policy reforms that constrain markets and their underlying mechanisms. By offering a comparative study on the governmental reform strategies and policy choices of Austria, Germany and Switzerland, it demonstrates that de-liberalization processes are a common reform option for governments. Utilizing a novel dataset on liberalization covering policy reform trajectories in 38 industrialized countries between 1973 and 2013, it shows that governments often draw on strategies of de-liberalization in the fields of social, welfare and labor market policy, where they can be used as compensation for the electorate in the context of liberalizing reforms. As such, the book makes an important contribution to the field of political economy by capturing the turning of the tide in scholarly and policy attention, away from liberalization and towards a re-embedding and re-regulation of economic activity.
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About the author
Anna Fill is a Post-doctoral researcher at the Chair for Comparative and European politics at the University of Bern. Her research interests include comparative public policy, welfare states and political economy in Europe. Fill holds a doctorate degree in Political Science from the University of Bern, a Master’s degree from the LSE and a BA from the University of Vienna. During her PhD studies, she conducted a six months research stay at the Government department, Harvard University. Before becoming a PhD student, Fill worked in the Austrian Federal Chancellery and for a political consultancy.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Political Economy of De-liberalization
Book Subtitle: A Comparative Study on Austria, Germany and Switzerland
Authors: Anna Fill
Series Title: Contributions to Political Science
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-01066-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-01065-2Published: 14 November 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-01066-9Published: 02 November 2018
Series ISSN: 2198-7289
Series E-ISSN: 2198-7297
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 155
Number of Illustrations: 20 b/w illustrations
Topics: Comparative Politics, Social Choice/Welfare Economics/Public Choice/Political Economy, Social Policy, Public Policy, European Politics, Labor Economics