The Oxford Handbook of Governance presents an authoritative and accessible state-of-the-
art analysis of the social science literature on governance. The volume presents the core …

This contribution asks whether the Memoranda of Understanding on Specific Economic
Policy Conditionality (MoU), signed between bailed out member states and the European …

Performance-based aid has been proposed as an alternative to the failed traditional
approach whereby donors make aid conditional on the reform promises of recipient …

South European labour markets have gone through a substantial level of downward
adjustment in wages (internal devaluation) and liberalisation in the aftermath of the …

EMU structural asymmetries contributed directly to both procyclical debt-fuelled growth pre-
crisis and sharply recessionary adjustment post-crisis. Greece's fiscal and debt crisis …

This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in
Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive …

The Greek case stands out as the first crisis country and the only one to undergo several
economic adjustment programs. As in the other case studies, Greece had used the EU as an …

The 2008 financial crisis found the Greek economy in a position of fiscal vulnerability, given
the large public debt, and structural weaknesses, demonstrated in a huge current account …

The eurozone crisis had a more significant and longer-lasting impact on Italy than on
virtually any other member state, with the effects still visible a decade after. The extent of the …

This article proposes a framework to understand and explain the occurrence of policy
reversals. We argue that the occurrence and absence of policy reversals is shaped by the …