Deborah Mabbett
Biographic Data
| ID | 272860 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Deborah Mabbett |
| GIVEN NAMES | Deborah |
| FAMILY NAME | Mabbett |
| SIGNATURE | MABBETT D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Birkbeck, University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7068-0812 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 220 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The Listening Government
Welfare Reform by Numbers
Buying Greenland
The comparative political economy of women's employment
Getting gender onto the radar of comparative political economy
Lessons from the Covid‐19 Inquiry for the Civil Service
IF WE DIDN'T KNOW it before, the Covid-19 inquiry has made it abundantly clear that the UK entered the pandemic with a Prime Minister and a special adviser who were so unsuited to their roles that they made literally a lethal combination. However, it would be a shame if all that is learned is that you don't want to be relying on Boris Johnson and Dominic Cummings in an emergency. Beneath the ##**!# of the WhatsApp messages lie other potentially m…
First Responders, Last Resort
Raising the Pension Age
WHILE PRESIDENT Emmanuel Macron faced street protests over raising the pension age from 62 to 64 in France, the UK government quietly shelved a plan to bring forward an increase in the State Pension age (SPA) to 68 into the 2030s. Major increases have already been implemented. For men the SPA has increased from 65 to 66 and an increase to 67 is going ahead over the period 2026–2028. For women there has been a steeper path (60 in 2010, 66 in 2020 …
London's Ulez: Where Next for Curbing Emissions
If opposition to ULEZ really did tip the Uxbridge by‐election result, we should be surprised. Most voters drive compliant vehicles and might benefit from cleaner air. But the adversely‐affected minority had loud voices, and opposition was mobilised against the very principle of road pricing, with substantial input from home counties Conservatives outside Greater London. It didn't help that the scientific case for ULEZ is not straightforward, alth…
In the shadow of hierarchy: Minimum wage commissions in the UK and Germany
The adoption of statutory minimum wages (MWs) has been accompanied by institutional innovations in the relationship between governments, employers and unions. In the UK and Germany, MW commissions were created to recommend or determine the MW. Their memberships are dominated by trade unionists and employers. Structures that engage the social partners 'in the shadow of hierarchy' can be efficient as well as politically expedient. They will be stab…
A Hapless Government Produces an Unlikely Hero
Among the many unpleasant features of British politics since the Brexit vote have been the persistent attacks by Conservative politicians on the country’s independent public institutions. The BBC and the Supreme Court were perhaps the most high-profile targets, but we have also seen the Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards undermined and criticised. And if the Civil Service ever thought that it was an independent public institution, it has le…
The Everyday Economy: Introduction
This introduction to the everyday economy collection provides a brief summary of the concept as advanced by Julie Froud, Karel Williams and their collaborators at Manchester's Centre for Research on Socio‐Cultural Change, followed by an overview of articles by Anna Coote, Tess Lanning and Rachel Laurence, Sarah Longlands, Alex Colás and Jason Edwards, David Edgerton, Christine Berry, Luke Raikes and Anna Killick
Looking at ‘imperial’ buildings
The Bank of England Loses its Mojo
IN EARLY February, when the Russian invasion of Ukraine was still an unimaginable prospect, the Governor of the Bank of England walked into a political storm by proposing that workers should refrain from pressing for substantial wage increases to compensate for the rising cost of living. Martin Sandbu of the Financial Times nailed one problem with a tweeted question: ‘why does the governor of the Bank of England encourage restraint in wage demand…
The Politics of Power and of Support: Introduction to an Andrew Gamble Inspired Special Section on the Conservative Party
The Conservatives’ Economic Strategy
LONG BEFORE Boris Johnson gave his robust view of business opposition to Brexit, the Conservative Party had an ambivalent relationship to business interests. Mrs Thatcher admired individual businessmen, but disliked the cautious compromise-seeking of the Confederation of British Industry. The aggressive anti-union stance of the Institute of Directors was more to her liking, but it made no pretence of being a representative body. Cameron was more …
Rolling Out the Pork Barrel
THE 2021 BUDGET was notable for the Chancellor's assiduous name checking. There is a long tradition of giving loyal MPs a boost by acknowledging their campaigning efforts in support of special causes, and some of the recipients of Sunak's blessings fall into this category. Thus, North Dorset's Simon Hoare got a plug for ensuring continuation of thalidomide survivor funding, Richard Fuller of North-East Bedfordshire for a green finance initiative,…
Reckless prudence: Financialization in UK pension scheme governance after the crisis
In pensions, the practice of valuation purports to answer the question of whether a pension fund has sufficient assets to honor its promises. Uncertainty about the answer is converted into calculable risk, using the insights of financial economics. This article examines why UK pension funds have ‘derisked’ their portfolios by moving out of assets with volatile prices. It is shown that derisking is produced by the performance of financialized risk…
Equity and Fairness in a Pandemic
the 2020 budget, delivered on 11 March, included measures to address the economic impact of the coronavirus lockdown. The budget envisaged that these impacts would be addressed by business rate cancellation and bridging loans for firms, along with some easing of the rules on Statutory Sick Pay (SSP). SSP is normally paid by the employer for up to twenty-eight weeks; the government would exceptionally cover the cost for the first two weeks. For th…
Testing the Limits of Elective Dictatorship
Independent or lonely? Central banking in crisis
The financial crisis has called our understanding of central bank independence (CBI) into question. Central banks were praised for bold interventions but simultaneously criticized for overreaching their mandates. Central bankers themselves have complained that they are ‘the only game in town’. We develop the second generation theory of CBI to understand how independence can turn into loneliness when a financial crisis calls for cooperation betwee…
A Crisis for Both Parties
watching the Conservative leadership campaign would be an entertaining spectator sport, were it not that the winner will be prime minister, even if briefly. The exorbitant number of contenders and the range of their views makes clear what an achievement it was for Theresa May to hang on to office for as long as she did. True, the threat of ejection by her party forced her hand, causing her to draw too many red lines in the Brexit negotiations and…
Politics, Courts and the UK's Single Market
even among those who welcomed the Supreme Court's decision on the prorogation of Parliament, there has been concern that the Court has entered into dangerous new territory. It might have been forced there by a Prime Minister who failed to observe convention, or by a Parliament that resiled from its duty to remove a government which has no majority, but forced it was, and this is a source of concern and regret. Several commentators have argued tha…
Good Governance for Prosperity and Justice
recent years have not been good to independent committees and policy advisory bodies. Last December, the entire Social Mobility Commission, headed by Alan Milburn, resigned, citing a lack of political progress towards a fairer Britain. Andrew Adonis left the National Infrastructure Commission with a tirade against political dysfunction around Brexit, as well as some specific criticisms of the government's handling of the East Coast mainline rail …
Non-Discrimination, Free Movement, and Social Citizenship in Europe: Contrasting Provisions for EU Nationals and Asylum-Seekers
This chapter describes coordination arrangements governing migrants’ access to social security. It shows that the insurance nature of many benefits has provided a relatively uncontentious basis for the coordination of social security provision for migrants. The chapter examines the situation of non-nationals who stay in, and endeavor to claim benefits from, the host state, rather than returning to their home state. It explores the situation of as…
UK Economic Policy and the Global Financial Crisis: Paradigm Lost
The global financial crisis of 2007–08 produced a sudden change in the economic policy of the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to the crisis, the government preached the gospel of price stability, fiscal prudence and light‐touch financial regulation. In the wake of the crisis, the government countenanced unconventional monetary policies, a surge in public‐sector borrowing and the need for a rethink of financial supervision. This article seeks to unders…
Independent or lonely? Central banking in crisis
The financial crisis has called our understanding of central bank independence (CBI) into question. Central banks were praised for bold interventions but simultaneously criticized for overreaching their mandates. Central bankers themselves have complained that they are ‘the only game in town’. We develop the second generation theory of CBI to understand how independence can turn into loneliness when a financial crisis calls for cooperation betwee…
The Ghost in the Machine: Pension Risks and Regulatory Responses in the United States and the United Kingdom
The United States has introduced automatic enrollment into retirement savings schemes, and the United Kingdom is in the throes of doing so. The financial crisis has reminded us that returns on these schemes can be poor, even negative. Behavioral economics shows that people can be 'nudged' into schemes regardless, but it also implies that the liberal account of market legitimation through informed choice cannot be applied. This article examines ho…
The minimum wage in Germany: What Brought the State In
A statutory minimum wage has been introduced in Germany, in the face of business opposition but abetted by union support. The political coalition in favour of minimum wage regulation brought together the centre-left and the centre-right with the argument that regulation is needed to prevent disfunctional interaction between low wages and the social security system. Thus, the dualization which characterizes Germany's inegalitarian form of co-ordin…
What difference does Euro membership make to stabilization? The political economy of international monetary systems revisited
For many political economists, the loss of monetary sovereignty is the major reason why the Southern periphery fared so badly in the Euro area crisis. Monetary sovereignty here means the ability of the central bank to devalue the exchange rate or to buy government debt by printing the domestic currency. We explore this diagnosis by comparing three countries – Hungary, Latvia and Greece – that received considerable amounts of external assistance u…
Polanyi in B russels or L uxembourg? Social rights and market regulation in E uropean insurance
The decision of the C ourt of J ustice of the E uropean U nion to ban sex discrimination in insurance has shown the potential reach of the principle of non‐discrimination. This paper discusses the different positions taken by participants in the policy process leading up to the decision, in order to reveal the potential and limitations of non‐discrimination as the basis for market‐regulatory social policy. It is shown that the E uropean C ommissi…
Mongrels or thoroughbreds: A cross‐national look at social security systems
This paper reviews the methodological issues raised by different commentators' attempts to categorise countries' social security systems into ‘regime types’ or ‘models’. It is argued that there are two major problems with these categorisations: (1) the difficulty of finding empirical counterparts to the theoretical concepts used; (2) the complexity of actual social security systems, arising in particular from the diversity of benefits within each…
Supplementary Pensions between Social Policy and Social Regulation
The European Commission has developed an analysis of supplementary pensions which constructs the policy area as regulatory by separating ‘allocative’ issues, such as smoothing lifetime income and promoting saving, from traditional ‘redistributive’ or ‘budgetary’ welfare concerns, such as ensuring an adequate minimum income. In the allocative sphere, it promotes market-oriented values, notably ‘actuarial fairness’. However, the progress of Europea…
The Development of Rights-based Social Policy in the European Union: The Example of Disability Rights
This article examines the development of non-discrimination rights in the EU, with particular reference to disability. It outlines the origins of Article 13 TEC, which extended the competence of the Community institutions to combat discrimination, and traces the history of other initiatives in the disability policy area. Programmatic and juridical methods of promoting equality are described and compared. The anal-ysis considers both the different…
Learning by numbers? The use of indicators in the co-ordination of social inclusion policies in Europe
The indicators developed for the open method of co-ordination (OMC) in social inclusion might, according to their authors, serve to establish a common language for the discussion of social inclusion issues, set the agenda for inclusion policies, and provide benchmarks for the identification of best practices. To examine whether ‘learning by numbers’ is taking place, this paper scrutinizes the use of the indicators in the area of child poverty and…
The Politics of Conflict Management in EU Regulation
This article examines how the conflicts latent in EU regulation are managed. First, it looks at how policy issues are framed as positive-sum games, party-political arenas avoided and consensual problem-solving methods of policy-making promoted. Then it addresses the puzzle of the robustness of regulatory conflict management. If challenged in its regulatory endeavour, the EU tends to respond with more regulation. Finally, the article outlines the …
Reckless prudence: Financialization in UK pension scheme governance after the crisis
In pensions, the practice of valuation purports to answer the question of whether a pension fund has sufficient assets to honor its promises. Uncertainty about the answer is converted into calculable risk, using the insights of financial economics. This article examines why UK pension funds have ‘derisked’ their portfolios by moving out of assets with volatile prices. It is shown that derisking is produced by the performance of financialized risk…
Parliamentary Sovereignty and Brexit
For Many people, the first weeks of February were a dispiriting time. After the brief cheer of the Supreme Court's decision, MPs bowed to pressure to accept the referendum as decisive and trooped into the ‘Ayes’ lobby to support the government's authority to trigger Article 50. Albert Weale has brilliantly explained in this journal why this was a dereliction of the democratic duty of those who opposed Brexit. Evidently MPs saw it differently, but…
Bringing Macroeconomics Back into the Political Economy of Reform: The Lisbon Agenda and the ‘Fiscal Philosophy’ of EMU
The Lisbon Strategy supports reform of Member States' tax‐benefit systems while the ‘fiscal philosophy’ of the EMU postulates that governments should allow only automatic stabilizers, built into tax‐benefit systems, to smooth aggregate income. We ask whether these two pillars of EU economic governance are compatible. By exploring how structural reforms affect fiscal stabilization, we complement a political economy literature that asks whether fis…
The comparative political economy of women's employment
Devolved Social Security Systems: Principal-agent versus multi-level governance
This paper presents an analytical framework for comparing patterns of devolution to subnational governments and autonomous social insurance institutions in social security systems. The framework has two components. One is an analysis of financial structures along the dimensions of financial autonomy (indicated by the extent to which the administering institution raises its own revenue or depends on central grants) and financial responsibility (in…
London's Ulez: Where Next for Curbing Emissions
If opposition to ULEZ really did tip the Uxbridge by‐election result, we should be surprised. Most voters drive compliant vehicles and might benefit from cleaner air. But the adversely‐affected minority had loud voices, and opposition was mobilised against the very principle of road pricing, with substantial input from home counties Conservatives outside Greater London. It didn't help that the scientific case for ULEZ is not straightforward, alth…
The Second Time as Tragedy? Welfare Reform under Thatcher and the Coalition
The welfare reforms of the Coalition government are marked by the legacy of Thatcherism. Social security reforms in the 1980s reshaped the system towards reliance on means‐tested benefits. Negative policy feedback created by the opacity and perverse effects of means‐testing has made these benefits an easy target for the Coalition, at least so far as working age people are concerned. Different policy feedbacks affect policy towards old age pension…
Some are More Equal Than Others: Definitions of Disability in Social Policy and Discrimination Law in Europe
This article explores the relationship between anti-discrimination policy and existing social policies directed towards disabled people. It proposes a conception of ‘spheres’ of social policy, in which different spheres advance different dimensions of equality. Within each sphere, definitions of disability are based on relevant comparisons which determine who should be recognised as disabled for the purposes of the policy. Examples of definitions…
Cost containment in complex social security systems: The limitations of targeting
Two aspects of the structure of existing social security systems limit the scope for containing costs by increasing targeting: the insurance principle, and the use of category membership to establish eligibility for benefits. The first aspect is antithetical to targeting because the most needy people are also the most likely to fail to establish an adequate contributions record. Some countries appear committed to maintaining the insurance princip…
Getting gender onto the radar of comparative political economy
The Politics of Power and of Support: Introduction to an Andrew Gamble Inspired Special Section on the Conservative Party
Aspirational Legalism and the Role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Equality Policy
This paper looks at the role of the EHRC in the wider context of measures to promote equality in the welfare state, and highlights two major problems. First, social policy uses categories which are derived from empirical social analysis and processes of policy design, while anti‐discrimination and equality ‘grounds’ (such as gender and ethnic origin) are drawn from the mutual recognition and political mobilisation of groups. The intersection of t…
Social Regulation and the Social Dimension in Europe: The Example of Insurance
This paper examines three aspects of the development of the Single European Market in insurance. First, it looks at the interplay between harmonisation and mutual recognition in the formulation of the directives creating a single market in insurance. Second, it examines the scope for exclusion of ‘insurance forming part of a statutory system of social security‘, which is intended to preserve member states' capacity to undertake their own social p…
In the shadow of hierarchy: Minimum wage commissions in the UK and Germany
The adoption of statutory minimum wages (MWs) has been accompanied by institutional innovations in the relationship between governments, employers and unions. In the UK and Germany, MW commissions were created to recommend or determine the MW. Their memberships are dominated by trade unionists and employers. Structures that engage the social partners 'in the shadow of hierarchy' can be efficient as well as politically expedient. They will be stab…
Mongrels or thoroughbreds: A cross‐national look at social security systems
This paper reviews the methodological issues raised by different commentators' attempts to categorise countries' social security systems into ‘regime types’ or ‘models’. It is argued that there are two major problems with these categorisations: (1) the difficulty of finding empirical counterparts to the theoretical concepts used; (2) the complexity of actual social security systems, arising in particular from the diversity of benefits within each…
Cost containment in complex social security systems: The limitations of targeting
Two aspects of the structure of existing social security systems limit the scope for containing costs by increasing targeting: the insurance principle, and the use of category membership to establish eligibility for benefits. The first aspect is antithetical to targeting because the most needy people are also the most likely to fail to establish an adequate contributions record. Some countries appear committed to maintaining the insurance princip…
Reforming social security in economies in transition: Problems and policies in the former Soviet Republic of Moldova
In the Republic of Moldova, as in other former Soviet republics, a great deal of pressure has been put on the social security system by the removal of general consumer subsidies and their replacement with targeted compensation payments (assistance). The growth of assistance needs has made it difficult to reform earnings‐related pension provision along “insurance” lines. There have also been adverse developments in the labour market. Large‐scale o…
Devolved Social Security Systems: Principal-agent versus multi-level governance
This paper presents an analytical framework for comparing patterns of devolution to subnational governments and autonomous social insurance institutions in social security systems. The framework has two components. One is an analysis of financial structures along the dimensions of financial autonomy (indicated by the extent to which the administering institution raises its own revenue or depends on central grants) and financial responsibility (in…
News and Cases
Social Regulation and the Social Dimension in Europe: The Example of Insurance
This paper examines three aspects of the development of the Single European Market in insurance. First, it looks at the interplay between harmonisation and mutual recognition in the formulation of the directives creating a single market in insurance. Second, it examines the scope for exclusion of ‘insurance forming part of a statutory system of social security‘, which is intended to preserve member states' capacity to undertake their own social p…
Why have disability categories in social security
The specification of categories (for example, unemployment, old age, disability) is a well-established feature of social security. However, disability categories are problematic: the evidence on which decisions have to be made is complex, and understandings of the nature of disability are highly contested. Disability categories could be reformed by unification with other categories used in the same policy area (for example, unemployment) or by fr…
Some are More Equal Than Others: Definitions of Disability in Social Policy and Discrimination Law in Europe
This article explores the relationship between anti-discrimination policy and existing social policies directed towards disabled people. It proposes a conception of ‘spheres’ of social policy, in which different spheres advance different dimensions of equality. Within each sphere, definitions of disability are based on relevant comparisons which determine who should be recognised as disabled for the purposes of the policy. Examples of definitions…
The Development of Rights-based Social Policy in the European Union: The Example of Disability Rights
This article examines the development of non-discrimination rights in the EU, with particular reference to disability. It outlines the origins of Article 13 TEC, which extended the competence of the Community institutions to combat discrimination, and traces the history of other initiatives in the disability policy area. Programmatic and juridical methods of promoting equality are described and compared. The anal-ysis considers both the different…
The Politics of Public Service Bargains: Reward, Competency, Loyalty – And Blame ‐ by Christopher Hood and Martin Lodge
Learning by numbers? The use of indicators in the co-ordination of social inclusion policies in Europe
The indicators developed for the open method of co-ordination (OMC) in social inclusion might, according to their authors, serve to establish a common language for the discussion of social inclusion issues, set the agenda for inclusion policies, and provide benchmarks for the identification of best practices. To examine whether ‘learning by numbers’ is taking place, this paper scrutinizes the use of the indicators in the area of child poverty and…
Bringing Macroeconomics Back into the Political Economy of Reform: The Lisbon Agenda and the ‘Fiscal Philosophy’ of EMU
The Lisbon Strategy supports reform of Member States' tax‐benefit systems while the ‘fiscal philosophy’ of the EMU postulates that governments should allow only automatic stabilizers, built into tax‐benefit systems, to smooth aggregate income. We ask whether these two pillars of EU economic governance are compatible. By exploring how structural reforms affect fiscal stabilization, we complement a political economy literature that asks whether fis…
BRITAIN’s Pension CRISIS: History and Policy ‐ Edited by Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane and Noel Whiteside
BRITAIN’s PENSION CRISIS: HISTORY AND POLICY Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane and Noel Whiteside (eds)British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2006, 270 pp., £14.99 (pb), ISBN: 0197263852 This book is based on a British Academy conference convened in 2005 which sought to analyse the pathologies of British policy-making to explain why pension reform initiatives seem to have left us in a worse place than we started from. At the same time, contributors wer…
Aspirational Legalism and the Role of the Equality and Human Rights Commission in Equality Policy
This paper looks at the role of the EHRC in the wider context of measures to promote equality in the welfare state, and highlights two major problems. First, social policy uses categories which are derived from empirical social analysis and processes of policy design, while anti‐discrimination and equality ‘grounds’ (such as gender and ethnic origin) are drawn from the mutual recognition and political mobilisation of groups. The intersection of t…
Telling tales from abroad: Australia, the Netherlands and the welfare-to-work proposals in the UK
Welfare-to-work schemes operate through two main channels: they monitor compliance with work-related conditions for receiving benefits, and they support people into work with job search assistance and training. This article examines how the privatisation of employment service provision affects the balance between compliance and support. It is suggested that private providers working under contracts which reward employment results have little ince…
The Politics of Conflict Management in EU Regulation
This article examines how the conflicts latent in EU regulation are managed. First, it looks at how policy issues are framed as positive-sum games, party-political arenas avoided and consensual problem-solving methods of policy-making promoted. Then it addresses the puzzle of the robustness of regulatory conflict management. If challenged in its regulatory endeavour, the EU tends to respond with more regulation. Finally, the article outlines the …
Supplementary Pensions between Social Policy and Social Regulation
The European Commission has developed an analysis of supplementary pensions which constructs the policy area as regulatory by separating ‘allocative’ issues, such as smoothing lifetime income and promoting saving, from traditional ‘redistributive’ or ‘budgetary’ welfare concerns, such as ensuring an adequate minimum income. In the allocative sphere, it promotes market-oriented values, notably ‘actuarial fairness’. However, the progress of Europea…
UK Economic Policy and the Global Financial Crisis: Paradigm Lost
The global financial crisis of 2007–08 produced a sudden change in the economic policy of the United Kingdom (UK). Prior to the crisis, the government preached the gospel of price stability, fiscal prudence and light‐touch financial regulation. In the wake of the crisis, the government countenanced unconventional monetary policies, a surge in public‐sector borrowing and the need for a rethink of financial supervision. This article seeks to unders…
The Regulatory Rescue of the Welfare State
The regulatory state and the welfare state can be described in terms of contrasting pairs of ‘types of policies’ and ‘types of politics’ following Lowi (1972). The paradigmatic regulatory type of policy is market coordination, and its type of politics is nonmajoritarian, technical and supranational. The welfare state has redistribution as its paradigmatic type of policy, and the dominant type of politics is majoritarian, party-political and natio…
Free Schools: Big Society or Small Interests
The Ghost in the Machine: Pension Risks and Regulatory Responses in the United States and the United Kingdom
The United States has introduced automatic enrollment into retirement savings schemes, and the United Kingdom is in the throes of doing so. The financial crisis has reminded us that returns on these schemes can be poor, even negative. Behavioral economics shows that people can be 'nudged' into schemes regardless, but it also implies that the liberal account of market legitimation through informed choice cannot be applied. This article examines ho…
The Second Time as Tragedy? Welfare Reform under Thatcher and the Coalition
The welfare reforms of the Coalition government are marked by the legacy of Thatcherism. Social security reforms in the 1980s reshaped the system towards reliance on means‐tested benefits. Negative policy feedback created by the opacity and perverse effects of means‐testing has made these benefits an easy target for the Coalition, at least so far as working age people are concerned. Different policy feedbacks affect policy towards old age pension…
Polanyi in B russels or L uxembourg? Social rights and market regulation in E uropean insurance
The decision of the C ourt of J ustice of the E uropean U nion to ban sex discrimination in insurance has shown the potential reach of the principle of non‐discrimination. This paper discusses the different positions taken by participants in the policy process leading up to the decision, in order to reveal the potential and limitations of non‐discrimination as the basis for market‐regulatory social policy. It is shown that the E uropean C ommissi…
What difference does Euro membership make to stabilization? The political economy of international monetary systems revisited
For many political economists, the loss of monetary sovereignty is the major reason why the Southern periphery fared so badly in the Euro area crisis. Monetary sovereignty here means the ability of the central bank to devalue the exchange rate or to buy government debt by printing the domestic currency. We explore this diagnosis by comparing three countries – Hungary, Latvia and Greece – that received considerable amounts of external assistance u…
Representative and Responsible Immigration Policy: Comment on the collection: The Politics of Immigration: Ukip and Beyond
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