Convergence, divergence and policy
Portugal in the European Union
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8041858 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Pedro Lains (0000-0003-1810-1734, Instituto de Ciências Sociais, University of Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 1094-1114 |
| Publication date | 2018-11-20 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | West European Politics (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0140-2382 • E-ISSN: 1743-9655 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/01402382.2018.1522833 |
| OpenAlex | W2897739337 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 43 |
This article deals with the connections between economic policy and economic convergence and divergence in the European Union, by looking at the case of Portugal, still today one of its least developed member states. European and domestic economic policies changed across the period here studied, shifting from an emphasis on programmes aimed at fostering investment in infrastructure and knowledge, such as the structural and regional development funds, to policies giving greater relevance to fiscal and financial equilibria. This shift in policies was followed by economic divergence. As the negative correlation between growth and monetarist policies became increasingly salient, electoral shifts and governmental change led to an overhaul of economic policy. One-size-fits-all European monetary policies lowered the potential for integration, whereas a higher level of domestic participation may lead to the opposite effect, opening up the prospect of higher growth and a return to a slower, but more balanced economic convergence. The experience of the periphery may therefore have lessons for the deepening of European integration
Convergence (economics · Divergence (linguistics · Economic policy · Economic system · Economics · European union · Fiscal policy · International economics · Investment (military · Macroeconomics · Political science · Politics · Salient · Local Government Finance and Decentralization · Regional Development and Policy · Social Policy and Reform Studies
The European Crisis
Structural Adjustment and Neoliberal Convergence in Labour Markets and Welfare
The Elections of the Great Recession in Portugal
Divergence via Europeanisation
Political Credit Cycles
The Economic Future of Europe
Judicial Behavior under Austerity
The imbalance of capitalisms in the Eurozone
The Political Economy of Austerity in Southern Europe
The peripheralization of Southern European capitalism within the EMU
Semi-peripheral financialisation
Euro Crisis and plurality
Postwar Economic Reconstruction and Lessons for the East Today
Catching up to the European core
Making states for the single market
Varieties of Capitalism and the Euro Crisis
The Europeanization of Portuguese Democracy
Varieties of capitalism in light of the euro crisis
Back to External Pressure
Mild Mannered’? Protest and Mobilisation in Portugal under Austerity, 2010–2013
Elites' and Voters' Attitudes towards Austerity Policies and their Consequences in Greece and Portugal
The 2015 Portuguese Legislative Election
Depoliticising austerity
European Monetary Integration and the Incompatibility of National Varieties of Capitalism
European Monetary Integration with Benefit of Hindsight
European Economic and Monetary Union’s perverse effects on sectoral wage inflation
Going beyond the Troika
Rethinking pathways to democracy
The power of peripheral governments
Democratic Practice after the Revolution
| Unique citing works | 3 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,43 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2021 (3) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 3 |