This article problematizes the neoliberal reconfiguration of labour rights in Lithuania, a newer European Union member state, in which the impacts of the global economic and financial crisis were particularly severe and where radical austerity measures were subsequently imposed. Now, after six years, in an attempt to resolve the exhaustion of previous austerity-based solutions for economic reco...

Policy responses to the economic crisis have manifest consequences to European population health and health systems. The aim of this article is to assess, by using the capability approach advanced by Sen, the ethical dimension of trade-offs made in health policy due to austerity measures. From a capability approach point of view, austerity measures such as reducing resources for health care, fu...

This paper constructs a dynamic model of government borrowing and default. The government faces a fiscal constraint in that it cannot raise tax rates. By defaulting on the debt, the government can increase domestic consumption. Two types of default arise in this environment: fiscal defaults and aggregate defaults. Fiscal defaults occur because the government cannot service the debt due to its i...

The impact of austerity on urban governance has become a key area academic concern, but many studies tend to interpret the effect individual state bodies through analysis broader relations, whilst also framing as an overarching and homogeneous set ideas, values practices. In response, this paper examines city government’s economic development department means in which understand how heterogeneo...

European Political Science Review / Volume 5 / Issue 03 / November 2013, pp 431 455 DOI: 10.1017/S1755773912000197, Published online: 02 October 2012 Link to this article: http://journals.cambridge.org/abstract_S1755773912000197 How to cite this article: Sabina Avdagic (2013). Partisanship, political constraints, and employment protection reforms in an era of austerity. European Political Scien...