Equality, freedom, and democracy : Europe after the great recession /

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Author / Creator:Morlino, Leonardo, 1947- author.
Imprint:Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12572765
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Other authors / contributors:Piana, Daniela, author.
Quaranta, Mario, author.
Raniolo, Francesco, author.
Sottilotta, Cecilia Emma, author.
Wagemann, Claudius, author.
ISBN:9780192543424
0192543423
9780192543431
0192543431
9780191851612
0191851612
0198813872
9780198813873
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed April 14, 2021).
Summary:A wide-ranging analysis of the impact on European freedom and equality of the Great Recession of 2008.
Other form:Print version: Morlino, Leonardo, 1947- Equality, freedom, and democracy. First edition. Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 0198813872
Table of Contents:
  • Intro
  • Halftitle page
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Foreword
  • Table of Contents
  • List of Contributors
  • List of Figures
  • List of Tables
  • 1. How to Grasp the Key Democratic Transformations
  • 1.1 The Key Questions
  • 1.2 What Is Equality?
  • 1.3 What Is Freedom?
  • 1.4 What Next?
  • 2. Inequalities
  • 2.1 Not Only a Macro Perspective
  • 2.2 Economic Inequality
  • 2.3 Social Inequality
  • 2.4 Ethnic Inequality and Immigration
  • 2.5 Initial Concluding Remarks
  • 3. Freedoms
  • 3.1 The Interplay of Two Policy Waves
  • 3.2 Personal Dignity: Unexpected Alarm
  • 3.3 Civil Rights: A Portrait in 'Chiaroscuro'
  • 3.4 Political Rights: More Public Spaces, Fewer Freedoms?
  • 3.5 Subverting Freedoms: An Excursus on Poland
  • 3.6 Initial Concluding Remarks
  • 4. Demand and Supply: Citizens and Leaders
  • 4.1 The Next Step
  • 4.2 Disaffected Democracies?
  • 4.3 What People Want
  • 4.4 What Parties Commit To
  • 4.5 Taking Stock to Go Ahead
  • 5. Domestic Explanations: Inequalities
  • 5.1 Starting from the Research Questions Again
  • 5.2 What Affects Inequalities and Why
  • 5.3 Factors at Play: Context and Institutions
  • 5.4 The Relevant Actors: The Neo-Populist Challenge
  • 5.5 Stronger Left, Lower Inequality?
  • 5.6 Summing Up
  • 6. Domestic Explanations: Freedoms
  • 6.1 What Affects Freedoms and Where?
  • 6.2 The Rule of Law Compound Hypothesis
  • 6.3 The Additional Explanatory Steps
  • 6.4 Civil Rights, Protection of Dignity, and the Improvement of Justice Systems
  • 6.5 Summing Up
  • 7. External Explanations: The European Union
  • 7.1 What Equalities and Freedoms Does the EU Bring?
  • 7.2 EU Influence on Equalities
  • 7.3 EU Influence on Freedoms
  • 7.4 Cross-sectional Policies: Cohesion, Migration, Digital Market
  • 7.5 Concluding Remarks
  • 8. Is There a Comprehensive Explanation?
  • 8.1 Questions Still to Be Answered
  • 8.2 Are (In)equalities and Freedoms Intertwined?
  • 8.3 Building an Explanatory Model
  • 8.4 Are There Alternative Explanations?
  • 8.5 Before Concluding
  • 9. Rethinking Democracy? Concluding Remarks
  • 9.1 Empirical Perspectives in Implementing Equality and Freedom
  • 9.2 What Could We Do to Promote the Two Values?
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Authors
  • General Index