...This chapter notes that New Labour provides an important case study, given that the Labour government was responsible for determining and implementing British foreign economic policy during the period in question. The Labour Party's move to ‘the right’ is one of the most important changes...

...This chapter is concerned with the 1920s, the time of the New Economic Policy (NEP). It deals with the return to private housing, the establishment of an official norm of living space, and the policies of ‘compression’ and ‘self-compression’. The ‘housing revolution’ of War Communism came to an end...

...In the USSR, concerns about security in relation to the economy were institutionalised. With the partial exception of the final years under Mikhail Gorbachev, it was accepted as normal that security considerations exerted a strong influence on economic policy and on the public presentation...

... approaches to social and economic policy formulation. Tensions within the Executive, and between it and the civil service, are examined to assess if these restricted policy formulation. The chapter also demonstrates the Executive's awareness of potential constraints on its ability to implement its programme...

...This chapter looks at economic policy in Northern Ireland in the context of severe economic difficulties experienced by the UK as a whole. It shows how the Labour government sought to shield Northern Ireland from economic realities because of the conflict, increasing public expenditure...

... of the global financial crisis. Cyprus New Democracy PASOK Panhellenic Socialist Movement Structural Funds Italy reforms tax evasion economic policy growth hand outs inequality public administration Sarkozy Nicolas convergence deficit employment investments modernisation patronage protests...

... Papandreou Economic policy In the October 2009 elections PASOK secured a resounding victory over New Democracy. ¹ The result scuppered New Democracy’s plan for an expedient return to power. The result of these elections was instrumental in the admission and revelation of the true scope...

... Union confidence of the markets Germany interest rates Lagarde Chistine loans Sarkozy Nicolas Financial Times Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung FAZ liquidity economic governance Greece Eurozone IMF European Council Debt Economic policy On 15 January 2010, the government published a new...

... that Sinn Féin's opposition to the new economic policy constituted a reactionary rejection of modernisation. Private enterprise was deemed to be preferable to state control, which would be confined to ‘essential industries’, but was subordinated to the overall interests of the state and its citizens...

...This chapter investigates how Europeanisation has impacted on Ireland's economy and the implementation of economic policy. It considers the pre-existing policies and polity that existed prior to European Economic Community (EEC) membership with a view to understanding the underlying domestic...

... credibility ECB European Central Bank hand outs PASOK Panhellenic Socialist Movement stability Ecofin Economic and Financial Affairs Council fiscal discipline labour relations markets privatisations Rompuy Van Troika Greece Eurozone IMF Troika Bailout Debt Economic policy The only thing...

... public sector salaries VAT value added tax Greece IMF International Monetary Fund poverty European Commission recession social security system Troika growth markets Memoranda employment energy minimum wage protests social justice tax evasion taxes competitiveness economic policy...

... Eurogroup privatisations Troika austerity ESM European Stability Mechanism European Council Eurozone competitiveness Euro Plus Pact European Semester financial markets fiscal discipline interest rates markets Periphery European banking sector Eurozone Greece Economic policy Privatisation...

... Socialist Movement Papandreou George Portugal Sarkozy Nicolas credit rating haircut Eurozone Greece France Germany EFSF Debt Memorandum Economic policy Anxiety and uncertainty mounted. The Troika report on the sustainability of Greek sovereign debt published in October 2011, conducted as part...

... into their ideologies. Moreover, these meanings were not dependent on any particular ideological tradition, including neoliberalism. Although the globalisation concept was, at least to some extent, novel and independent, it has meanings that by necessity favoured some policy positions on foreign economic policy...

...The ‘globalisation’ concept has become ubiquitous in British politics, as it has in many countries of the world. This book examines discourse on foreign economic policy to determine the impact of globalisation across the ideological landscape of British politics. It critically interrogates...

... a more holistic and explanatory understanding of the current Russian regime. It also outlines the securitisation approach and assesses its applicability to domestic politics in contemporary Russia, focusing on areas such as security and the Chechen conflict, economic policy, and migration policy. Putin...

...Economic policy has often been written about as though it were simply a vulgarized version of economic theory. Admittedly, nobody supposes that the content of economic theory is inviolable or unchanging, embodying truths universally true over time. But the relationship is nonetheless often assumed...

... the role of informal policy deliberation with regard to different aspects of economic policy coordination in the euro area. agenda of Eurogroup meetings content of negotiations deliberation ideas changeover to the euro economic situation learning multilateral surveillance policy mix reflection...

...In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, historians of England pioneered a series of new approaches to the history of economic policy. Commerce, Finances and Statecraft charts the development of these forms of writing and explores the role they played in the period's economic...