Contesting Austerity: A Socio-Legal Inquiry



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English | ISBN: 1509942815 | 2021 | 368 pages | PDF | 2 MB

This book addresses the different forms of austerity, contestation and resistance, in order to understand how they relate to one another and the impact they have on the cratic quality of public debates, the trust in public institutions and the legitimacy of law.

Contestation of austerity includes not only traditional activism strategies such as human rights litigation and direct cracy instruments, but also new forms of collective action and collaborative resistance. Most importantly, many of the new anti-austerity initiatives also aim to renovate existing modes of cratic decision-making on the European, national, regional and local levels. The book focuses on different types of contesting austerity measures and the interaction between institutional and civil society actors. It will enhance understanding of how the various actors frame not only their goal but also the underlying social conflict to contest austerity and through which means they try to achieve political and legal changes.