This volume investigates the policies and politics of extreme austerity, setting the crisis in Greece in its global context. Featuring multidisciplinary contributions and an exclusive interview with former Greek Prime Minister George Papandreou, this is the first comprehensive account of the economic crisis at the heart of Europe.

Figures and Tables Acknowledgements Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction: Dissecting the Greek Debt Crisis; Georgios Karyotis and Roman Gerodimos PART I: FRAMING CONTESTS AND CRISIS MANAGEMENT 1. The Contradictions and Battlegrounds of Crisis Management; Andrew Hindmoor and Allan McConnell 2. European Discourses on Managing the Greek Crisis: Denial, Distancing and the Politics of Blame; Dimitris Papadimitriou and Sotirios Zartaloudis 3. 'The Good, the Bad and the Ugly': Stereotypes, Prejudices and Emotions on Greek Media Representation of the EU Financial Crisis; Tereza Capelos and Theofanis Exadaktylos PART II: THE POLICIES OF EXTREME AUSTERITY 4. An Evaluation of the Austerity Strategy in the Eurozone: Was the First Greek Bail-out Programme Bound to Fail?; Sotiria Theodoropoulou and Andrew Watt 5. 'Off-the-Shelf Reforms' and their Blind Spots: Pensions in Post-Memorandum Greece; Platon Tinios 6. A 'Fairweather Welfare State'? Formal and Informal Social Protection and theGreek Crisis; Antigone Lyberaki and Platon Tinios PART III: THE POLITICS OF EXTREME AUSTERITY 7. Protest Participation, Electoral Choices and Public Attitudes towards Austerity in Greece; Georgios Karyotis and Wolfgang Rüdig 8. Anger Management and the Politics of Crime in the Greek Crisis; Sappho Xenakis and Leonidas Cheliotis 9. Re-organising Everyday Greek Social Reality: Subjective Experiences of the Greek Crisis; Athanasia Chalari PART IV: THE CRISIS BEYOND GREECE 10. Structure, Agents and Discourse in Managing Economic Crises: Comparing Greece and Turkey; Dimitris Tsarouhas 11. The Politics of Fiscal Efforts in Ireland and Spain: Market Credibility versus Political Legitimacy; Sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda and Niamh Hardiman 12. Credibility Dilemmas during Economic Crises: Greece in the Argentine Mirror; sebastian Dellepiane-Avellaneda 13. Reflections on the Greek and Eurozone Crisis: A View from the Inside; George Papandreou CONCLUSION 14. Austerity Politics and Crisis Governance: Lessons from Greece; Roman Gerodimos and Georgios Karyotis Bibliography Appendix: A Timeline of the Greek and Eurozone Crises Index