Influence of the EU (and the IMF) on domestic cutback management: a nine-country comparative analysis

Kickert, Walter; Ongaro, Edoardo

doi:10.1080/14719037.2019.1618383

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“…At the policy level, the new architecture of policy conditionality has impacted at multiple levels: fiscal, economic and social policy of Member-States (Crespy and Menz, 2015; Henning, 2017; Verdun and Zeitlin, 2018). The politics and policy of fiscal consolidation have implications on public budgets and, ultimately, its impact in terms of reducing the administrative capacities of the affected countries (Kickert and Ongaro, 2019; Kickert and Randma-Liiv, 2015; Randma-Liiv and Kickert, 2018; Spanou, 2020) and hence, ultimately, possibly their capacity to cope with new and unexpected high-impact crises.…”

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Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars

Dunlop

Ongaro

Baker

2020

Public Policy and Administration

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Coronavirus (COVID-19) is one of the defining policy challenges of an era. In this article, we sketch some possible ways in which the public policy and administration community can make an enduring contribution about how to cope with this terrible crisis. We do so by offering some elements that delineate a tentative research agenda for public policy and administration scholars, to be pursued with epistemic humility. We outline the contours of seven analytical themes that are central to the challenges presented by COVID-19: policy design and instruments, policy learning, public service and its publics, organisational capacity, public governance, administrative traditions and public sector reforms in multi-level governance (MLG). The list is neither exhaustive nor exclusive to COVID-19. The knowledge we can generate must speak not only to the daunting challenge of COVID-19 itself but also to policymakers, and indeed humankind, trying to cope with future unexpected but high impact threats, by leveraging better public policies and building administrative capacities to enable more resilient, equitable and effective public services.

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Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars

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Ongaro

Baker

2020

Public Policy and Administration

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“…Although all Eurozone countries were affected by the global crisis, the most exposed countries were the Eurozone periphery countries (PIGS). Therefore, resolving the public debt problem of Greece was raised on a supranational level using bail-out mechanisms (Kickert & Ongaro, 2019). Schuknecht et al (2011) write about the justification of using the bail-out mechanism in the PIGS countries, as a solution for unbridled public finances and growing public debt.…”

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“…The public debt crisis that hit Greece in 2010 according to Kickert and Ongaro (2019) could not have been resolved nationally. Even before the outbreak of the crisis, Greece had a level of public debt that exceeded the allowed threshold of 60% of GDP (the Maastricht Treaty), therefore after the coup, it faced indebtedness that led to bankruptcy.…”

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Effectiveness of bail-out mechanisms in the Eurozone: Global vs. pandemic crisis

Beljić¹,

Glavaški²

2021

Anali Ekon fak Subotica

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This paper analyses the effectiveness of bail-out mechanisms after the global crisis in comparison to Covid-19 pandemic crisis in the selected Eurozone economies. It seems that in the circumstances of global instability, laissez-faire rules in economy are not enough, meaning that government interventions are desirable and unavoidable. In the Eurozone, the implementation of bail-out programs is related with the problem of a new "impossible trinity" and no-bail out clause. However, the adopted clause on non-use of the bail-out mechanism has had to be ignored several times in the past, and those implementations of bail-outs are focus of this paper. The research is based on descriptive statistical analysis and fixed panel model specification using available data in relation to the bail-out programs in the period 2011-2020 in selected Eurozone economies. The research shows that governments appear to have learned at least three lessons from the global crisis in relation to the bail-out mechanisms: (a) the need for quick implementation of emergency measures, (b) the bail-out mechanism was effective in reducing the fiscal deficit, however, caused an increase in the public debt, and (c) strengthening the fiscal framework of the Eurozone economies by defining supranational fiscal rules remains the essence of a stronger Eurozone and the European Union.

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“…The cutback repertoire proved to be effective in containing government spending, and this positively fed back on the response that followed the 2008 global crisis. That crisis intensified pressures from the European Union that contributed to making the redress of fiscal imbalances only one of the imperative reactions to the sovereign debt crisis (Kickert & Ongaro, 2019). Conversely, New Public Management-inspired reforms have suffered from major implementation gaps since the late 1990s, when it became apparent that tumultuous changes in government were associated with poorer performance (Di Mascio & Natalini, 2014).…”

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Public Administration and Creeping Crises: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

Mascio

Natalini

Cacciatore³

2020

The American Review of Public Administration

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The COVID-19 pandemic has demonstrated that a new and unforeseen threat easily outmatched political-administrative systems currently in place. Our commentary on the Italian case contributes to the call for public administration scholars to incorporate crisis management into the main research agendas of the field. We focus on regulatory capacity that is needed to tackle the effects of COVID-19. Under crisis conditions of radical urgency and uncertainty, the Italian regulatory policy has been based on temporary, fast-track procedures. The latter have been regularly applied when Italian governments confront with natural disasters and prompt action is ensured by a repertoire of extraordinary measures running in parallel to burdensome ordinary procedures. We discuss the implications of this “two-track” approach for governance capacity and legitimacy. We also extrapolate existing trends and engage with projection of future developments.

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Influence of the EU (and the IMF) on domestic cutback management: a nine-country comparative analysis

Cited by 10 publications

References 28 publications

Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars

Researching COVID-19: A research agenda for public policy and administration scholars

Effectiveness of bail-out mechanisms in the Eurozone: Global vs. pandemic crisis

Public Administration and Creeping Crises: Insights From COVID-19 Pandemic in Italy

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