Europe Managing the Crisis

Walter Kickert is Professor of public management at Erasmus University Rotterdam and has since 2006 been the scientific director of the Netherlands Institute of Government, the national inter-university research school of administrative and political sciences. He has carried out international comparative research of public management and administrative reform in European countries from 2006 until 2011 and he was deputy-editor of the international journal Public Administration. Tiina Randma-Liiv is Professor and Chair of Public Management and Public Policy at Tallinn University of Technology, and Fulbright Professor at Florida International University in 2014-2015. She is a member of the Steering Committee of the European Group of Public Administration (EGPA) and is one of the leading scholars on public-management reforms in Central and Eastern Europe, and small-state research as well as on the impact of the Global Crisis on public administration.

Part I: Introduction 1. Introduction 2. Fiscal Crisis and Consolidation 3. Analytical Framework Part II: Fiscal Consolidation 4. Fiscal Consolidation: Contents of Measures 5. Fiscal Consolidation: Decision Making Part III: Causes and Effects of Fiscal Consolidation 6. Explanations of Fiscal Consolidation 7. Effects of Fiscal Consolidation Part IV: Conclusions and Discussion 8. Conclusions and Discussion Appendix: Country Summaries of Economic, Fiscal and Political Data