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The Politics of Bad Options - Why the Eurozone's Problems Have Been So Hard to Resolve [SNSF-funded project "Distributional Conflicts and the Politics of Adjustment in the Eurozone Crisis"]

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Méthode de collecte

1) Quantitative analysis of 142 episodes of balance-of-payments crises and 272 episodes of substantial current account surpluses for a wide set of deficit and surplus countries over the period 1990-2014. 2) Collection and analysis of survey data from 716 interest groups in three deficit countries (Ireland, Greece, Spain) and three surplus countries (Austria, Germany, the Netherlands) 3) Qualitative comparative case studies of the domestic politics of the euro crisis in these countries based on primary and secondary sources sch as newspaper coverage, voter public opinion data, interest group position papers, sovereign bailout documentation 4) Qualitative interviews with 47 national interest group representatives in the six countries

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Univers de référence, unité de recherche

Interest groups that engage with domestic economic or social policy issues

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All publicly listed interest groups were contacted multiple times, data are those that responded

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Univers de référence, unité de recherche

Episodes of balance-of-payments crises and episodes of substantial current account surpluses worldwide.

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based on data availibility

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Univers de référence, unité de recherche

Politicians, interest group representatives

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Key actors, referrals

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Univers de référence, unité de recherche

EMU-related council decisions, based on the EMU Choices dataset, available at https://emuchoices.eu/data/emup/

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All EU Council decisions on adjustment or financing issues

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Qualitative comparative case studies

Univers de référence, unité de recherche

Austria, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Netherlands and Spain

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