Schelkle, Waltraud 
ORCID: 0000-0003-4127-107X
(2010)
Good governance in crisis or a good crisis for governance?: a comparison of the EU and the US.
LSE ‘Europe in question’ discussion paper series (no.16/2009).
London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
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Abstract
The crisis since August 2007 provides an opportunity to observe the workings of good governance institutions under an extreme stress test and in radically different political settings. Institutions such as independent central banks, fiscal rules and regulatory oversight of public finances were meant to depoliticize macroeconomic stabilization. The comparison of responses to the crisis in the United States and in the European Union shows that good governance institutions are in crisis in the US while it has been a good crisis for governance so far in the EU. Levels of fiscal stimulus and monetary easing are surprisingly similar between the EU and the US, yet the ECB has maintained its independence and member states have been restrained from inserting protectionist elements in their stimulus measures. By contrast, the boundaries between economic stabilization and distributive politics have been wiped out in the US because neither the political forces in the states nor the economic forces in the financial sector erected many defences. In the EU, the boundaries as drawn are inimical to joint stabilization efforts but this is exactly why they are politically self-enforcing.
| Item Type: | Monograph (Discussion Paper) |
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| Official URL: | http://www2.lse.ac.uk/europeanInstitute/LEQS/LEQSP... |
| Additional Information: | © 2010 The author. Updated version of December 2009 paper. |
| Divisions: | European Institute |
| Subjects: | D History General and Old World > D History (General) > D901 Europe (General) J Political Science > JA Political science (General) E History America > E151 United States (General) |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Oct 2013 14:39 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Sep 2024 20:14 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/53309 |
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