Stephen McBride is Canada Research Chair in Public Policy and Globalization and Professor in the Department of Political Science at McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.Bryan Evans is Professor in the Department of Politics and Public Administration at Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada.Dieter Plehwe is Senior Research Fellow in the Center for Civil Society Research, WZB, Berlin Social Science Center and Privatdozent (Private Lecturer) in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kassel, Germany.

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• Introduction: The changing politics and policy of austerity - Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride and Dieter PlehwePart 1: Austerity and the promotion of the private1. Beyond austerity: pro-public strategies versus public-private partnerships scandals - Heather Whiteside2. Institutionalizing austerity accounting in Europe: The implementation of European Public Sector Accounting Standards (EPSAS) as crisis response - Sebastian BotzemPart 2: Coping and casualties: Labour and the social3. A fragile triangle: Collective bargaining systems, trade unions and the state in the EU - Steffen Lehndorff4. Privatizing the sacrifice: Individualized funding, austerity and precarity in the voluntary sector in Australia and Scotland - Donna Baines, Ian Cunningham, Philip James and Chandrima Roy5. Austerity and the social innovation agenda - Meghan Joy, John Shields, Sharon Broughton and Siu Mee ChengPart 3: Beyond coping: Protest, pathologies and the development of real alternatives6. Politics as an alternative to constitutionalization - Stephen McBride and Joy Schnittker7. There could be alternatives! German economic advisory councils and the institutional reproduction of austerity economics - Dieter Plehwe and Moritz Neujeffski8. Negotiated austerity? A comparative survey of social concertation in Canada, Denmark, Ireland and Spain - Bryan Evans, Stephen McBride and James Watson9. Market populism, its right-wing offspring and left alternatives - Ingo Schmidt10. Austerity-induced populism: the rise and transformation of the new right - Hans-Jürgen Bieling11. Reducing the burden: International struggles against illegitimate debt - Christoph Sorg12. The crisis next time: the GFC and the continuing fragility of capitalism - Jim Stanford13. Austerity after COVID-19: Towards inclusive economic governance in Europe - Hans-Jürgen Urban and Sebastian Bödeker14 Conclusion - Stephen McBride, Dieter Plehwe and Bryan Evans