Contesting Austerity by Anuscheh Farahat, Xabier Arzoz - 9781509942817

Contesting AusterityA Socio-Legal Inquiry\nAuthor(s): Anuscheh Farahat, Xabier Arzoz\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Hart Publishing\nISBN-13: 9781509942817, 978-1509942817\nSynopsis\nThis book addresses the different forms of austerity, contestation and resistance, in order to understand how they relate to one another and the impact they have on the democratic quality of public debates, the trust in public institutions and the legitimacy of law. \n\nContestation of austerity includes not only traditional activism strategies such as human rights litigation and direct democracy instruments, but also new forms of collective action and collaborative resistance. Most importantly, many of the new anti-austerity initiatives also aim to renovate existing modes of democratic decision-making on the European, national, regional and local levels. The book focuses on different types of contesting austerity measures and the interaction between ins.