“Aren’t there any alternatives"?

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Autor(a) principal: Moury, Catherine
Data de Publicação: 2016
Outros Autores: Standring, Adam
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10362/122169
Resumo: UID/CPO/04627/2013
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spelling “Aren’t there any alternatives"?Power and Discourse in Portuguese Austerity PoliticsSDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic GrowthUID/CPO/04627/2013This paper presents an in-depth case study of governmental decision-making in Portugal from 2010 to 2015. To obtain a full understanding of what really happened behind the closed doors of international meetings, we triangulated different types of data: face-to-face interviews with policy-makers, international lenders and Trade Union representatives; investigations by journalists; and IMF and EU official documents. Lastly, we analyze the official discourses of both the former and current Prime Ministers. We show that the sovereign debt crisis and the bailout have strengthened executives’ independence from other national actors. The perceived need for ‘credibility’ to avoid a ‘negative’ reaction from the markets - later associated with the conditions of the bailout - concurrently gave the executives a legitimate justification to concentrate power in their hands and a strong argument to counter the opponents of their proposed reforms. Consequently, Portuguese ministers– when they favored policies that were in congruence with those supported by international actors – were able to use the crisis to advance their own agenda. When they disagreed with Troika representatives, ministers and international lenders engaged in a negotiating process, the final outcome of which depended on the actors’ bargaining powers. Finally, contrary to what we expected, we did not find a strong gap between Prime Ministers’ official discourse and this state of affairs – thus showing limited evidence of discursive depolitization.Departamento de Estudos Políticos (DEPo)Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI)RUNMoury, CatherineStandring, Adam2021-08-06T23:10:50Z20162016-01-01T00:00:00Zconference objectinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion1application/pdfhttp://hdl.handle.net/10362/122169engPURE: 32805358info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessreponame:Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)instname:Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãoinstacron:RCAAP2024-05-22T17:55:00Zoai:run.unl.pt:10362/122169Portal AgregadorONGhttps://www.rcaap.pt/oai/openairemluisa.alvim@gmail.comopendoar:71602024-05-22T17:55Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos) - Agência para a Sociedade do Conhecimento (UMIC) - FCT - Sociedade da Informaçãofalse
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Power and Discourse in Portuguese Austerity Politics
title “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
spellingShingle “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
Moury, Catherine
SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
title_short “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
title_full “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
title_fullStr “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
title_full_unstemmed “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
title_sort “Aren’t there any alternatives"?
author Moury, Catherine
author_facet Moury, Catherine
Standring, Adam
author_role author
author2 Standring, Adam
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Instituto Português de Relações Internacionais (IPRI)
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dc.contributor.author.fl_str_mv Moury, Catherine
Standring, Adam
dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
topic SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
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