Economic policy positions during the European crisis: the Netherlands 2006- 2012. Otjes, S. 2014.
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This paper shows that the standard left-right model no longer suffices to understand the economic policy positions of political parties. It focuses on economic decision-making in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2012. Here decision-making on important welfare state reforms, such as raising the pension age, does not follow the left-right line of conflict, but rather a reform line of conflict that divides parties from the left and the into pro-European reformers oriented at sustainability of the welfare state and euroskeptic defenders of the existing welfare state. The final section offers an interpretation of why this line of conflict developed among Dutch parties after the European economic crisis and the growing influence of the European Commission over budgetary policy.
@unpublished{ otjes_economic_2014,
  title = {Economic policy positions during the {European} crisis: the {Netherlands} 2006- 2012},
  abstract = {This paper shows that the standard left-right model no longer suffices to
understand the economic policy positions of political parties. It focuses on economic
decision-making in the Netherlands between 2006 and 2012. Here decision-making
on important welfare state reforms, such as raising the pension age, does not follow
the left-right line of conflict, but rather a reform line of conflict that divides parties
from the left and the into pro-European reformers oriented at sustainability of the
welfare state and euroskeptic defenders of the existing welfare state. The final section
offers an interpretation of why this line of conflict developed among Dutch parties
after the European economic crisis and the growing influence of the European
Commission over budgetary policy.},
  author = {Otjes, Simon},
  year = {2014}
}

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