Introduction : politics in the age of austerity / Armin Schäfer and Wolfgang StreeckPublic finance and the decline of state capacity in democratic capitalism / Wolfgang Streeck and Daniel Mertens Tax competition and fiscal democracy / Philipp Genschel and Peter Schwarz Governing as an engineering problem : the political economic of Swedish success / Sven Steinmo Monetary union, fiscal crisis and the disabling of democratic accountability / Fritz W. Scharpf Smaghi versus the parties : representative government and institutional constraints / Peter Mair Liberalization, inequality and democracy's discontent / Armin Schäfer Participatory inequality in the austerity state : a supply-side approach / Claus Offe From markets versus states to corporations versus civil society? / Colin Crouch The normalization of the right in post-security Europe / Mabel Berezin The crisis in context : democratic capitalism and its contradictions / Wolfgang Streeck. | 
