Bäck on the timing of austerity reforms
This article is over 5 years old, and the information may therefore be outdated. Do governing parties strategically time welfare benefit cuts and other austerity policies to help them win elections? Hanna Bäck has, together with med Daniel Strobl, Wolfgang Müller and Mariyana Angelova analyzed this question in a comparative analysis of the Western European countries. You can read about their resul
https://www.svet.lu.se/en/article/back-timing-austerity-reforms - 2026-05-19
