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Replication Data for: Instability in the Stability and Growth Pact: The Contribution of Member State Power and Euroskepticism to the Euro Crisis

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Title Replication Data for: Instability in the Stability and Growth Pact: The Contribution of Member State Power and Euroskepticism to the Euro Crisis
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8ROGI1
 
Creator Baerg, Nicole Rae
Hallerberg, Mark
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description The Stability and Growth Pact clearly failed to prevent the euro crisis. We contend that the failure was due largely to the ability of the Member States to undermine the Pact's operation. The European Commission served as a ``watchdog" to monitor fiscal performance. The Member States themselves, however, collectively had the ability to change the content of the reports for individual states. We confirm the expectation that powerful Member States had the most success in undermining the role of the Commission. Perhaps more surprisingly, we find supporting evidence for our argument that governments with euroskeptic populations behind them were also more successful in weakening the Commission's warnings. These results have broader theoretical implications concerning which mechanisms explain country-specific outcomes under a shared rule. Another contribution is the creation a new dataset of European Commission assessments of Member State economic programmes and Council of Minister revisions.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Fiscal policy, enforcement, political economy
 
Contributor Baerg, Nicole Rae