• DOI:10.1177/0888325412465513
Corpus ID: 144784730

Sovereign Debt, Austerity, and Regime Change

@article{Ban2012SovereignDA,
  title={Sovereign Debt, Austerity, and Regime Change},
  author={Cornel Ban},
  journal={East European Politics & Societies and Cultures},
  year={2012},
  volume={26},
  pages={743 - 776}
}

• Cornel Ban
• Published 2012
• Political Science
• East European Politics & Societies and Cultures

Historically, high sovereign debt and austerity policies have coincided with regime-changing popular uprisings. Nicolae Ceausescu’s Romania was no exception. Why, when faced with a sovereign debt crisis in the 1980s, did his regime choose to pay its foreign debt as early as possible, at the cost of economic recession and dramatically compressed consumption? How did these choices relate to the regime’s failure to survive the end of the decade? The article argues that while exogenous shocks… Expand

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