Articles by Catherine Moury

September 9, 2024

⛓️ What can political scientists do about the appalling events in Gaza and the West Bank?

Catherine Moury

One of the reasons political scientists are silent on the Israel-Gaza conflict is the fear of being marginalised by the community, writes Catherine Moury. She suggests concrete actions scholars could take to avoid normalising what she – and many fellow academics – consider is nothing short of genocide.

November 22, 2021

Bailed-out governments did not lose policy-making discretion during the Eurozone crisis

Catherine Moury

Catherine Moury, Stella Ladi, Daniel Cardoso and Angie Gago argue that bailed-out governments during the Eurozone crisis exercised more leverage than assumed. Despite international market pressure and creditors’ conditionality, bailed-out governments were able to advocate, resist, shape or roll back some of the policies demanded by the EU’s Troika

February 5, 2021

‘Austerity by stealth’: How the socialist government in Portugal managed electoral success and deficit reduction

Catherine Moury

While socialist parties in Europe struggle in times of austerity, the Portuguese left has found a winning strategy, write Catherine Moury and Elisabetta de Giorgi. Combining discrete austerity measures with some visible anti-austerity ones, they have managed to please constituency and supporting partners alike

Catherine Moury

Associate Professor of Political Science, NOVA University of Lisbon

Catherine's research focuses on comparative politics and institutional change in the European Union.

She has published in the American Journal of Political Science, European Journal of Political Research, and Comparative Political Studies, among others.

Her book Capitalising on Constraint: Bailout Politics in Eurozone Countries, co-authored with with Stella Ladi, Daniel Cardoso and Angie Gago, is published by Manchester University Press.

@mourycatherine

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