The Austerity Debate in the Czech Republic
The Austerity Debate in the Czech Republic

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to examine the public discourse on government expenditure in the Czech Republic in the years since the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008. The authors have analysed the blogs of two key policy makers from 2008 to the present, using a political discourse analysis methodology developed by Fairclough and Fairclough (2012).Whilst the politicians who are the subject of this analysis reveal different economic philosophies, there are areas of commonality between their positions. Both emphasize public sector debt reduction as a policy priority and neither have challenged the basic underlying structure of the Czech economy.

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