Citizen-monitors of public debt in France, Spain, Belgium (2010s) ; Les citoyens-contrôleurs de la dette publique (en France, en Espagne et en Belgique, années 2010)

This thesis compares six citizen debt audit groups in France, Spain, and Belgium. Mobilised from the debt crisis in several European countries at the beginning of the 2010s, citizen-auditors criticise how public authorities intervened in the crisis management, likening it to a dispossession of the capacity of public authorities to act against the most lucrative interests of private financial and economic actors. Such activists therefore advocate for the implementation of mechanisms of surveillance and control of the governed over the powerholders, to control of both the form of financial decis... Mehr ...