nam 22 uu 4500 10.17176/20181212-173044-0 DE-Verfassungsblog cr||||| 181211s2018||||xx#|||||o|||| ||| 0|eng|| 10.17176/20181212-173044-0 doi eng 342 23 Farahat, Anuscheh Author aut Combatting TINA-Rhetoric through Judicial Review: Dealing with Pay Cuts in Times of Financial Consolidation Farahat, Anuscheh Verfassungsblog 2018-12-11 Text txt rdacontent Computermedien c rdamedia Online-Ressource cr rdacarrier Recently, the German Federal Constitutional Court has decided that certain cuts on wages for civil servants in the Land Baden-Württemberg are unconstitutional. The judgment establishes a constitutional answer to the so-called “there is no alternative” (TINA) rhetoric that has largely dominated the political discourse on budgetary consolidation in the past. From this perspective, this line of jurisprudence allows for opening up a political and constitutional discourse that has become somewhat colonized by purely economic and financial considerations. CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 Austerity legislative procedure pay cuts political discretion Violante, Teresa Author aut Max Steinbeis Verfassungsblog gGmbH Verfassungsblog 2366-7044 https://verfassungsblog.de/combatting-tina-rhetoric-through-judicial-review-dealing-with-pay-cuts-in-times-of-financial-consolidation/ raw object