Euro-zone crisis management explicitly treated elections as threatening sound policy.

Evidence

In short, too much democracy is harmful and inherently inflationary. … It should come as no surprise that such an antidemocratic view was commonplace among technocrats like Monti and Lucas Papademos, or hard-headed conservatives like Samaras and Rajoy. The center-left, on the other hand, had nothing better to propose than a weaker dose of the same medicine. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment, 115

Categorization

• XREF: Specific echo of the critique traced in ch3 that elites saw voters as irrational threats; ties to representation-crisis theme. — connects to: The euro’s design deliberately enforced German-model reforms through power asymmetries. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 110; The sovereign debt narrative mislabeled private-debt crises as state profligacy. — Arthur Borriello and Anton Jäger, The Populist Moment: The Left After the…, 106