Politics in the new hard times : the great recession in comparative perspective /

"The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the cr...

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Group Author: Kahler, Miles, 1949- (Editor); Lake, David A., 1956- (Editor)
Published: Cornell University Press,
Publisher Address: Ithaca [N.Y.] :
Publication Dates: 2013.
Literature type: Book
Language: English
Series: Cornell studies in political economy
Cornell paperbacks
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Summary: "The Great Recession and its aftershocks, including the Eurozone banking and debt crisis, add up to the worst global economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Although economic explanations for the Great Recession have proliferated, the political causes and consequences of the crisis have received less systematic attention. Politics in the New Hard Times is the first book to focus on the Great Recession as a political crisis, one with both political sources and political consequences. The authors examine variation in crises over time and across countries, rather than treating these events as undifferentiated shocks. Chapters also explore how crisis has forced the redefinition and reinforcement of interests at the level of individual attitudes and in national political coalitions. Throughout, the authors stress that the Great Recession is only the latest in a long history of international economic crises with significant political effects--and that it is unlikely to be the last."--Publisher's website.
Carrier Form: xii, 316 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 9780801478277 :
0801478278
Index Number: HB3717 2008
CLC: D5
F831.59
Call Number: F831.59/P769-1
Contents: Anatomy of crisis : the great recession and political change / Miles Kahler and David A. Lake -- Economic crisis and global governance : the stability of a globalized world / Miles Kahler -- Politics in hard times revisited : the 2008-09 financial crisis in emerging markets / Stephan Haggard -- Partisan financial cycles / J. Lawrence Broz -- The politics of hard times : fiscal policy and the endogeneity of economic recessions / Pablo M. Pinto -- The political origins of our economic discontents : contemporary adjustment problems in historical perspective / Peter A. Hall -- Puzzles from the first globalization / Suzanne Berger -- Portfolio politics in the new hard times : crises, coalitions and shareholders in the United States and Germany / James Shinn -- Coalition of losers : why agricultural protectionism survived during the great recession / Megumi Naoi and Ikuo Kume -- Crafting trade strategy in the great recession : the Obama administration and the changing political economy of the United States / Peter Cowhey -- Worlds in collision : uncertainty and risk in hard times / Peter J. Katzenstein and Steven C. Nelson -- Yet more hard times? : reflections on the great recession in the frame of earlier hard times / Peter A. Gourevitch.