Democracy under stress : The global crisis and beyond [[electronic resource]] / Ursula J. van Beek, Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910311931203321
• Autore: van Beek Ursula J
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Leverkusen, : Verlag Barbara Budrich, 2011; 2011, c2012
• ISBN: 3-86649-580-3
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations
• Disciplina: 321.8
• Soggetti: democracy; Financial crisis; political processes
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: The crisis that shook the world / Ursula J. van Beek -- Collapse : the story of the international financial crisis, its causes and policy consequences / Stan du Plessis -- The impact of the Great Depression on democracy / Dirk Berg-Schlosser -- The crisis : possible impacts on economic systems and policy / Philip Mohr -- Democracy, error correction and the global economy / Laurence Whitehead -- The model of liberal democracy and varieties of capitalism / Ursula Hoffmann-Lange -- China and the crisis in historical perspective / Ursula van Beek -- A new bi-polarisation? / Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski -- Chinese crisis management : consolidated authoritarian capitalism as a new brand of political regime? / Han Sang-Jin and Lü Peng -- The Great Recession and its potential impact on popular culture in liberal democracies / Pierre du Toit -- Global solutions? : searching for democratic approaches to a new world order / Christer Jönsson -- Values, interests, power and democracy at a time of crisis / Bernard Lategan -- The consequences of the Great Recession : hypotheses and scenarios / Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski.
• Sommario/riassunto: This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with ; the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious crises? Do they work? Is China a new trend setter? Do values matter? Are global democratic rules a possibility? These are some of the key questions addressed in the volume.