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Record Nr.

UNINA9910779539103321

Titolo

Politics in the new hard times [[electronic resource] ] : the great recession in comparative perspective / / edited by Miles Kahler and David A. Lake

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Ithaca, : Cornell University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8014-6762-4

1-322-50389-3

0-8014-6763-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (329 p.)

Collana

Cornell studies in political economy

Altri autori (Persone)

KahlerMiles <1949->

LakeDavid A. <1956->

Disciplina

330.9/0511

Soggetti

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009 - Political aspects

International economic relations - Political aspects

World politics - 2005-2015

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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 / Lawrence Broz -- The politics of hard times : fiscal policy and the endogeneity of economic recessions / Pablo 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 U.S. and Germany / James Shinn -- Coalition of losers : why agricultural protectionism survives 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 Nelson -- Yet more hard times? : reflections on



the great recession in the frame of earlier hard times / Peter Gourevitch.

Sommario/riassunto

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 1930's. 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. Contributors: Suzanne Berger, MIT; J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego; Peter Cowhey, University of California, San Diego; Peter A. Gourevitch, University of California, San Diego; Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego; Peter A. Hall, Harvard University; Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego; Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University; Ikuo Kume, Waseda University; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego; Stephen C. Nelson, Northwestern University; Pablo Pinto, Columbia University; James Shinn, Princeton University