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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kahler, Miles, 1949-

Lake, David A., 1956-

Series:

Cornell studies in political economy.

Cornell studies in political economy

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009--Political aspects.

Global Financial Crisis, 2008-2009.

International economic relations--Political aspects.

International economic relations.

World politics--2005-2015.

World politics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

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 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

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 / 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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780801467622

0801467624

9781322503899

1322503893

9780801467639

0801467632

OCLC:

835981953