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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

van Beek, Ursula J. Prof. Dr., Editor.

Wnuk-Lipinski, Edmund Prof. Dr., Editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Financial crisis.

democracy.

political processes.

Local Subjects:

Financial crisis.

democracy.

political processes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (244 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leverkusen Verlag Barbara Budrich 2011

Language Note:

English

Biography/History:

Ursula J. van Beek, Professor, (History) Department of Political Science, Stellenbosch University, Stellenbosch, South Africa Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski, Professor (Sociology), Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-SA

ISBN:

9783866495807

3866495803

Publisher Number:

10.3224/86649453

Access Restriction:

Unrestricted online access