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The Politics of Recession
Author | : Maurice Mullard |
Publsiher | : Edward Elgar Publishing |
Total Pages | : 265 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781781001127 |
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This timely book utilizes the tools of politics, economics and public policy to explore the causes of the recent global financial crisis, which, the author argues, can be explained as the absence of a public interest perspective in policy making. Maurice Mullard points out that recessions are not collective shared experiences. Recessions create winners and losers. Furthermore, recessions are not an external event but reflect the outcomes of the policy process. The author looks beyond economic explanations for the economic crisis, and instead points towards a structural explanation. He explores the concept of social structures, the effects of the relationships between power and influence, and the role of ideology and income inequalities as contributory factors. The commitment to deregulated financial markets created an over the counter derivatives market worth some $640 trillion dollars compared to a global GDP worth $65 trillion dollars. The growth of derivatives markets, the role of credit rating agencies, major shifts in policy making and growing income inequalities are described as major factors explaining the present economic recession. The absence of a public interest perspective, the breakdown of trust in institutions, policy makers' dependence on financial contributions, the housing bubble, and the increased concentration of income have distorted the democratic process. Thought provoking and stimulating, this book will provide a fascinating study for students and academics with an interest in politics, economics, political economy and public policy.
The Politics of Recession
Author | : R. W. Johnson,Richard William Johnson |
Publsiher | : Palgrave |
Total Pages | : 275 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Depressions |
ISBN | : 0333367871 |
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Politics in the New Hard Times
Author | : Miles Kahler,David A. Lake |
Publsiher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 329 |
Release | : 2013-04-15 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780801467622 |
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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.
Framing the Global Economic Downturn
Author | : Paul 't Hart,Karen Tindall |
Publsiher | : ANU E Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781921666056 |
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The global economic downturn that followed the collapse of major US financial institutions is no doubt the most significant crisis of our times. Its effects on corporate and governmental balance sheets have been devastating, as have been its impacts on the employment and well being of tens of millions of citizens. It continues to pose major challenges to national policymakers and institutions around the world. Managing public uncertainty and anxiety is vital in coping with financial crises. This requires not just prompt action but, most of all, persuasive communication by government leaders. At the same time, the very occurrence of such crises raises acute questions about the effectiveness and robustness of current government policies and institutions. With the stakes being so high, defining and interpreting what is going on, how and why it happened, and what ought to be done now become key questions in the political and policy struggles that crises invariably unleash. In this volume, we study how heads of government, finance ministers and national bank governors in eight countries as well as the EU engage in such 'framing contests', and how their attempts to interpret the cascading events of the economic downturn were publicly received. Using systematic content analysis of speeches and media coverage, this volume offers a unique comparative assessment of public leadership in times of crisis.
The Politics of Inflation and Economic Stagnation
Author | : Leon Lindberg,Charles S. Maier |
Publsiher | : Brookings Institution Press |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 1985-06-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0815723679 |
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The inflation of the 1970s represented the greatest peacetime disruption of the Western economies since the Depression. Even as inflation receded, the recession in its wake brought more joblessness than at any time since the 1930s. The governments of industrialized nations found that the economic policies they had developed since World War II no longer assured price stability or high employment. What are the lessons of over a decade of economic difficulty? In this conference volume, which focuses on aspects of the crisis that economists often presuppose to be beyond control, the authors analyze the political and social underpinning of inflation and recession. Part 1 places the economic problems of the 1970s in the historical context of postwar development and then compares economic and political science analyses of inflation. Part 2 examines how rivalries between social groups affect inflationary processes. One chapter draws on the history of Latin American inflation to suggest the conflicts in play. Two others weigh the role of labor and industry in the formation of economic policy. And another shows how rivalry between countries, like rivalry between classes at home, permitted inflation to rise. The chapters in part 3 contest the claim that big government or big labor causes inflation. Two studies emphasize that a high degree of public expenditure does not itself lead to inflation. Further contributions explore the role of central banks and subject such concepts as the political business cycle to critical analysis. Part 4 comprises case studies about macroeconomic policymaking in four nations: Italy, Germany, Japan, and Sweden. The studies reveal what institutional attributes rendered those countries resistant to inflation or vulnerable to economic setback. In the last part, the editors pull together the findings and lay out the contemporary political feasibility of alternative approaches to macroeconomic management.
The Global Recession and China s Political Economy
Author | : D. Yang |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 267 |
Release | : 2012-04-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781137070463 |
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In this volume, some of the leading scholars on China's development examine China's responses to the global financial crisis and their implications for China's economy, society, and the international balances of power.
Mass Politics in Tough Times
Author | : Nancy Bermeo,Larry Bartels |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780199357505 |
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In Mass Politics in Tough Times, the eminent political scientists Larry Bartels and Nancy Bermeo have gathered a group of leading scholars to analyze the political responses to the Great Recession in the US, Western Europe, and East-Central Europe.
Politics Policy and the European Recession
Author | : Andrew Cox |
Publsiher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1982-06-18 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9781349057641 |
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