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Inequality and Prosperity

Social Europe Vs. Liberal America

By: Jonas Pontusson

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Social Europe Vs. Liberal America

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Inequality and Prosperity

Social Europe Vs. Liberal America

By: Jonas Pontusson

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Social Europe Vs. Liberal America

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Cornell University Press

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0801443512

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Reinterpreting Social Democracy

A History of Stability in the British Labour Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party

By: Jonas Hinnfors

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Reinterpreting Social Democracy

A History of Stability in the British Labour Party and Swedish Social Democratic Party

By: Jonas Hinnfors

This thought-provoking book challenges the conventional wisdom that social democracy was market-hostile forty years ago, and is market-friendly today. In this study Hinnfors provides detailed accounts of the British Labour Party and the Swedish Social Democratic Party and their shifting approaches to the liberal market economy during the period 1965-2002. Through this analysis he draws original conclusions about the parties' capacity to be flexible.

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Manchester University Press

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0719073626

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9780719073625

Raise the Debt

How Developing Countries Choose Their Creditors

By: Jonas B. Bunte

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Raise the Debt

How Developing Countries Choose Their Creditors

By: Jonas B. Bunte

Credit is the lifeblood of capitalism and development. Brazil, Russia, India, and China-also called BRICs-have become important creditors to developing countries. However, how will their loans affect economic development and democracy in recipient countries? We need to understand why governments accept Chinese over Western loan offers before we can predict their likely consequences. In Raise the Debt, Jonas B. Bunte systematically explains how governments choose among competing loan offers. Using statistical analyses and extensive interview data, he shows that the strings attached to loans vary across creditors. Consequently, one domestic interest group may benefit from Chinese credit but not U.S. loans, while the opposite is the case for other groups. Bunte provides evidence that governments cater to whichever domestic interest group is politically dominant when deciding between competing loan offers. Combining a comparative politics approach with international political economy methods, Raise the Debt shows how a deeper understanding of governments' borrowing decisions is critical for gaining insights into how these loans could impact growth and democracy on a global scale.

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Oxford University Press

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0190866195

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Diminishing Returns

The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation

By: Lucio Baccaro,Mark Blyth,Jonas Pontusson

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Diminishing Returns

The New Politics of Growth and Stagnation

By: Lucio Baccaro,Mark Blyth,Jonas Pontusson

The Global Financial Crisis and the following period of 'secular stagnation' have raised questions about the state of modern economics and macroeconomics in particular. This has had repercussions for social sciences that deal with economic issues. In particular in the fields of International Political Economy (IPE) and Comparative Political Economy (CPE) there is rising interest in non-mainstream macroeconomic theories (Blyth and Matthijs 2017, Baccaro and Pontussen 2016). In CPE there is a recognition that the field has in the past decades increasingly shifted to institutional and microeconomic questions and disregarded Keynesian considerations of macroeconomic instability and problems of fallacies of composition (Schwartz and Tranoy 2019). The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of post-Keynesian economics (PKE) as a non-mainstream macroeconomic theory"--

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019760787X

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Coping with Crisis

Government Reactions to the Great Recession

By: Nancy Bermeo,Jonas Pontusson

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Coping with Crisis

Government Reactions to the Great Recession

By: Nancy Bermeo,Jonas Pontusson

The financial crisis that erupted on Wall Street in 2008 quickly cascaded throughout much of the advanced industrial world. Facing the specter of another Great Depression, policymakers across the globe responded in sharply different ways to avert an economic collapse. Why did the response to the crisis—and its impact on individual countries—vary so greatly among interdependent economies? How did political factors like public opinion and domestic interest groups shape policymaking in this moment of economic distress? Coping with Crisis offers a rigorous analysis of the choices societies made as a devastating global economic crisis unfolded. With an ambitiously broad range of inquiry, Coping with Crisis examines the interaction between international and domestic politics to shed new light on the inner workings of democratic politics. The volume opens with an engaging overview of the global crisis and the role played by international bodies like the G-20 and the WTO. In his survey of international initiatives in response to the recession, Eric Helleiner emphasizes the limits of multilateral crisis management, finding that domestic pressures were more important in reorienting fiscal policy. He also argues that unilateral decisions by national governments to hold large dollar reserves played the key role in preventing a dollar crisis, which would have considerably worsened the downturn. David R. Cameron discusses the fiscal responses of the European Union and its member states. He suggests that a profound coordination problem involving fiscal and economic policy impeded the E.U.'s ability to respond in a timely and effective manner. The volume also features several case studies and country comparisons. Nolan McCarty assesses the performance of the American political system during the crisis. He argues that the downturn did little to dampen elite polarization in the U.S.; divisions within the Democratic Party—as well as the influence of the financial sector—narrowed the range of policy options available to fight the crisis. Ben W. Ansell examines how fluctuations in housing prices in 30 developed countries affected the policy preferences of both citizens and political parties. His evidence shows that as housing prices increased, homeowners expressed preferences for both lower taxes and a smaller safety net. As more citizens supplement their day-to-day income with assets like stocks and housing, Ansell's research reveals a potentially significant trend in the formation of public opinion. Five years on, the prospects for a prolonged slump in economic activity remain high, and the policy choices going forward are contentious. But the policy changes made between 2007 and 2010 will likely constrain any new initiatives in the future. Coping with Crisis offers unmatched analysis of the decisions made in the developed world during this critical period. It is an essential read for scholars of comparative politics and anyone interested in a comprehensive account of the new international politics of austerity.

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Russell Sage Foundation

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0871540762

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Inequality and Prosperity

Inequality and Prosperity

Inequality and Prosperity

Inequality and Prosperity

Reinterpreting Social Democracy

Reinterpreting Social Democracy

Raise the Debt

Raise the Debt

Diminishing Returns

Diminishing Returns

Coping with Crisis

Coping with Crisis

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