Coping with Crisis: Government Reactions to the Great Recession

Contents

Contents Contributorsvii Chapter 1  Coping with Crisis: An Introduction 1 Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson part i  international origins, organizations, and constraints33 Chapter 2  Modern Capitalism and the Advanced Nation State: Understanding the Causes of the Crisis 35 Torben Iversen and David Soskice Chapter 3  Multilateralism Reborn? International Cooperation and the Global Financial Crisis 65 Eric Helleiner Chapter 4  European Fiscal Responses to the Great Recession 91 David R. Cameron Chapter 5 Policymaking in Hard Times: French and German Responses to the Eurozone Crisis 130 Waltraud Schelkle Chapter 6 The Sorrows of Young Euro: The Sovereign Debt Crises of Ireland and Southern Europe 162 Klaus Armingeon and Lucio Baccaro vi      Contents part ii cases and comparisons199 Chapter 7 The Politics of the Pop: The U.S. Response to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession 201 Nolan McCarty Chapter 8 Politics and Policies in Two Economic Crises: The Nordic Countries  233 Johannes Lindvall Chapter 9 The Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Regime Change in Japan 261 Yves Tiberghien Chapter 10 The Liberal Model in (the) Crisis: Continuity and Change in Great Britain and Ireland 287 Lucy Barnes and Anne Wren part iii cross-national consequences 325 Chapter 11  Crisis as Political Opportunity? Partisan Politics, Housing Cycles, and the Credit Crisis 327 Ben W. Ansell Chapter 12 West European Welfare States in Times of Crisis 361 David Rueda Index399 ...