Politics in the New Hard Times (editor of compilation) David A. Lake (editor of compilation) Miles Kahler

Miles Kahler

ISBN 10: 0801478278 / ISBN 13: 9780801478277

Published by Cornell University Press 2013-04-15, Ithaca, 2013

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Politics in the New Hard Times (editor of compilation) David A. Lake (editor of compilation) In englischer Sprache. pages.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Politics in the New Hard Times (editor of compilation) David A. Lake (editor of compilation) Miles Kahler
• Publisher: Cornell University Press 2013-04-15, Ithaca
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0801478278
• ISBN 13: 9780801478277
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2013.
• Condition: gut
• Weight: 2000 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Miles Kahler is Rohr Professor of Pacific International Relations and Distinguished Professor of Political Science at the University of California, San Diego. He is the author of several books, including Leadership Selection in the Major Multilaterals, and editor most recently of Networked Politics: Agency, Power, and Governance, also from Cornell. David A. Lake is Jerri-Ann and Gary E. Jacobs Professor of Social Sciences and Distinguished Professor of Political Science, University of California, San Diego. He is the author of Hierarchy in International Relations, also from Cornell, and coauthor of World Politics: Interests, Interactions, and Institutions.