Politics In The New Hard Times

Author : Peter Alexis Gourevitch
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801494369
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in Hard Times written by Peter Alexis Gourevitch and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1986 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Politics in Hard Times, Peter Gourevitch explores the common political factors that shape economic policy choices. He focuses on three periods of economic crisis--1873-1896, 1929-1949, and 1971 to the present--and compares policy choices made in Britain, France, Germany, Sweden, and the United States.

Author : Xavier Coller
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030702421
Total Pages : 419 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politicians in Hard Times written by Xavier Coller and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-04-27 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses the Spanish parliamentary elites in a comparative perspective within southern Europe. What has been the impact of the Great Recession on the configuration of parliaments and the diversity of legislators? Have new parties delivered better representation of citizens in terms of demographics (gender, age, social class), ideology or political attitudes and beliefs? This original research is based on a 2018 survey on members of two national chambers and 17 regional parliaments. Comparing these data with those of a simultaneous survey carried out on Spanish citizens and with data from previous research a decade ago, the book examines the changes that have occurred in representation during the course of the Great Recession and provides evidence of the growing distance between citizens and parliamentary elites. Additionally, using data from the Comparative Candidates Survey, the book compares the ideological congruence between citizens and their representatives in Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece.

Author : Miles Kahler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467624
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in the New Hard Times written by Miles Kahler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Benjamin Smith
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801461863
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Times in the Lands of Plenty written by Benjamin Smith and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: That natural resources can be a curse as well as a blessing is almost a truism in political analysis. In many late-developing countries, the "resource curse" theory predicts, the exploitation of valuable resources will not result in stable, prosperous states but rather in their opposite. Petroleum deposits, for example, may generate so much income that rulers will have little need to establish efficient, tax-extracting bureaucracies, leading to shallow, poorly functioning administrations that remain at the mercy of the world market for oil. Alternatively, resources may be geographically concentrated, thereby intensifying regional, ethnic, or other divisive tensions. In Hard Times in the Land of Plenty, Benjamin Smith deciphers the paradox of the resource curse and questions its inevitability through an innovative comparison of the experiences of Iran and Indonesia. These two populous, oil-rich countries saw profoundly different changes in their fortunes in the period 1960–1980. Focusing on the roles of state actors and organized opposition in using oil revenues, Smith finds that the effects of oil wealth on politics and on regime durability vary according to the circumstances under which oil exports became a major part of a country's economy. The presence of natural resources is, he argues, a political opportunity rather than simply a structural variable. Drawing on extensive primary research in Iran and Indonesia and quantitative research on nineteen other oil-rich developing countries, Smith challenges us to reconsider resource wealth in late-developing countries, not as a simple curse or blessing, but instead as a tremendously flexible source of both political resources and potential complications.

Author : Sara Wallace Goodman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009076981
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Citizenship in Hard Times written by Sara Wallace Goodman and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-20 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do citizens do in response to threats to democracy? This book examines the mass politics of civic obligation in the US, UK, and Germany. Exploring threats like foreign interference in elections and polarization, Sara Wallace Goodman shows that citizens respond to threats to democracy as partisans, interpreting civic obligation through a partisan lens that is shaped by their country's political institutions. This divided, partisan citizenship makes democratic problems worse by eroding the national unity required for democratic stability. Employing novel survey experiments in a cross-national research design, Citizenship in Hard Times presents the first comprehensive and comparative analysis of citizenship norms in the face of democratic threat. In showing partisan citizens are not a reliable bulwark against democratic backsliding, Goodman identifies a key vulnerability in the mass politics of democratic order. In times of democratic crisis, defenders of democracy must work to fortify the shared foundations of democratic citizenship.

Author : Miles Kahler
Publisher : Cornell University Press
ISBN 13 : 0801467632
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics in the New Hard Times written by Miles Kahler and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Contributors: Suzanne Berger, MIT; J. Lawrence Broz, University of California, San Diego; Peter Cowhey, University of California, San Diego; Peter A. Gourevitch, University of California, San Diego; Stephan Haggard, University of California, San Diego; Peter A. Hall, Harvard University; Miles Kahler, University of California, San Diego; Peter J. Katzenstein, Cornell University; Ikuo Kume, Waseda University; David A. Lake, University of California, San Diego; Megumi Naoi, University of California, San Diego; Stephen C. Nelson, Northwestern University; Pablo Pinto, Columbia University; James Shinn, Princeton University

Author : Thomas Edward Flores
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107132134
Total Pages : 299 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Elections in Hard Times written by Thomas Edward Flores and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-09 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demonstrates why elections fail to promote democracy when countries lack democratic experience and are held during civil conflict.

Author : Matt Saincome
Publisher : Mariner Books
ISBN 13 : 0358022371
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Hard Times written by Matt Saincome and published by Mariner Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sharp, comedic send-up of punk and hardcore culture, from the creators of the popular and critically-lauded satire site The Hard Times.net.

Author : Megan Boler
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262514893
Total Pages : 475 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Digital Media and Democracy written by Megan Boler and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 475 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors of this text discuss broad questions of media and politics, offer nuanced analyses of change in journalism, and undertake detailed examinations of the use of web-based media in shaping political and social movements. The chapters include not only essays but also interviews with journalists and media activists.

Author : Charles Dickens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Times written by Charles Dickens and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: