Democracy under stress : : The global crisis and beyond / / Ursula J. van Beek, Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski

• HerausgeberIn: van Beek, Ursula J. Prof. Dr.; Wnuk-Lipinski, Edmund Prof. Dr.
• Year of Publication: 2011
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (244 pages) :; illustrations

This book focuses on the global financial crisis of 2008-2009 and its implications for democracy. Why and how did the crisis come about? Are there any instructive lessons to be drawn from comparisons with the Great Depression of the 1930s? What are the democratic response mechanisms to cope with serious crises? Do they work? Is China a new trend setter? Do values matter? Are global democratic rules a possibility? These are some of the key questions addressed in the volume.

Table of Contents

The crisis that shook the world / Ursula J. van Beek -- Collapse : the story of the international financial crisis, its causes and policy consequences / Stan du Plessis -- The impact of the Great Depression on democracy / Dirk Berg-Schlosser -- The crisis : possible impacts on economic systems and policy / Philip Mohr -- Democracy, error correction and the global economy / Laurence Whitehead -- The model of liberal democracy and varieties of capitalism / Ursula Hoffmann-Lange -- China and the crisis in historical perspective / Ursula van Beek -- A new bi-polarisation? / Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski -- Chinese crisis management : consolidated authoritarian capitalism as a new brand of political regime? / Han Sang-Jin and Lü Peng -- The Great Recession and its potential impact on popular culture in liberal democracies / Pierre du Toit -- Global solutions? : searching for democratic approaches to a new world order / Christer Jönsson -- Values, interests, power and democracy at a time of crisis / Bernard Lategan -- The consequences of the Great Recession : hypotheses and scenarios / Edmund Wnuk-Lipinski.