Contents
Contributors
Chapter 1. Coping with Crisis: An Introduction / Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson
Part I. International Origins, Organizations, and Constraints
Chapter 2. Modern Capitalism and the Advanced Nation State: Understanding the Causes of the Crisis / Torben Iversen and David Soskice
Chapter 3. Multilateralism Reborn? : International Cooperation and the Global Financial Crisis / Eric Helleiner
Chapter 4. European Fiscal Responses to the Great Recession / David R. Cameron
Chapter 5. Policymaking in Hard Times: French and German Responses to the Eurozone Crisis / Waltraud Schelkle
Chapter 6. The Sorrows of Young Euro: The Sovereign Debt Crises of Ireland and Southern Europe / Klaus Armingeon and Lucio Baccaro
Part II. Cases and Comparisons
Chapter 7. The Politics of the Pop: The U.S. Response to the Financial Crisis and the Great Recession / Nolan McCarty
Chapter 8. Politics and Policies in Two Economic Crises: The Nordic Countries / Johannes Lindvall
Chapter 9. The Global Economic Crisis and the Politics of Regime Change in Japan / Yves Tiberghien
Chapter 10. The Liberal Model in (the) Crisis: Continuity and Change in Great Britain and Ireland / Lucy Barnes and Anne Wren
Part III. Cross-National Consequences
Chapter 11. Crisis as Political Opportunity? : Partisan Politics, Housing Cycles, and the Credit Crisis / Ben W. Ansell
Chapter 12. West European Welfare States in Times of Crisis / David Rueda
Index