1st Edition

Growth, Crisis, Democracy The Political Economy of Social Coalitions and Policy Regime Change

Edited By Hideko Magara, Bruno Amable Copyright 2017
254 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

264 Pages 26 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Since the global financial crisis of 2008, advanced economies have been making various efforts to overcome the economic impasse. While the contrast between the countries that have escaped from the crisis relatively quickly and those still suffering from serious problems is becoming clearer, a new economic crisis stemming from newly emerging economies has again impacted advanced economies. In... Read more
  1. Introduction: Social Coalitions between Equilibria and Crises (Hideko Magara)
  2. The emergence of an anti-bourgeois bloc in France (Bruno Amable & Stefano Palombarini)
  3. Abenomics and Japanese Politics (Masanobu Ido)
  4. Who turned their back on the SPD? Electoral disaffection with the German Social Democratic Party and the Hartz reforms (Baptiste Françon)
  5. The Transformation of the Swedish Model since the 1990s: The Political Aspects of Institutional Change (Nanako Fujita )
  6. The EU neoliberal policy regime and main political alternatives (Alberto Martinelli)
  7. Political Reformation of Social Coalitions for Elections (Yuki Yanai)
  8. Developmental class coalitions: historical experiences and prospects (Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Marcus Ianoni
  9. Authoritarian Developmentalism, Democratic Neo-liberalism, and Economic Growth in Korea: Economic Growth in Different Policy Regimes (Hyug Baeg Im)
  10. Class coalitions in new and consolidated democracies: the case of Brazil (Luiz Carlos Bresser-Pereira and Marcus Ianon

Biography

Hideko Magara is Professor of Political Science at Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan.

Bruno Amable is Professor of Economics at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne