Financial Crisis Management and Democracy: Lessons from Europe and Latin America, de Souza Guilherme Bettina, Ghymers Christian, Griffith-Jones Stephany
Описание: A penetrating critique tracing how under-regulated trading between European and U.S. banks led to the 2008 financial crisis--with a prescription for preventing another meltdown
There have been numerous books examining the 2008 financial crisis from either a U.S. or European perspective. Tamim Bayoumi is the first to explain how the Euro crisis and U.S. housing crash were, in fact, parasitically intertwined.
Starting in the 1980s, Bayoumi outlines the cumulative policy errors that undermined the stability of both the European and U.S. financial sectors, highlighting the catalytic role played by European mega banks that exploited lax regulation to expand into the U.S. market and financed unsustainable bubbles on both continents. U.S. banks increasingly sold sub-par loans to under-regulated European and U.S. shadow banks and, when the bubbles burst, the losses whipsawed back to the core of the European banking system. A much-needed, fresh look at the origins of the crisis, Bayoumi's analysis concludes that policy makers are ignorant of what still needs to be done both to complete the cleanup and to prevent future crises.
Автор: Blake Charles H Название: Corruption and Democracy in Latin America ISBN: 0822960230 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780822960232 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11380.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: A groundbreaking national and regional study of corruption and its relation to democracy in Latin America. This book provides policy analysis and prescription through a wide-ranging methodological, empirical, and theoretical survey.
Автор: Walker Ignacio Название: Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair ISBN: 026801972X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780268019723 Издательство: Wiley EDC Рейтинг: Цена: 5146.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en Am?rica Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America.
Walker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses or alternatives to the crisis of oligarchic rule and the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. After reviewing some of the principal theories of democracy based on an analysis of the interactions of political, economic, and social factors, Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies—not structural determinants—that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy.
Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Global Economic Crisis.- Chapter 2: The Road from Prosperity into the Crisis: The Long Cycle of Post-War Economic, Social and Political Development.- Chapter 3: The Systemic Nature of the Global Crisis and Some Principles for Tackling it.- Part II: Regional Governance and Crisis Management in Europe and Latin America.- Chapter 4: EU's Double Democratic Deficit.- Chapter 5: European Union's Democratic Legitimacy after the MoUs: The Political Legacy of an Economic Crisis.- Chapter 6: Finance Capitalism and Democracy: The Case of the Financial Transactions Tax.- Chapter 7: Regional Governance and Macroeconomic Crisis Management in Latin America.- Part III: Impact of the Crisis in Europe and Latin America: National Level.- Chapter 8: Managing the Crisis in Greece: The Missing Link Between External Conditionality and Domestic Political Economy.- Chapter 9: The Crisis, its Management and Impact on Equity and Democracy in Portugal and Possible Consequences for the EU.- Chapter 10: The 2011 Crisis in Italy: A Story of Deep Rooted (and Still Unresolved) Economic and Political Weaknesses.- Chapter 11: Latin American Economic Crises and Populist Bids: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.- Chapter 12: The Fall of a Giant: Greed, Corruption and Abuse of Power Undermining Democracy in Brazil.- Chapter 13: Venezuela in Crisis - Governance, Equity and Democracy.- Part IV: Impact of the Crisis in Europe and Latin America: Regional Level.- Chapter 14: The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Europe: A Psychoanalytical Contribution.- Chapter 15: European Economic Governance and Rising Sovereignism.- Chapter 16: Eurozone Crisis Management and the Growth of Opposition to European Integration.- Chapter 17: A 'Pink Tide' Than a 'Turn to the Right': Populisms and Extremism in Latin America in the 21st Century.- Chapter 18: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Latin American Regionalism and Beyond.- Part V: Conclusions.- Chapter 19: Comparing the Crises in Europe and Latin America: Causes, Management and Consequences.- Part VI: Reform Proposals.- Chapter 20: Financial Instability, Climate Change and the 'Digital Colonization' of Europe: Some Unconventional Proposals.- Chapter 21: Promoting Investment in the European Union, Evaluating the Junker Plan.- Chapter 22: Proposal for a Pact for National Responsibility Through EU Solidarity within the Present EU Architecture.- Chapter 23: Proposals for Reforms and Democratization of the EMU.- Chapter 24: Operational Proposal for an EU-CELAC Strategic Alliance.- Chapter 25: Epilogue - Financial Crises, Regionalism and Domestic Adjustment.
An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's future
Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood repeated economic shocks and financial crises to become the hegemonic economic policy worldwide. Why has neoliberalism remained so resilient? What is the relationship between this resiliency and the backsliding of Western democracy? Can democracy survive an increasingly authoritarian neoliberal capitalism? Neoliberal Resilience answers these questions by bringing the developing world's recent history to the forefront of our thinking about democratic capitalism's future.
Looking at four decades of change in four countries once considered to be leading examples of effective neoliberal policy in Latin America and Eastern Europe--Argentina, Chile, Estonia, and Poland--Aldo Madariaga examines the domestic actors and institutions responsible for defending neoliberalism. Delving into neoliberalism's political power, Madariaga demonstrates that it is strongest in countries where traditional democratic principles have been slowly and purposefully weakened. He identifies three mechanisms through which coalitions of political, institutional, and financial forces have propagated neoliberalism's success: the privatization of state companies to create a supporting business class, the use of political institutions to block the representation of alternatives in congress, and the constitutionalization of key economic policies to shield them from partisan influence. Madariaga reflects on today's most pressing issues, including the influence of increasing austerity measures and the rise of populism.
A comparative exploration of political economics at the peripheries of global capitalism, Neoliberal Resilience investigates the tensions between neoliberalism's longevity and democracy's gradual decline.
Описание: This text looks at aspects of electoral history in Europe and Latin America, from the late 17th century to 1930, including electoral culture and traditions, electoral participation, electoral fraud, and the role of institutions, such as the Church.
Описание: The Culture of Elections in England: From the Glorious Revolution to the First World War, 1688-1914; F.O'Gorman - The Hispanic Revolutions: The Adoption of Modern Forms of Representation in Spain and America, 1808-1810; M.D.Demelas & F.X.Guerra - The Ballot, Land and Sovereignty: Cadiz and the Origins of Mexican Local Government, 1812-1820; A.Annino - The Electoral Reforms of 1861 in Ecuador and the Rise of a New Political Order; J.Maiguashca - Building Aspects of Democracy before Democracy: Electoral Practices in Mid-Nineteenth Century Chile; J.S.Valenzuela - Priests at the Hustings: Ecclesiastical Electioneering in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; K.T.Hoppen - Clerical Election Influence and Communal Solidarity: Catholic Political Culture in the German Empire, 1871-1914; M.L.Anderson - The Role of the Church, the Army and the Police in Colombian Elections, 1850-1930; M.Deas - Voting in Buenos Aires before 1912; P.Alonso - The Slow Development of an Electoral Culture: Fraud and the Passivity of the Electorate in Spain, 1875-1923; C.Darde
Описание: This innovative book seeks to explain what factors account for the consolidation of young democracies in over thirty countries in Latin America and Europe throughout the last quarter of the twentieth century.
Описание: This book provides a uniquely comprehensive explanation of the 2008-2009 global financial crisis and resulting scholarly research in the context of building an agenda for reform.
Автор: Annunziata Marco Название: The Economics of the Financial Crisis: Lessons and New Threats ISBN: 1349328626 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781349328628 Издательство: Springer Рейтинг: Цена: 20962.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Through the tools of economics, Annunziata`s vivid and gripping book shows how the global financial crisis was caused by a failure of leadership and common sense in which we all played a role. The insights of this clear and compelling analysis are essential for learning the right lessons from the crisis, and seeing new threats around the corner.
Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe brings together well-known comparative political scientists to define and explore the effects of authoritarian rule in post-authoritarian regimes in Southern Europe, the Southern Cone, and Brazil. Contributors to this volume use the research of historians, social psychologists, anthropologists, and sociologists to formulate their conceptualizations of legacies. Their analysis is also sensitive to the experiences of those who live with the consequences of authoritarian regimes. Each chapter offers a multi-case comparison either from within Latin America or between Latin America and Southern Europe.
Among the challenges for democracies in Latin America and Southern Europe are weakened political parties, politicized militaries, compromised judiciaries, corrupt police forces, and widespread citizen distrust. Utilizing a historical-sociological methodology that incorporates both the formal-legal and cultural dimensions of legacies, these essayists offer a fruitful examination of the political structures and institutions bequeathed by authoritarian regimes. They look at such core institutions as political parties, executives, legislatures, constitutions, and interest groups as well as symbolic-discursive dimensions related to individual and collective memories, citizenship, public perception, and trust. They also suggest policy directions to eradicate authoritarian legacies from democratic institutions and praxis.
Authoritarian Legacies and Democracy in Latin America and Southern Europe encourages comparativists to consider more systematically the many manifestations of authoritarian legacies as challenges to democracy. This volume will appeal to all students and scholars interested in comparative politics, Latin America, Southern Europe, and democratization.
Автор: McClintock Cynthia Название: Electoral Rules and Democracy in Latin America ISBN: 0190879769 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190879761 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6097.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
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During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to new parties, and assuring the public that the president will never have anything less than majority support. In a region in which undemocratic political parties were common and have often been dominated by caudillos, cautious naysayers have voiced concerns about the runoff process, arguing that a proliferation of new political parties vying for power is a sign of inferior democracy.
This book is the first rigorous assessment of the implications of runoff versus plurality rules throughout Latin America, and demonstrates that, in contrast to early scholarly skepticism about runoff, it has been positive for democracy in the region. Primarily through qualitative analysis for each country, the author argues that, indeed, an important advantage of runoff is the greater openness of the political arena to new parties--at the same time that measures can be taken to inhibit party proliferation. In this context, it is also the first volume to address whether or not a runoff rule with a reduced threshold (for example, 40% with a 10-point lead) is a felicitous compromise between majority runoff and plurality. The book considers the potential for the superiority of runoff to travel beyond Latin America--in particular, and rather provocatively, to the United States.
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