Democracy under stress: the global crisis and beyond
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.