Political Science Economic Conditions
After '08
Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
- Publisher
- UBC Press
- Initial publish date
- Oct 2015
- Category
- Economic Conditions, Economic Conditions, Social Policy
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Hardback
- ISBN
- 9780774829632
- Publish Date
- Oct 2015
- List Price
- $65.00
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9780774829663
- Publish Date
- Aug 2016
- List Price
- $64.99
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Description
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? This volume explores how international organizations and nation states in Europe, Asia, Africa, Latin America, and North America responded to the recession. Contributors examine whether social policy followed a similar trajectory across countries and regions or whether their diverse national experiences produced equally diverse solutions.
About the authors
Stephen McBride, Professor and Director of the Centre for Global Political Economy, specializes in political economy, and comparative public policy, and Canadian politics. He is the author of Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-conservatism in Canada (1992) which won the 1994 Smiley prize, and Paradigm Shift: Globalization and The Canadian State (2001; 2nd edition 2005). He is the co-author of Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order (1993; 2nd edition 1997) and several co-edited volumes: Global Turbulence: Social Activists’ and State Responses to Globalization (2003), Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy (2002), Globalization and its Discontents (2000), and Power in a Global Era (2000).
Stephen McBride is a professor in the Department of Political Science and Canada Research Chair in public policy and globalization at McMaster University.
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RIANNE MAHON is an Associate Professor in the School of Public Policy at Carleton University.
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