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

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: social coalitions between equilibria and crises -- 2 The emergence of an anti-bourgeois bloc in France -- 3 Abenomics and Japanese politics -- 4 Who turned their back on the SPD? Electoral disaffection with the German Social Democratic Party and the Hartz reforms -- 5 The transformation of the Swedish model since the 1990s: the political aspects of institutional change -- 6 The EU neoliberal policy regime and main political alternatives -- 7 Political reformation of social coalitions for elections -- 8 Developmental class coalitions: historical experiences and prospects -- 9 Authoritarian developmentalism, democratic neoliberalism, and economic growth in Korea: economic growth in different policy regimes -- 10 Class coalitions in a new democracy: the case of Brazil -- Index.