Although there is little doubt that banks between the wars were the victims of deflation, deflation alone cannot explain the cross-national distribution of banking crisis. In addition, one must take into consideration cross-country variations in banking structures -- the degree to which banks...

While the strategies of political actors and institutions have been largely analyzed with reference to cases of democratic breakdown in inter-war Europe and other contexts, democratic survival has often been viewed as a consequence of socio-economic and cultural "preconditions". The analysis of...