Political data in 2008
The global economic crisis kept most governments predictably busy in 2008. Their most urgent task was to stabilise and, if possible, recapitalise their respective banking sectors. This was made easier in virtually every case by the (possibly surprising, but in some ways understandable) reluctance of...
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ftunivsussex:oai:sro.sussex.ac.uk:27824 2023-07-30T04:04:24+02:00 Political data in 2008 Bale, Tim van Biezen, Ingrid 2009-12 http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/27824/ https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.01895.x unknown Springer Verlag Bale, Tim and van Biezen, Ingrid (2009) Political data in 2008. European Journal of Political Research, 48 (7-8). pp. 859-873. ISSN 0304-4130 JA Political science (General) Article PeerReviewed 2009 ftunivsussex https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-6765.2009.01895.x 2023-07-11T20:19:25Z The global economic crisis kept most governments predictably busy in 2008. Their most urgent task was to stabilise and, if possible, recapitalise their respective banking sectors. This was made easier in virtually every case by the (possibly surprising, but in some ways understandable) reluctance of opposition parties, once it became clear just how serious things were, to criticise those in power either for contributing to the emergency in the first place or for the quality of their response. Iceland, of course, was a special case: there it was obvious that the main government party, by freeing up the financial sector and then failing to regulate it properly, was to blame; moreover, it was manifestly incapable of doing much more than looking on as the country’s wealth bled away amid a welter of arguably hypocritical international condemnation. The Republicans in the United States, too, clearly suffered an electoral backlash at the hands of voters feeling the consequences of a financial and economic meltdown which the Bush Administration arguably did less than it might have done to mitigate. Article in Journal/Newspaper Iceland University of Sussex: Sussex Research Online European Journal of Political Research 48 7-8 859 873 |
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The global economic crisis kept most governments predictably busy in 2008. Their most urgent task was to stabilise and, if possible, recapitalise their respective banking sectors. This was made easier in virtually every case by the (possibly surprising, but in some ways understandable) reluctance of opposition parties, once it became clear just how serious things were, to criticise those in power either for contributing to the emergency in the first place or for the quality of their response. Iceland, of course, was a special case: there it was obvious that the main government party, by freeing up the financial sector and then failing to regulate it properly, was to blame; moreover, it was manifestly incapable of doing much more than looking on as the country’s wealth bled away amid a welter of arguably hypocritical international condemnation. The Republicans in the United States, too, clearly suffered an electoral backlash at the hands of voters feeling the consequences of a financial and economic meltdown which the Bush Administration arguably did less than it might have done to mitigate. |
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