Does the global economic crisis negatively impact the prospects of democratization around the world? This is a time … indexes of democracy, and different indicators of democracy, while controlling for region of the world, ethnic … democratization around the world. The intellectual interest for this effect is to understand if new democracies can survive the test …

Legacy of an Economic Crisis -- Chapter 6: Finance Capitalism and Democracy: The Case of the Financial Transactions Tax … Conditionality and Domestic Political Economy -- Chapter 9: The Crisis, its Management and Impact on Equity and Democracy in Portugal … -- Chapter 12: The Fall of a Giant: Greed, Corruption and Abuse of Power Undermining Democracy in Brazil -- Chapter 13: Venezuela …

Editors' introduction -- Financial crises, globalization and the new world order -- Financial crises and government … regulations / Gary Moon Cheung Shiu and Kin-Ming Wong -- China and the world economic order / Wai Kee Yuen and Joe Fuk Kin Wong …, environmental protection and sustainable development / Rita Yi Man Li -- Towards a better world though cooperation -- Reducing world …

Bleakonomics is a short and darkly humorous guide to the three great crises plaguing today's world: environmental …