"The Global Financial Crisis and the following period of 'secular stagnation' have raised questions about the state of modern economics and macroeconomics in particular. This has had repercussions for social sciences that deal with economic issues. In particular in the fields of International...

Contents -- Contributors -- Chapter 1. Coping with Crisis: An Introduction / Nancy Bermeo and Jonas Pontusson -- Part I. International Origins, Organizations, and Constraints -- Chapter 2. Modern Capitalism and the Advanced Nation State: Understanding the Causes of the Crisis / Torben Iversen...

This paper explores temporal variation in partisan effects on social spending growth in OECD countries over the period 1971-2002. We argue that partisan effects are jointly conditioned by globalization and the mobilizational capacity of organized labour. We present three main empirical findings....