Politics in the New Hard Times -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Preface -- Introduction: Anatomy of Crisis: The Great Recession and Political Change -- Part I: Crises and Politics: Is This Time Different? -- 1. Economic Crisis and Global Governance:The Stability of a Globalized World -- 2. Politics in Hard Times Revisited: The 2008-9 Financial Crisis in Emerging Markets -- 3. Partisan Financial Cycles -- 4. The Politics of Hard Times: Fiscal Policy and the Endogeneity of Economic Recessions -- Part II: Interests, Coalitions, and Consequences -- 5. The Political Origins of Our Economic Discontents: Contemporary Adjustment Problems in Historical Perspective -- 6. Puzzles from the First Globalization -- 7. Portfolio Politics in the New Hard Times: Crises, Coalitions, and Shareholders in the United States and Germany -- 8. Coalition of Losers: Why Agricultural Protectionism Has Survived during the Great Recession -- 9. Crafting Trade Strategy in the Great Recession: The Obama Administration and the Changing Political Economy of the United States -- 10. Worlds in Collision: Uncertainty and Risk in Hard Times -- Afterword: Yet More Hard Times? : Reflections on the Great Recession in the Frame of Earlier Hard Times -- References -- About the Contributors -- Index.