Financial Crisis Management and Democracy

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Part I: Global Economic Crisis.- Chapter 2: The Road from Prosperity into the Crisis: The Long Cycle of Post-War Economic, Social and Political Development.- Chapter 3: The Systemic Nature of the Global Crisis and Some Principles for Tackling it.- Part II: Regional Governance and Crisis Management in Europe and Latin America.- Chapter 4: EU's Double Democratic Deficit.- Chapter 5: European Union's Democratic Legitimacy after the MoUs: The Political Legacy of an Economic Crisis.- Chapter 6: Finance Capitalism and Democracy: The Case of the Financial Transactions Tax.- Chapter 7: Regional Governance and Macroeconomic Crisis Management in Latin America.- Part III: Impact of the Crisis in Europe and Latin America: National Level.- Chapter 8: Managing the Crisis in Greece: The Missing Link Between External Conditionality and Domestic Political Economy.- Chapter 9: The Crisis, its Management and Impact on Equity and Democracy in Portugal and Possible Consequencesfor the EU.- Chapter 10: The 2011 Crisis in Italy: A Story of Deep Rooted (and Still Unresolved) Economic and Political Weaknesses.- Chapter 11: Latin American Economic Crises and Populist Bids: Argentina, Brazil and Mexico.- Chapter 12: The Fall of a Giant: Greed, Corruption and Abuse of Power Undermining Democracy in Brazil.- Chapter 13: Venezuela in Crisis - Governance, Equity and Democracy.- Part IV: Impact of the Crisis in Europe and Latin America: Regional Level.- Chapter 14: The Rise of Right-wing Populism in Europe: A Psychoanalytical Contribution.- Chapter 15: European Economic Governance and Rising Sovereignism.- Chapter 16: Eurozone Crisis Management and the Growth of Opposition to European Integration.- Chapter 17: A 'Pink Tide' Than a 'Turn to the Right': Populisms and Extremism in Latin America in the 21st Century.- Chapter 18: The Impact of the Global Financial Crisis on Latin American Regionalism and Beyond.- Part V: Conclusions.- Chapter 19: Comparing the Crises in Europe

Bettina De Souza Guilherme , is an official at the European Parliament (Brussels, Belgium), working for the Committee of Economic and Monetary Affairs, She studied political science and economics at the University of Vienna. From 2014 to 2018 she worked as a Professora Colaboradora at the University of Sao Paulo. In 2016, she and Christian Ghymers founded and co-coordinated the Jean Monnet Network for Crisis-Equity-Democracy for Europe and Latin America.

Christian Ghymers is Professor at ICHEC - Brussels Management School (Belgium). He holds the academic university accreditation and tenure in international economics from Catholic University of Louvain-la-Neuve UCL/ICHEC (Belgium). He is President of Institute for Relations between the EU and Latin American and the Caribbean (IRELAC) and Vice-President of the RTI (Triffin Foundation) at Catholic University of Louvain.

Stephany Griffith-Jones is Financial Markets Director of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University (US), Emeritus Professorial Fellow at Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex University and Senior associate fellow at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI), London University (UK). She has published widely (including over 25 books) and holds a PhD from Cambridge University and a degree in Economics from the University of Chile.

Andrea Ribeiro Hoffmann is Professor of International Relations at the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC), Brazil. She has a Ph.D. from the University of Tübingen, Germany, and has been a visiting scholar at the London School of Economics (UK), University of Erfurt and the Free University of Berlin (Germany).