The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to refocus scholarly attention on the
politics of crisis. Crises that abruptly upend political and economic relations are important …

Britain's BREXIT vote and Trump's victory in the US presidential elections sent shockwaves
through the Western liberal establishment, including academia. Both events suggest yet …

This special issue argues that to make sense of the increased prominence of central banks
after the 2008 financial crisis and COVID-19 pandemic requires interrogating the sources of …

Why are some countries governed much more poorly than one might expect judging by their
degree of socio-economic development? In particular, why are most countries of post-Soviet …

Financial upheaval and unconventional monetary policies have made money a salient
political issue. This provides a rare opportunity to study the under-appreciated role of …

Abstract The Great Financial Crisis ushered unorthodox financial policies that would have
been unfathomable before 2008. Perhaps unexpectedly, some of the boldest measures on …

The expanding literature on growth regimes has recently been applied to explain the growth
of populist movements across the OECD. Such applications posit a stand-off between …

This study examines the effect of legal central bank independence on inflation in developing
countries. In spite of the policy consensus suggesting that central bank independence is an …

While the spread of neoliberal ideas through networks has attracted much attention
worldwide, the ideational content of the recent counter-waves to liberal democracy has still …

An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and
what this could mean for democracy's future Since the 1980s, neoliberalism has withstood …