The Wealth Effect; How the Great Expectations of the Middle Class Have Changed the Politics of Banking Crises (2019)

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The Wealth Effect The politics of major banking crises have been transformed since the nineteenth century. Analysing extensive historical and contemporary evidence, Chwieroth and Walter demonstrate that the rising wealth of the middle class has generated ?reat expectations??among voters that the government is responsible for the protection of this wealth. Crisis policy interventions have become more extensive and costly ??and their political aftermaths far more fraught ??because of democratic g…