Great Expectations, Financialization, and Bank Bailouts in Democracies.

Accelerating financialization and rising societal wealth have meant that democratic governments increasingly provide bailouts following banking crises. Using a new long-run data set, we show that despite frequent and virulent crises before World War II, bank bailouts to protect wealth were then exce...

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Published in:	Comparative Political Studies Vol. 53; no. 8; pp. 1259 - 1298
Main Authors:	Chwieroth, Jeffrey M., Walter, Andrew
Format:	Article
Published:	Sage Publications Inc. Jul2020
Subjects:	Financial bailouts Financialization World War II Sequential pattern mining
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