scholarly journals Contentious Episodes in the Age of Austerity

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Contentious Politics ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Event Analysis ◽  
Middle Ground ◽  
Narrative Approaches ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
New Research

Based on extensive data and analysis of sixty contentious episodes in twelve European countries, this book proposes a novel approach that takes a middle ground between narrative approaches and conventional protest event analysis. Looking particularly at responses to austerity policies in the aftermath of the Great Recession (2008–2015), the authors develop a rigorous conceptual framework that focuses on the interactions between three types of participants in contentious politics: governments, challengers, and third parties. This approach allows political scientists to map not only the variety of actors and actor coalitions that drove the interactions in the different episodes, but also the interplay of repression/concessions/support and of mobilization/cooperation/mediation on the part of the actors involved in the contention. The methodology used will enable researchers to answer old (and new) research questions related to political conflict in a way that is simultaneously attentive to conceptual depth and statistical rigor.

Grandparent Coresidence and Family Well-Being

2014 ◽  
Vol 654 (1) ◽  
pp. 110-126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel E. Dunifon ◽  
Kathleen M. Ziol-Guest ◽  
Kimberly Kopko
Keyword(s):  
Marital Status ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Living Arrangements ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
The Family ◽  
New Research ◽  
Economic Well Being

U.S. children today have increasingly diverse living arrangements. In 2012, 10 percent of children lived with at least one grandparent; 8 percent lived in three-generational households, consisting of a parent and a grandparent; while 2 percent lived with a grandparent and no parent in the household. This article reviews the literature on grandparent coresidence and presents new research on children coresiding with grandparents in modern families. Findings suggest that grandparent coresidence is quite common and that its prevalence increased during the Great Recession. Additionally, these living arrangements are diverse themselves, varying by the marital status of the parent, the home in which the family lives, and the economic well-being of the family. Suggestions for future research are also proposed.

scholarly journals Workers’ EU political alignments during the Great Recession

2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 387-408 ◽  
Author(s):  
André Freire ◽  
Luís Cabrita ◽  
Mariana Carmo Duarte ◽  
Hugo Ferrinho Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
The Other ◽  
Election Study ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Political Alignments ◽  
European Election ◽  
Using Data ◽  
The One ◽  
The Eu

Using data from the European Election Study 2014, this article focuses on workers’ EU political alignments during the Great Recession. It deals with two research questions. First, how does the attitude of (manual) workers towards the EU compare to that of the middle and upper classes in the aftermath of the Great Recession? Second, when it comes to workers’ support for the EU, are there systematic differences between countries affected by the crisis? The article finds that, on the one hand, in terms of patterns of workers’ EU political alignments, there are no systematic differences between countries affected to varying degrees by the Great Recession. On the other hand, workers still feel fundamentally detached from the EU, especially when it comes to the manual workers. However, high levels of generalised detachment from the EU are not clearly translated into preferences for Eurosceptic parties, since there are high levels of vote fragmentation.

scholarly journals What Happened: Financial Factors in the Great Recession

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
pp. 3-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Gertler ◽  
Simon Gilchrist
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Financial Distress ◽  
Global Financial Crisis ◽  
Balance Sheet ◽  
House Price ◽  
Empirical Work ◽  
Common Finding ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
New Research

At the onset of the recent global financial crisis, the workhorse macroeconomic models assumed frictionless financial markets. These frameworks were thus not able to anticipate the crisis, nor to analyze how the disruption of credit markets changed what initially appeared like a mild downturn into the Great Recession. Since that time, an explosion of both theoretical and empirical research has investigated how the financial crisis emerged and how it was transmitted to the real sector. The goal of this paper is to describe what we have learned from this new research and how it can be used to understand what happened during the Great Recession. In the process, we also present some new empirical work. We argue that a complete description of the Great Recession must take account of the financial distress facing both households and banks and, as the crisis unfolded, nonfinancial firms as well. Exploiting both panel data and time series methods, we analyze the contribution of the house price decline, versus the banking distress indicator, to the overall decline in employment during the Great Recession. We confirm a common finding in the literature that the household balance sheet channel is important for regional variation in employment. However, we also find that the disruption in banking was central to the overall employment contraction.

scholarly journals Stuck in a Time Warp? The Great Recession and the Socio-occupational Integration of Migrants in Spain

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Juan Ramón Jiménez-García ◽  
Antonina Levatino
Keyword(s):  
Great Recession ◽  
Labour Force ◽  
Occupational Class ◽  
Occupational Structure ◽  
Unequal Distribution ◽  
Main Research ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Occupational Integration ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
First Time

AbstractThis article examines the socio-occupational integration of the immigrant population in Spain for a time span that, for the first time, includes the post-crisis period. Using the Spanish Labour Force Survey and conducting a socio-occupational analysis, we predict the probability that a migrant would be employed in one socio-occupational class over another in three periods: before, during and after the crisis. Our main research questions are as follows: (1) To what extent do migrants tend to be located in certain socio-occupational classes? (2) To what extent does the likelihood of belonging to a certain socio-occupational class differ according to immigrants’ places of origin? (3) Can differences be found in the likelihood of belonging to a certain socio-occupational class according to the places of origin before, during and after the Great Recession? The results show a very unequal distribution of immigrants in the socio-occupational structure according to their origin. While immigrants from Schengen Europe and North America are better located in the occupational structure, those from Eastern Europe and Africa are over-represented in the lower socio-occupational classes.

scholarly journals Parental job loss and early child development in the Great Recession

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabriele Mari ◽  
Renske Keizer
Keyword(s):  
Child Development ◽  
Great Recession ◽  
Job Loss ◽  
Verbal Ability ◽  
Early Child Development ◽  
Family Investment ◽  
Parental Income ◽  
Early Child ◽  
The Great Recession ◽  
Novel Approach

Parental job loss may stifle early child development, and this might help explain why children of displaced parents fare worse later in life. To investigate this, the study relies on Irish cohort data (N = 6,303) collected around the Great Recession. A novel approach to mediation analysis is deployed, assessing predictions derived from models of family investment and family stress.Parental job loss is found to exacerbate problem behaviour at age 3 and 5, via the channels of parental income and maternal negative parenting. By depressing parental income, job loss also hampers children's verbal ability at age 3. This is tied to reduced affordability of formal childcare, highlighting a policy lever that might tame the intergenerational toll of job loss.

Eyesthetics

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (CHI PLAY) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Argenis Ramirez Gomez ◽  
Michael Lankes
Keyword(s):  
Interaction Design ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Gaze Interaction ◽  
Player Experience ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Research Questions ◽  
Art Research ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
New Research

Gaze interaction has been growing fast as a compelling tool for control and immersion for gameplay. Here, we present a conceptual framework focusing on the aesthetic player experience and the potential interpretation (meaning) players could give to playing with gaze interaction capabilities. The framework is illustrated by a survey of state of the art research-based and commercial games. We complement existing frameworks by reflecting on gaze interaction in games as the attention relationship between the player (the subject) and the game (the object) with four dimensions: Identity; Mapping; Attention; and Direction. The framework serves as a design and inquiry toolbox to analyse and communicate gaze mechanics in games, reflect on the complexity of gaze interaction, and formulate new research questions. We visualise the resulting design space, highlighting future opportunities for gaze interaction design and HCI gaze research through the framework's lens. We deem, this novel approach advocates for the design of gaze-based interactions revealing the richness of gaze input in future meaningful game experiences.

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