TERRENCE CASEY Head and Associate Professor of Political Science, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology, USA WYN GRANT Senior Tutor, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Warwick, UK DAVID COATES Worrell Professor, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, USA KARA DICKSTEIN Research Assistant, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, USA EDWARD ASHBEE Associate Professor, Department of Business and Politics, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark ALISTAIR HOWARD Assistant Professor of Political Science, Temple University, USA TIM BALE Professor of Politics, University of Sussex, UK ROBIN KOLODNY Associate Professor of Political Science, Temple University, USA GRAHAM WILSON Department Head and Professor, Department of Political Science, Boston University, USA ARTHUR I. CYR A.W. and Mary Margaret Clausen Distinguished Professor of Political Economy and World Business, Director of the A.W. Clausen Center for World Business; Director ofthe International Political Economy Program; Professor of Political Science, Carthage College, USA NICOL C. RAE Professor, Department of Politics and International Relations, Florida International University, USA JUAN S. GIL Florida International University, USA MICHAEL BROGAN Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, Rider University, USA ALEX WADDEN Senior Lecturer in American Politics and American Foreign Policy, Department of Politics and International Relations, Leicester University, USA MARK SHEPHERD Senior Lecturer, University of Strathclyde, UK JOHN E. OWENS Professor of U.S. government and Politics, Centre for the Study of Democracy, University of Westminster, UK RICHARD J. MAIMAN Professor Emeritus of Political Science, University of Southern Maine, USA.

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The Political Challenges of Hard Times; T.Casey PART I: COMPARATIVE RESPONSES TO THE FINANCIAL CRISIS Was there Ever an Anglo-Saxon Model of Capitalism?; W.Grant Capitalism, Crisis, and a Zombie Named TINA; T.Casey A Tale of Two Cities: Financial Meltdown and the Atlantic Divide; D.Coates & K.Dickstein Confronting the Economic Crisis: Fiscal Policy Responses in the United Kingdom and the United States; E.Ashbee Framing Economic and Fiscal Crisis: National Comparisons, International Markets, and Unpopular Policies in Britain and the US; A.Howard PART II: PARTIES, POLITICS, AND POLICIES IN AN AGE OF AUSTERITY Divided in Victory: Conservatives and Republicans in the Cameron Era; T.Bale & R.Kolodny The Strange Death of New Democracy; G.Wilson The Liberal Democrats and the Tea Party Movement in the 2010 Elections; A.I.Cyr Party Polarization and Ideology in Britain and the United States: Convergence or Divergence?; N.C.Rae & J.S.Gil Economics, Partisanship, and Elections: A Comparative Review of Economic-Voting in the 2010 U.K. Parliamentary Elections and U.S. Congressional Elections; M.Brogan The Politics and Political Economy of Health Care in the United States and the United Kingdom; A.Wadden The Impact of the 'War on Terror' on Executive-Legislative Relations in the UK and US: A Comparative Analysis; M.Shephard & J.E.Owens The 'War on Terror' in Court: A Comparative Analysis of Judicial Empowerment; R.J.Maiman Anglo-American Politics in the Age of Austerity; T.Casey