Good Governance Gone Bad: How Nordic Adaptability Leads to Excess: Author: Darius Ornston (University of Toronto, Canada.E-mail: )Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2018, 276 pp., $115 (hardcover), ISBN 1501730177

Kurzer, Paulette

Yet these same countries have also suffered deep economic crises in the last 30 years The paradox of good governance yet cycles of debilitating economic and financial crises is the main focus of I Good Governance Gone Bad i by Darius Ornston. Iceland, Finland, and Sweden are part of the Nordic region, which is held up as a positive counterpoint to the market-driven economies of the US or UK. [Extracted from the article] Copyright of Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis is the property of Routledge and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)