1. National Governments and Global Capital: A Recasting -- 2. Financial Market Influence on Government Policy: Theory and Hypotheses -- 3. Financial Market Influence in Developed Nations: An Empirical Assessment -- 4. Financial Market-Government Relations In Emerging Markets -- 5. Politics Meets Markets: Domestic Responses to Financial Market Pressures -- 6. Alternative Domestic Responses: Changes to Financial Market-Government Relations -- 7. History Repeating Itself? Financial Markets and National Government Policies before the First World War -- 8. Financial Market-Government Relations in the Twenty-First Century -- App. 2.1. Financial Market Interviews -- App. 3.1. Data Definitions And Sources -- App. 3.2. Full Results For Macroindicators Model -- App. 4.1. The Components of The SDDS -- App. 4.2. Rating Agency Methodologies -- App. 4.3. Rating Agency Outcomes, 1997 -- App. 6.1. Nations in Capital Controls Data Set