Palumbo / Scott Remaking Market Society

A Critique of Social Theory and Political Economy in Neoliberal Times
Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-1-135-04168-7
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 242 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy

Neoliberalism has been one of the most hotly contested themes in academic and political debate over the last thirty years. Given the global and persistent influence of neoliberal ideas on contemporary styles of governance, social-service provision, and public policy, this intensive interest is understandable. At the same time, the use of the term has become loose, vague, and over-extended, particularly in the extensive critical literature. Rather than engage in further critique, or in the reconstruction of the history of neoliberalism, this volume seeks to bring analytical clarity to the ongoing debate.

Drawing inspiration from the work of the Hungarian economic historian, Karl Polanyi, Remaking Market Society combines critique, original formulations, and case studies to form an analytical framework which identifies the key instruments of neoliberal governance. These include privatization, marketization, and liberalization. The case studies examine the development of neoliberal instruments (reform of the British civil service); their refinement (reform of higher education in England and Wales); and their dissemination across national borders (EU integration policies). Rather than look back nostalgically on the post-war welfare-state settlement, in the final chapter the authors ask why the coalitions that supported that settlement broke down in the face of the neoliberal reform movement.

This highly original work offers a distinctive transdisciplinary approach to political economy, and therefore is an important read for students and academics who are interested in political economy as well as social theory and political philosophy.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Palumbo, Antonino

Scott, Alan

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein Wirtschaftstheorie, Wirtschaftsphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

INTRODUCTION



PART ONE: MODERNITY: CONTINUITY AND CHANGE

CHAPTER ONE: Social theory as Critique of Political Economy: the Polanyian Synthesis and Its Influence

CHAPTER TWO: Theories of the Second Modernity: a Critique

CHAPTER THREE: A Modernist Counter-Narrative



PART TWO: MODELS AND CASES: THE NPM TEMPLATE

INTRODUCTION New Public Management as a Fruit Machine:

Explaining Public Services Reform as a Three-Level Game

CHAPTER FOUR: New Public Management and the British Civil Service:

Setting the Template of a Complex Policy Instrument

CHAPTER FIVE: Refining the Template: NPM in British Higher Education

CHAPTER SIX: Exporting the Template: EU Integration Policies and the Diffusion of the NPM Template

CHAPTER SEVEN: Conclusion: Knowledge as a New Fictitious Commodity?



APPENDIX ONE: Major civil service policy initiatives carried out from 1979 to 2010

APPENDIX TWO: Major reform initiatives in HE since 1979



BIBLIOGRAPHY

Über Autor(innen)

Antonino Palumbo is a political theorist who works on globalization, the transformation of governance and the implications of changes in state steering for modern representative democracies. Since 2002 he has been teaching at Palermo University (Italy), where he is an associate professor in political philosophy.

Alan Scott is Professor in the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences, University of New England, Australia, and Professor of Sociology at the University of Innsbruck, Austria. He has taught and researched at universities in the UK, Austria, Australia, and France, and his main research interests are in the fields of political sociology and social theory.