The Politics of Economic Liberalization

Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-319-87290-2
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 169 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 246 g

Reihe: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy

This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries – Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related discourses are much more than noise; rather, they are detailed expressions of institutional complementarities and political struggles. The author posits that the more open a discourse, the broader the range of perceived interests, which, in turn, increases the intensity of conflicts. Similarly, the more public discourse centres on coordination, the more intense actors need to engage with opposite interests, which most probably intensifies political disputes as well. Moreover, Wueest argues that the formation of a consensus within the political mainstream has left a vacuum for outsider parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain to feed on the contentiousness of economic liberalization policies.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Wueest, Bruno

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Europäische Union, Europapolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Systeme Vergleichende Politikwissenschaft
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Globalisierung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Introduction: Mapping economic liberalization discourse in Western Europe 1.1 Designing the inquiry 1.2 Outline of the argument 1.3 Structure of the book
2 Institutional and structural foundations of discourse 2.1 Globalization, post-industrialization and state transformation 2.2 Why institutions matter 2.3 The institutional and structural legacies of public discourse
3 Designing the discourse analysis 3.1 Selection of countries, time periods and newspapers 3.2 The actors' discursive action repertoire 3.3 Outlook on the discourse analysis
4 Unity on the substance of discourse 4.1 The internationalization of public discourse 4.2 The pro-market mainstream and its challengers 4.3 The consequences of policy position-taking and framing
5 Diversity in the structure of discourse 5.1 The accessibility and functionality of public discourse 5.2 The conflict intensity of public discourse 5.3 The impact of going public and valence attributions
6 Conclusion: United in diversity
A Aggregations A Aggregation of frames and issues B Additional classifications and formal definitions of indices C Additional analyses

Über Autor(innen)

Bruno Wueest is Research and Teaching Fellow at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. His research interests are distinctly interdisciplinary and include political communication, comparative political economy and computational linguistics. He works on the automated analysis of tweets, open survey questions, parliamentary debates and newspaper articles.