Jonathan Swarts

Constructing Neoliberalism (eBook, PDF)

Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies

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Produktbeschreibung

Constructing Neoliberalism presents a rich analysis of the shift to neoliberal economic policies in four Anglo-American democracies - Canada, Britain, Australia, and New Zealand - over the course of the 1980s and 1990s.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781442665781
• Artikelnr.: 54111084

Autorenporträt

Jonathan Swarts is an associate professor of Political Science in the Department of Social Sciences at Purdue University North Central.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
1. The Construction of Political-Economic Imaginaries
1. Imaginaries, Norm Entrepreneurs and the Ideas-Praxis Linkage
* The Political-Economic Imaginary
* The Ideas-Praxis Linkage
* Contestation and Normative Change
2. How to Be a Norm Entrepreneur: Persuasion or Coercion (or Both)
3. Analyzing the Construction of Neoliberal Political-Economic Imaginaries
2. Prelude to Neoliberalism: The Post-War Policy Paradigm and the Economic
Turmoil of the 1970s
4. The Dominant Post-War Economic Paradigm
* Britain
* Canada
* Australia and New Zealand
5. Economic Crisis: Providing an Opening for Change
3. The Neoliberal Revolution of the 1980s and Beyond
* The “Crash Through or Crash” Approach to Norm Entrepreneurialism
* Gradualism and Ideational Change
* The Entrenchment of Neoliberalism Beyond the 1980s
4. The Strategic Construction of the Neoliberal Political-Economic
Imaginary
6. Norm Entrepreneurs and Ideational Change
7. Norm Entrepreneurs and the Political-Economic Environment
* National Economic Crisis
* The Role of Economic Bureaucrats
* The Structure of Political Institutions
8. Constructing the Neoliberal Necessity
* The Economic Crisis Argument
* The Long-Term Decline Argument
* The International Argument
* TINA: The Meta-Argument
9. Conclusion
5. Labor Markets and the Power of Partisanship
10. Labor Market Policy: Variations on a Neoliberal Theme
* Britain: The Unions as “Scapegoats of National Decline”
* Australia and New Zealand: Maintaining the Unions’ “Legislative
Cocoon”
11. Conclusion
6. “The Market Has Won”: Norm Entrepreneurs and the Anglo-American
Neoliberal Imaginary
References