Constructing Neoliberalism

Economic Transformation in Anglo-American Democracies

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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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. This period witnessed a dramatic shift away from traditional post-war consensus policies of active state economic intervention, public ownership, and full employment toward those informed by an ideological commitment to deregulation, privatization, entrepreneurialism, and freer trade.Jonathan Swarts argues that this transformation was not simply a marginal adjustment in existing economic policies, but rather the result of political elites seeking to reshape what he calls their societies’ “political-economic imaginaries.” Swarts demonstrates that this shift cut across traditional party lines, and that in all four cases, the result was a new set of intersubjective norms about appropriate economic policies, the role of the state in the economy, the expectations and aspirations of citizens, and the very nature of an advanced industrial democracy in a globalizing world.

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Utgivningsdatum2023-05-09
Mått152 x 229 x 15 mm
Vikt430 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor312
FörlagUniversity of Toronto Press
ISBN9781487555559

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Acknowledgements 1. The Construction of Political-Economic Imaginaries Imaginaries, Norm Entrepreneurs and the Ideas-Praxis Linkage The Political-Economic ImaginaryThe Ideas-Praxis LinkageContestation and Normative Change How to Be a Norm Entrepreneur: Persuasion or Coercion (or Both)Analyzing the Construction of Neoliberal Political-Economic Imaginaries2. Prelude to Neoliberalism: The Post-War Policy Paradigm and the Economic Turmoil of the 1970s The Dominant Post-War Economic Paradigm BritainCanadaAustralia and New Zealand Economic Crisis: Providing an Opening for Change3. The Neoliberal Revolution of the 1980s and Beyond The “Crash Through or Crash” Approach to Norm EntrepreneurialismGradualism and Ideational ChangeThe Entrenchment of Neoliberalism Beyond the 1980s4. The Strategic Construction of the Neoliberal Political-Economic Imaginary Norm Entrepreneurs and Ideational ChangeNorm Entrepreneurs and the Political-Economic Environment National Economic CrisisThe Role of Economic BureaucratsThe Structure of Political Institutions Constructing the Neoliberal Necessity The Economic Crisis ArgumentThe Long-Term Decline ArgumentThe International ArgumentTINA: The Meta-Argument Conclusion5. Labor Markets and the Power of Partisanship 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” Conclusion6. “The Market Has Won”: Norm Entrepreneurs and the Anglo-American Neoliberal Imaginary References