Politics of Economic Liberalization

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.

• Chapter 1. Introduction: Mapping economic liberalization discourse in Western Europe.- Chapter 2. Institutional and structural foundations of discourse.- Chapter 3. Designing the discourse analysis.- Chapter 4. Unity on the substance of discourse.- Chapter 5. Diversity in the structure of discourse.- Chapter 6. Conclusion: United in diversity.

“Bruno Wueest’s Politics of Economic Liberalization is a timely contribution to the literature on comparative political economy and policy discourse. … Wueest sheds new and welcome light on old debates concerning policy convergence and divergence, institutional complementarities and comparative advantage, political polarization, access and representation.” (Matt Wilder, Swiss Political Science Review, Vol. 25 (2), 2019)