On the Political Economy of Economic Policy Advice — With Applications of Environmental Policy

2005 ◽  
pp. 277-298 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gebhard Kirchgässner
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Environmental Policy ◽  
Policy Advice ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals The Political Economy of Policy Reform: Insights from Southeast Asia

2013 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 108-130 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hal Hill
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
The Political ◽  
Policy Issues ◽  
Political Processes ◽  
Economics And Politics ◽  
Political Economy Of Reform

Economists broadly agree on many key economic policy issues, but economics as a discipline has provided much less guidance on why and how economic policy reform occurs and how to develop institutional mechanisms that enable governments to adopt “good” economic policy. Political scientists are adept at identifying coalitions, constituencies, institutions, and interest groups, but they less commonly examine the implications for economic policy. Thus, work at the intersection between economics and politics—of why and how policy reform takes place—remains relatively unexplored territory. This is especially so in developing countries where political processes are more personalistic, institutions often less well established, outcomes more fluid, and the detailed case study literature on economic policy making still in its infancy. This paper provides an analytical survey of economic policy reform in Southeast Asia. It ranges across the major policy U-turns and the incremental reforms, with special reference to macroeconomic management and trade policy. On the basis of several case studies and set against the broader international literature, we advance nine conclusions on the political economy of reform.

The Political Economy of Israeli Neoliberalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronen Mandelkern ◽  
Michael Shalev
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Socioeconomic Inequality ◽  
The Political ◽  
State Agencies ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
State Actors

Israel’s political economy has been transformed since the 1980s from a developmental to a neoliberal model. This chapter describes and explains this transformation, emphasizing the unevenness and incompleteness of liberalization and its impact on socioeconomic inequality. Adopting a historical-institutionalist perspective to explain both the rise of Israeli neoliberalism and its unevenness, the chapter argues that liberalization was led by economic technocrats in state agencies, who were guided by liberal economic ideas and simultaneously pursuing their interest in greater authority and autonomy. The technocrats were empowered by re-engineering economic policy institutions and cooperating with other political actors. However, their ability to fulfill the goal of technocratic management of a competition-driven economy was limited by the continuing power of some sectors of both business and labor and the continuing vibrancy of the state’s national and military projects. The conclusion discusses recent challenges to neoliberalism in Israel as a result of public discontent and conflict between state actors.

WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF ECONOMIC POLICY REFORM?

1993 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 143-168 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stephan Haggard ◽  
Steven B. Webb
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Policy Reform ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals The Limits of ‘Securitization’: Power, Politics and Process in US Foreign Economic Policy

2007 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-189 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicola Phillips
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Ad Hoc ◽  
Economic Security ◽  
Us Foreign Policy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Environment ◽  
Foreign Economic Policy ◽  
Power Politics

AbstractThe concept of ‘securitization’ has become particularly influential in the post-9/11 world. This paper aims to scrutinize and, ultimately, reject an emerging set of claims about political economy which draw upon this framework. The contention that US foreign economic policy is increasingly subject to a process of securitization misrepresents the substance of contemporary US foreign policy, the political environment in which it is articulated and the process by which it is made. Pursuing this argument, the paper sets out a framework within which to understand the evolution of contemporary US policy, paying attention to distinctive forms of the economic–security nexus; the form of ‘ad hoc reactivism’ that has consistently characterized US foreign economic policy; the set of commercial and wider economic goals to which policy responds; and the dynamics of competition for leadership in key regions.

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