Professional Skills

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mari Sako
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Digital Technology ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Professional Skill ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Professional Skills ◽  
Skill Formation ◽  
The Third ◽  
Formation Systems ◽  
And Training

This chapter addresses the under-researched area of professional skills formation in a comparative perspective. The first part reviews the main disciplinary frameworks for analyzing the education and training of professionals. The second part develops a comparative political economy typology for categorizing varieties of professional skill formation systems. This section identifies national institutions of relevance for professional skills, which are distinct from the institutions for industrial skills formation. The rest of the chapter discusses specific forces that are transforming the nature of professionals and explores the implications for professional skills and training. In particular, The third part focuses on offshoring and digital technology, and the fourth part on the changing models for legitimizing professions. The chapter concludes by identifying key avenues for future research.

scholarly journals Social inclusion and collective skill formation systems: policy and politics

2021 ◽  
pp. 095892872110356
Author(s):  
Niccolo Durazzi ◽  
Leonard Geyer
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Skill Formation ◽  
Policy Responses ◽  
Thematic Review ◽  
Post Industrial ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Industrial Societies ◽  
Formation Systems

This thematic review essay focuses on the relationship between social inclusion and collective skill formation systems. It briefly surveys foundational literature in comparative political economy and comparative social policy that documented and explained the traditionally socially inclusive nature of these systems. It reviews how the literature conceptualized the current challenges faced by collective skill formation systems in upholding their inclusive nature in the context of the transition to post-industrial societies. It then discusses in detail a recent strand of literature that investigates the policy responses that have been deployed across countries to deal with these challenges. It concludes by providing heuristics that may be useful for researchers who seek to advance the study of the policy and politics of social inclusion in collective skill formation systems.

scholarly journals Resilience in Fukushima: Contribution to a Political Economy of Consent

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (2-4) ◽  
pp. 94-118
Author(s):  
Thierry Ribault
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The Political ◽  
Nuclear Technology ◽  
The Third ◽  
Nuclear Disaster ◽  
Fourth Level ◽  
Fukushima Daiichi ◽  
Fukushima Nuclear Disaster ◽  
And Training ◽  
The Way

This article is a contribution to the political economy of consent based on the analysis of speeches, declarations, initiatives, and policies implemented in the name of resilience in the context of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. It argues that, in practice as much as in theory, resilience fuels peoples’ submission to an existing reality—in the case of Fukushima, the submission to radioactive contamination—in an attempt to deny this reality as well as its consequences. The political economy of consent to the nuclear, of which resilience is one of the technologies, can be grasped at four interrelated analytical levels adapted to understanding how resilience is encoded in key texts and programs in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi accident. The first level is technological: consent through and to the nuclear technology. The second level is sociometabolic: consent to nuisance. The third level is political: consent to participation. The fourth level is epistemological: consent to ignorance. A fifth cognitivo-experimental transversal level can also be identified: consent to experimentation, learning and training. We first analyze two key symptoms of the despotism of resilience: its incantatory feature and the way it supports mutilated life within a contaminated area and turns disaster into a cure. Then, we show how, in the reenchanted world of resilience, loss opens doors, that is, it paves the way to new “forms of life”: first through ignorance-based disempowerment; second through submission to protection. Finally, we examine the ideological mechanisms of resilience and how it fosters a government through the fear of fear. We approach resilience as a technology of consent mobilizing emotionalism and conditioning on one side, contingency and equivalence on the other.

An Agenda for Future Research

2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
John L. Campbell ◽  
Ove K. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Policy Analysis ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Convergence Theory ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Knowledge Regime ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cross National

This postscript offers some suggestions for a research agenda for the future, including questions and propositions for scholars to consider regarding globalization and neoliberal diffusion, comparative political economy, and convergence theory. It asks whether the same conclusions can be obtained if different countries and different policy areas were examined. This curiosity about other countries might translate into efforts to change knowledge regimes, such as by doing more cross-national policy analysis. The chapter also asks whether knowledge regimes are a source of legitimation or a source of inspiration. Ultimately, more effort is required to determine whether the overall structure and practices of a knowledge regime influences the type of ideas it tends to produce.

scholarly journals Structural power and political science in the post-crisis era

2015 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 391-409 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pepper D. Culpepper
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Relation ◽  
Comparative Politics ◽  
The State ◽  
Global Capitalism ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
Structural Power ◽  
Political Actors ◽  
New Generation

This essay highlights productive ways in which scholars have reanimated the concept of structural power to explain puzzles in international and comparative politics. Past comparative scholarship stressed the dependence of the state on holders of capital, but it struggled to reconcile this supposed dependence with the frequent losses of business in political battles. International relation (IR) scholars were attentive to the power of large states, but mainstream IR neglected the ways in which the structure of global capitalism makes large companies international political players in their own right. To promote a unified conversation between international and comparative political economy, structural power is best conceptualized as a set of mutual dependencies between business and the state. A new generation of structural power research is more attentive to how the structure of capitalism creates opportunities for some companies (but not others) vis-à-vis the state, and the ways in which that structure creates leverage for some states (but not others) to play off companies against each other. Future research is likely to put agents – both states and large firms – in the foreground as political actors, rather than showing how the structure of capitalism advantages all business actors in the same way against non-business actors.

French Economic Policy

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ben Clift
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Economic Policy ◽  
Capital Mobility ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Economic Governance ◽  
Comparative Political Economy ◽  
French Case ◽  
Market Relations

This chapter explores contemporary economic policy and state–market relations in France against the backdrop of comparative political economy debates about interventionism in the economy and international political economy debates about capital mobility and policy autonomy. Charting contemporary theoretical and empirical developments in the French case and beyond, the chapter explores how to situate economic policy within institutional and ideational context, and how interests can be brought into explanation. These three “i”s, it argues, represent different but not mutually exclusive ways to explore economic policy autonomy amidst international liberalization. It argues that insights from each of the three “i”s’ literatures have enhanced understandings of French economic policy, and informed its conduct to different degrees across the decades. It concludes with the potential for “post-dirigisme” to frame future research exploring the tension between the creeping influence of rules-based policymaking, co-existing and conflicting with enduring dirigiste practices and aspirations within French economic governance.

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