scholarly journals Neoliberalism and the Pandemic

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 179-186
Author(s):  
Alfredo Saad-Filho
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Political Systems

Abstract This paper offers a political economy interpretation of the covid-19 pandemic, framed around its relationship to the dynamics, contradictions and limitations of global neoliberalism. It argues that the pandemic emerged in a context of growing inequalities and deepening crises in neoliberal economies and their political systems, and that the pandemic is likely to reinforce the exclusionary tendencies in the current phase of capitalism, with detrimental implications for democracy. In turn, the pandemic has revealed the limitations of neoliberalism like never before, with adverse consequences for the legitimacy of capitalism itself, and opening unprecedented spaces for left political activity.

Gramscian International Political Economy from a Feminist Perspective

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pooja Rishi
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Political Economy ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Women And Gender ◽  
Political Methodology ◽  
Feminist Literature ◽  
Relational Analysis ◽  
Feminist Perspectives ◽  
And Gender

Feminist Gramscian international political economy (IPE) is an interdisciplinary intellectual project that has focused both on theoretical and empirical analysis of women and gender within the field. Feminist Gramscian IPE emerged from the confluence of an eclectic body of work over the last several years encompassing fields as disparate as international relations, IPE, feminist economics, the literature on gender and development, and feminist literature on globalization. As with feminist perspectives in other disciplinary fields, Gramscian feminists have largely embraced postpositivist, interpretivist, and relational analysis while trying to maintain the emancipatory potential of their work for women the world over. Current Gramscian feminist analyses are firmly grounded and draw from early Marxist/Socialist feminist interventions. They have also engaged with the three major categories of analysis in Gramscian thought—ideas, material capabilities, and institutions—in order to understand hegemonic processes that function to (re)construct and (re)produce both gendered categories of analysis and practice. Feminist revisions of Gramscian IPE have focused on international institutions, rules and norms, while simultaneously shedding light on contemporary states and how they are being transformed in this current phase of globalization. Three central tasks that feminist Gramscian scholars may consider in future research are: to be more engaged with the notion of hegemony, to revisit the political methodology employed by many feminist Gramscian analyses, and to devote more attention to non-mainstream perspectives.

Pork-Barrelling in Britain: A Review

1983 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 413-438 ◽  
Author(s):  
A G Hoare
Keyword(s):  
United States Of America ◽  
Central Government ◽  
The United States ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Political Activities ◽  
Members Of Parliament ◽  
Allocation Decisions ◽  
Resource Allocation Decisions

Pork-barrelling (PB) is defined as that subset of political resource allocation decisions that is both overtly vote-catching and has an explicit spatial component. From comments on the implications of this definition, the prospects for PB being present in Britain are discussed from a back-cloth comparison between political systems in Britain and the United States of America. The ‘motives’, ‘means’, and ‘opportunities' for PB in Britain are adjudged, and a review made of possible areas of such political activity, among individual members of parliament, in one-off Westminster decisions, in more continuous streams of central government policy, in the spheres of parliamentary boundary reform and the Rate Support Grant, and among the political activities of local authorities. There is little indisputable evidence for PB in Britain, and the conclusion suggests this may be consequential on a number of different factors.

6. The Puzzle of Political Reform in the Middle East

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Augustus Richard Norton
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Civil Society ◽  
Middle East ◽  
Political Reform ◽  
Regime Type ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Arab States ◽  
The Arab Spring ◽  
The Relationship

This chapter examines the issue of political reform in the Middle East. More specifically, it considers the enormous challenges that face proponents of political reform in the region. To this end, the chapter focuses on the legacies of state formation that shape the contemporary political systems, as well as the changing economic and social parameters of societies in today’s Middle East. After explaining the democracy deficit in the Middle East, the chapter shows that the Arab states have been slow to respond to the global processes of democratization. It also explores the political economy of Arab states, the persistence of conflict, regime type, and the ambiguity over the relationship between democracy and Islam. Finally, it analyses the Arab Spring as evidence of the vibrancy and growth of civil society in many states across the region.

scholarly journals Special Issue Foreword: On the Political Economy of Amateur Athletics

2016 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Joshua I. Newman ◽  
Kyle S. Bunds
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Karl Marx ◽  
Adam Smith ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Economic Behavior ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Thorstein Veblen ◽  
State Governance ◽  
David Ricardo ◽  
Field Of Inquiry

In its most artless definition, political economy refers to the study of inter- and intrastate transaction—concerned in large part with the dialectics of state governance and the production/consumption functions therein. Many of us, with varying degrees of deliberation, have read the works of forerunning political economists such as Adam Smith (c. 1723-1790), David Ricardo (c. 1772-1823), Thomas Malthus (c. 1766-1834), John Stuart Mill (c. 1806-1873), Karl Marx (c. 1818-1883), and Thorstein Veblen (c. 1857-1929). These classic political economists and their contemporaries shared a concern for the extent to which land, labor, income, capital, and the population derived value from, and maintained contingency with, state polity. While each diverged from the others in how to best organize the State in relation to markets and exchange activities (and vice versa) so as to optimize the citizenry’s well-being, these scholars and their contemporaries laid the foundations for the long-standing field of inquiry fixed on exploring how various national political systems (democracy, monarchy, aristocracy, oligarchy, etc.), markets, and political and economic behavior could bring about national prosperity, maximize individual freedom, or raise collective utility.

scholarly journals SWS Distinguished Feminist Lecture: Feminist Politcal Economy in a Globalized World: African Women Migrants in South Africa and the United States

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (6) ◽  
pp. 765-788 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Johnson Osirim
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
South Africa ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
The United States ◽  
African Women ◽  
Current Phase ◽  
African Migrant ◽  
The Many ◽  
Globalized World ◽  
The Impact

Based on research conducted over the past two decades, this lecture examines how the feminist political economy perspective can aid us in understanding the experiences of two populations of African women: Zimbabwean women cross-border traders in South Africa and African immigrant women in the northeastern United States. Feminist political economy compels us to explore the impact of the current phase of globalization as well as the roles of intersectionality and agency in the lives of African women. This research stems from fieldwork conducted in Harare and Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and Johannesburg and Cape Town, South Africa, as well as in metropolitan Boston and Philadelphia. Despite the many challenges that African migrant women face in these different venues, they continue to demonstrate much creativity and resilience and, in the process, they contribute to community development.

Understanding Voting Behaviour in Complex Political Systems

2014 ◽  
Vol 2 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 59-65
Author(s):  
Athanasios Lapatinas
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Graph Theory ◽  
Theoretical Model ◽  
System Analysis ◽  
Systems Approach ◽  
Voting Behaviour ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Political Economy Analysis ◽  
Voting Choice

AbstractWe suggest in this paper that voting in political systems can be profitably analysed using complex system analysis. We discuss how we can capture the complexity of voting behaviour by applying graph theory in networks and we develop a simplified theoretical model of voting choice adopting the basic heuristics of the behavioural decision theory. We feel that such a complex systems approach provides a superior basis for understanding voting behaviour compared to standard political economy analysis.

Freedom and Perfection: German Debates on the State in the Eighteenth Century

2009 ◽  
Vol 42 (4) ◽  
pp. 1003-1023 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas Moggach
Keyword(s):  
Political Philosophy ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
The State ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Christian Wolff ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Political Intervention

Abstract.This paper explores eighteenth-century German debates on the relation of freedom and perfection in the course of which Kant works out his juridical theory. It contrasts the perfectionist ideas of political activity in Christian Wolff and Karl von Dalberg (a historically important but neglected figure), with Fichte's program inThe Closed Commercial State(1800), distinguishing logics of political intervention. Examining insufficiently recognized aspects of the intellectual context for Kant's distinction between happiness, right and virtue, the paper demonstrates Fichte's (problematic) application of Kantian ideas of freedom to political economy and contests current interpretations of the politically disengaged character or attenuated modernism of German political philosophy in the Enlightenment.Résumé.Ce texte étudie le rapport entre liberté et perfection dans la pensée allemande du dix-huitième siècle. C'est dans le contexte de ces débats que Kant élabore sa propre théorie juridique. En examinant les fondements théoriques de l'intervention politique, le texte fait une distinction entre le perfectionnisme éthique de Christian Wolff et de Karl von Dalberg (personnage historiquement important mais peu étudié), et le programme d'inspiration kantienne proposé par Fichte dans sonÉtat commercial fermé(1800).L'objectif du texte est de reconstruire le contexte intellectuel de la distinction kantienne entre bonheur, droit et vertu, et de démontrer l'usage problématique qu'en fait Fichte dans le domaine de l'économie politique. Le texte remet en question des interprétations récentes qui dévalorisent l'engagement politique et le modernisme des Lumières allemandes.

scholarly journals Vinay Lal, The Fury of COVID-19: The Politics, Histories, and Unrequited Love of the Coronavirus, New Dehli: Pan Macmillan Publishing, 2020.

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. iv-xi
Author(s):  
Syed sami Raza
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
The Us ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Uk

This book is composed of a set of disparate essays that are grounded in history, political economy, and philosophy. These essays focus on a range of topics addressing different dynamics of the coronavirus pandemic. They include history of pandemics, governmental discourse on health and practical strategies, the role of WHO, neo-liberal economic order and consumerism, social order and human attitudes, nationalism and immigration, and global warming and climate change. Shedding light on these various dynamics, Lal exposes the high claims made by the powerful states like the US, the UK, and European states about their superior political systems, health care programs, and welfare services.

scholarly journals Political Economy or Political Systems? How Welfare Capitalism and Political Systems Affect Law and Order Policies in Twenty Western Industrialised Nations

2017 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 209-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georg Wenzelburger
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Policy Research ◽  
The Political ◽  
Political Systems ◽  
Law And Order ◽  
Welfare Capitalism ◽  
Types Of Democracy ◽  
Industrialised Countries ◽  
Welfare State Regimes

There has been little comparative policy research hitherto on the substantial differences in law and order policies between Western industrialised countries. Instead, criminologists have filled this void and used concepts such as Esping-Andersen's worlds of welfare or Lijphart's patterns of democracy to interpret cross-country variation. However, the state of the art has two weaknesses: it almost exclusively relies on imprisonment data as dependent variable and it remains silent as to why welfare state regimes or types of democracy should be responsible for similarities in law and order policies. The present article tackles these shortcomings by (1) examining differences and commonalities in law and order policies in twenty Western industrialised countries and by (2) investigating whether the clustering of countries is associated with features of the welfare state or the political system. We find three distinct clusters and show that their formation is related to the characteristics of the political economy of the countries.

Googling the WTO: What Search-Engine Data Tell Us About the Political Economy of Institutions

2013 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 629-655 ◽  
Author(s):  
Krzysztof J. Pelc
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
International Law ◽  
Information Seeking ◽  
Web Search ◽  
Building Blocks ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Web Searches ◽  
Trade Disputes ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
Search Data

AbstractHow does international law affect state behavior? Existing models addressing this issue rest on individual preferences and voter behavior, yet these assumptions are rarely questioned. Do citizens truly react to their governments being taken to court over purported violations? I propose a novel approach to test the premise behind models of international treaty-making, using web-search data. Such data are widely used in epidemiology; in this article I claim that they are also well suited to applications in political economy. Web searches provide a unique proxy for a fundamental political activity that we otherwise have little sense of: information seeking. Information seeking by constituents can be usefully examined as an instance of political mobilization. Applying web-search data to international trade disputes, I provide evidence for the belief that US citizens are concerned about their country being branded a violator of international law, even when they have no direct material stake in the case at hand. This article constitutes a first attempt at utilizing web-search data to test the building blocks of political economy theory.

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