2. Global Strategic Manipulation

Governments issue debt for good and bad reasons. While the good reasons—intertemporal tax smoothing, fiscal stimulus, and asset management—can explain some of the increases in public debt observed in recent years, they cannot account for all of the observed changes. Bad reasons for borrowing are driven by political failures associated with intergenerational transfers, strategic manipulation, and common pool problems. These political failures are a major cause of overborrowing and budgetary institutions and fiscal rules can play a role in mitigating the tendency to overborrow. While it is difficult to establish a clear causal link from high public debt to low growth, it is likely that some countries might be paying a price in terms of lower growth and greater output volatility because of excessive debt accumulation.

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The Strategic Manipulation of Transnational Temporalities

Time and Globalization ◽

10.4324/9781315233093-3 ◽

2018 ◽

pp. 27-41

Author(s):

Tony Porter * ◽

Liam Stockdale **

Keyword(s):

Strategic Manipulation

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Consensus Reaching and Strategic Manipulation in Group Decision Making With Trust Relationships

IEEE Transactions on Systems Man and Cybernetics Systems ◽

10.1109/tsmc.2019.2961752 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-15 ◽

Cited By ~ 6

Author(s):

Yucheng Dong ◽

Quanbo Zha ◽

Hengjie Zhang ◽

Francisco Herrera

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Group Decision Making ◽

Group Decision ◽

Trust Relationships ◽

Strategic Manipulation ◽

Consensus Reaching

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Social cohesion, Twitter and far-right politics in Australia: Diversity in the democratic mediasphere

European Journal of Cultural Studies ◽

10.1177/1367549419833035 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 22 (5-6) ◽

pp. 958-978 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jeffrey Lewis ◽

Philip Pond ◽

Robin Cameron ◽

Belinda Lewis

Keyword(s):

Social Cohesion ◽

Academic Discourse ◽

Nation State ◽

Far Right ◽

Liberal Politics ◽

Strategic Manipulation ◽

Television Programme ◽

Broadcast Programme

The concept of ‘social cohesion’ has become an orthodoxy in governmental and academic discourse, augmenting the complex of progressive and liberal politics that have formed around the modern, multicultural and globally engaged nation-state. The reinvigoration of far-right politics is challenging this orthodoxy, at least inasmuch as these politics appear to be gaining traction through the strategic manipulation of increasing insecurity within these democratic states. This article examines these challenges conceptually and through an empirical case study. The case study examines the appearance in 2016 of Senator Elect Pauline Hanson on the ABC’s Q&A television programme. The article examines Twitter discourses that were generated around the far-right senator’s appearance on the broadcast programme. The article concludes that ‘social cohesion’ and its role in electoral, participative and deliberative democratic processes is a largely inadequate discursive buttress to the complex of language wars within which the concept is besieged.

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