The Politics Of Economic Liberalization (building A Sustainable Political Economy: Speri Research & Policy)
by Bruno Wueest /
2017 / English / PDF
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This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization
reform in six Western European countries – Germany, France, the
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It
provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related
discourses are much more than noise; rather, they are detailed
expressions of institutional complementarities and political
struggles. The author posits that the more open a
discourse, the broader the range of perceived interests, which,
in turn, increases the intensity of conflicts. Similarly, the
more public discourse centres on coordination, the more
intense actors need to engage with opposite interests, which
most probably intensifies political disputes as well.
Moreover, Wueest argues that the formation of a consensus
within the political mainstream has left a vacuum for
outsider parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in
Spain to feed on the contentiousness of economic liberalization
policies.
This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization
reform in six Western European countries – Germany, France, the
United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It
provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related
discourses are much more than noise; rather, they are detailed
expressions of institutional complementarities and political
struggles. The author posits that the more open a
discourse, the broader the range of perceived interests, which,
in turn, increases the intensity of conflicts. Similarly, the
more public discourse centres on coordination, the more
intense actors need to engage with opposite interests, which
most probably intensifies political disputes as well.
Moreover, Wueest argues that the formation of a consensus
within the political mainstream has left a vacuum for
outsider parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in
Spain to feed on the contentiousness of economic liberalization
policies.
