Claes Belfrage
Biographic Data
| ID | 111324 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Claes Belfrage |
| GIVEN NAMES | Claes |
| FAMILY NAME | Belfrage |
| SIGNATURE | BELFRAGE C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Liverpool |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0866-4787 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 66 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 12 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The politicisation of macroprudential regulation
This article explores the prospects of stabilising financialisation in Europe as a spatial-temporal fix for Anglo-American capitalism's crisis-tendencies. We analyse the politics of (countercyclical) macroprudential regulation in the critical case study of Sweden. Here, macroprudential regulation is introduced, in contrast with much of the rest of the EU economies, in a credit boom. We find evidence of an administrative crisis, as technocrats fac…
The Gentle Art of Retroduction
This article, first, proposes critical grounded theory (CGT) as a way to develop systematically an array of methods and theoretical propositions into a coherent critical methodology for organization studies (and beyond). Second, it demonstrates CGT’s usefulness through a case study of competing recovery projects from the Icelandic financial crisis. CGT is developed in engagement with the emerging paradigm of cultural political economy (CPE) and i…
Aesthetic International Political Economy
A critique of neo-mercantilist analyses of Icelandic political economy and crisis
Iceland's journey from rags to riches in the 20th century is related, in the dominant discourse, to its gaining independence in 1944. This discourse played a significant role in both the legitimation of the finance-dominated growth model in the 1990s and 2000s and in the latter's defence as it came under scrutiny before its collapse in October 2008. It is therefore ironic - or perhaps, in some sense, logical - to find dominant analyses of the cri…
Operationalizing cultural political economy
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to take conceptual and methodological steps towards the elaboration of the critical grounded theory (CGT) method.Design/methodology/approach- Starting from conceptual issues with mapping everyday discourses and practices in their broader societal context in organisational ethnography, cultural political economy (CPE) is proposed as a suitable theoretical framework for integrating the cultural dimension of dis…
Critical international political economy
For a critical engagement with aesthetics in IPE
Facing up to financialisation and the aesthetic economy
The Romantic Economist
Policy Networks and the Distinction Between Insider and Outsider Groups
Unsurprisingly, a great deal has been written about the role of interest groups in contemporary societies. Here, we focus on two sets of concepts that have had influence in the UK literature: the distinction between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ groups originally developed by Grant (1978, 2000); and the classification of policy networks developed by Marsh and Rhodes (1992; see also Marsh and Smith 2000). We have two aims in this article. First, we use…
Renegotiating the Swedish Social Democratic Settlement
Steering a middle course between the strong neoliberalization thesis and arguments that deny that neoliberalization has occurred, this article accounts for the complex and hybridic shift in Sweden from pension reform through share ownership as a socialist strategy to an as-of-yet incomplete and contradictory neoliberal process. Noting the broader significance of Sweden for the international debate over pension reform, the article unpacks the conc…
Towards ‘universal financialisation’ in Sweden
The reform of Swedish pensions serves as a case study to explore resistant institutions and logics shaping processes of financialisation in Europe. EU membership cemented the path towards neoliberal restructuring, yet Sweden remained an unlikely case for financialisation by the mid-nineties. Social Democratic principles and practices of de-commodification and redistribution remained dominant with pensions at the core. Reform aimed at changing thi…
Renegotiating the Swedish Social Democratic Settlement
Steering a middle course between the strong neoliberalization thesis and arguments that deny that neoliberalization has occurred, this article accounts for the complex and hybridic shift in Sweden from pension reform through share ownership as a socialist strategy to an as-of-yet incomplete and contradictory neoliberal process. Noting the broader significance of Sweden for the international debate over pension reform, the article unpacks the conc…
Towards ‘universal financialisation’ in Sweden
The reform of Swedish pensions serves as a case study to explore resistant institutions and logics shaping processes of financialisation in Europe. EU membership cemented the path towards neoliberal restructuring, yet Sweden remained an unlikely case for financialisation by the mid-nineties. Social Democratic principles and practices of de-commodification and redistribution remained dominant with pensions at the core. Reform aimed at changing thi…
Policy Networks and the Distinction Between Insider and Outsider Groups
Unsurprisingly, a great deal has been written about the role of interest groups in contemporary societies. Here, we focus on two sets of concepts that have had influence in the UK literature: the distinction between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ groups originally developed by Grant (1978, 2000); and the classification of policy networks developed by Marsh and Rhodes (1992; see also Marsh and Smith 2000). We have two aims in this article. First, we use…
Operationalizing cultural political economy
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to take conceptual and methodological steps towards the elaboration of the critical grounded theory (CGT) method.Design/methodology/approach- Starting from conceptual issues with mapping everyday discourses and practices in their broader societal context in organisational ethnography, cultural political economy (CPE) is proposed as a suitable theoretical framework for integrating the cultural dimension of dis…
Aesthetic International Political Economy
The politicisation of macroprudential regulation
This article explores the prospects of stabilising financialisation in Europe as a spatial-temporal fix for Anglo-American capitalism's crisis-tendencies. We analyse the politics of (countercyclical) macroprudential regulation in the critical case study of Sweden. Here, macroprudential regulation is introduced, in contrast with much of the rest of the EU economies, in a credit boom. We find evidence of an administrative crisis, as technocrats fac…
Towards ‘universal financialisation’ in Sweden
The reform of Swedish pensions serves as a case study to explore resistant institutions and logics shaping processes of financialisation in Europe. EU membership cemented the path towards neoliberal restructuring, yet Sweden remained an unlikely case for financialisation by the mid-nineties. Social Democratic principles and practices of de-commodification and redistribution remained dominant with pensions at the core. Reform aimed at changing thi…
Policy Networks and the Distinction Between Insider and Outsider Groups
Unsurprisingly, a great deal has been written about the role of interest groups in contemporary societies. Here, we focus on two sets of concepts that have had influence in the UK literature: the distinction between ‘insider’ and ‘outsider’ groups originally developed by Grant (1978, 2000); and the classification of policy networks developed by Marsh and Rhodes (1992; see also Marsh and Smith 2000). We have two aims in this article. First, we use…
Renegotiating the Swedish Social Democratic Settlement
Steering a middle course between the strong neoliberalization thesis and arguments that deny that neoliberalization has occurred, this article accounts for the complex and hybridic shift in Sweden from pension reform through share ownership as a socialist strategy to an as-of-yet incomplete and contradictory neoliberal process. Noting the broader significance of Sweden for the international debate over pension reform, the article unpacks the conc…
The Romantic Economist
Facing up to financialisation and the aesthetic economy
Critical international political economy
For a critical engagement with aesthetics in IPE
A critique of neo-mercantilist analyses of Icelandic political economy and crisis
Iceland's journey from rags to riches in the 20th century is related, in the dominant discourse, to its gaining independence in 1944. This discourse played a significant role in both the legitimation of the finance-dominated growth model in the 1990s and 2000s and in the latter's defence as it came under scrutiny before its collapse in October 2008. It is therefore ironic - or perhaps, in some sense, logical - to find dominant analyses of the cri…
Operationalizing cultural political economy
Purpose- The purpose of this paper is to take conceptual and methodological steps towards the elaboration of the critical grounded theory (CGT) method.Design/methodology/approach- Starting from conceptual issues with mapping everyday discourses and practices in their broader societal context in organisational ethnography, cultural political economy (CPE) is proposed as a suitable theoretical framework for integrating the cultural dimension of dis…
Aesthetic International Political Economy
The Gentle Art of Retroduction
This article, first, proposes critical grounded theory (CGT) as a way to develop systematically an array of methods and theoretical propositions into a coherent critical methodology for organization studies (and beyond). Second, it demonstrates CGT’s usefulness through a case study of competing recovery projects from the Icelandic financial crisis. CGT is developed in engagement with the emerging paradigm of cultural political economy (CPE) and i…
The politicisation of macroprudential regulation
This article explores the prospects of stabilising financialisation in Europe as a spatial-temporal fix for Anglo-American capitalism's crisis-tendencies. We analyse the politics of (countercyclical) macroprudential regulation in the critical case study of Sweden. Here, macroprudential regulation is introduced, in contrast with much of the rest of the EU economies, in a credit boom. We find evidence of an administrative crisis, as technocrats fac…
Political science (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · Economics (9 works) · Political economy (8 works) · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Critical theory (4 works)