Ian Lovering
Biographic Data
| ID | 140941 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ian Lovering |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ian |
| FAMILY NAME | Lovering |
| SIGNATURE | LOVERING I |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Sussex |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2141-3088 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 9 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Radical historicism and the uses of history in Marxist IPE
International Political Economy (IPE) has long positioned itself against the ahistoricism of mainstream economics. Yet IPE scholarship itself is not immune to putting theoretical commitments over historical specificity. This article engages with this tension within Marxist IPE. We examine a prominent ‘Open Marxist’ tradition that has made important recent interventions within IPE on state capitalism, industrial policy, financialisation, and socia…
Austerity governance and the performance anxieties of the tax state
Indicative Planning and France's Backstage Contribution to Eurozone Governance
This article examines the history of indicative planning in France to challenge conceptions of Eurozone governance. French planning is seen as a road not taken in Europe. Instead, the Eurozone is conceptualised through planning's antagonist – German ordoliberalism. Key features of this are rules‐based austerity and price stability pursued by an independent central bank. Scholars have, however, recognised that Eurozone governance exceeds ordoliber…
Towards a tika political science
This article is a rejoinder to two previous articles about the political science discipline in Aotearoa New Zealand published in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education: Annie Te One and Maria Bargh's "Towards a Fairer and More Tika Political Science and Politics: Are Political Science Programs Equipping Students Adequately for Aotearoa Realities?" (vol. 52, no. 2) and Jack Vowles's "Fairness, Tika and Political Science in Aotearoa New Zea…
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management
This article studies how the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) is reconfiguring social and economic policy-making in the European Union (EU). The MIP was meant to tackle competitiveness-based imbalances but today addresses a broader range of social concerns. Scholars agree this fits in a trend of depoliticizing governance through tools of performance management. But they disagree whether this marks the ‘socialisation’ or ‘neoliberalization’…
Neoliberal failures and the managerial takeover of governance
The history of neoliberalism is a messy attempt to turn theory into practice. Neoliberals struggled with their plans to implement flagship policies of monetarism, fiscal prudence, and public sector privatisation. Yet, inflation was still cut, welfare slashed, and the public sector ‘marketised’. Existing literature often interprets this as neoliberalism ‘failing-forward’, achieving policy goals by whatever means necessary and at great social cost.…
The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Review of the book The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Bruised but not beaten
State responses to the global financial and European sovereign debt crisis have been dominated by a paradigm of austerity. This paradigm has called for the reduction of public expenditure on the basis that recent economic crises were caused by excessive public spending and debt. In contrast to explanations of austerity’s persistence that focus on the role of powerful actors or institutions, this article will highlight the role of discourse and ar…
Bruised but not beaten
State responses to the global financial and European sovereign debt crisis have been dominated by a paradigm of austerity. This paradigm has called for the reduction of public expenditure on the basis that recent economic crises were caused by excessive public spending and debt. In contrast to explanations of austerity’s persistence that focus on the role of powerful actors or institutions, this article will highlight the role of discourse and ar…
Indicative Planning and France's Backstage Contribution to Eurozone Governance
This article examines the history of indicative planning in France to challenge conceptions of Eurozone governance. French planning is seen as a road not taken in Europe. Instead, the Eurozone is conceptualised through planning's antagonist – German ordoliberalism. Key features of this are rules‐based austerity and price stability pursued by an independent central bank. Scholars have, however, recognised that Eurozone governance exceeds ordoliber…
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management
This article studies how the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) is reconfiguring social and economic policy-making in the European Union (EU). The MIP was meant to tackle competitiveness-based imbalances but today addresses a broader range of social concerns. Scholars agree this fits in a trend of depoliticizing governance through tools of performance management. But they disagree whether this marks the ‘socialisation’ or ‘neoliberalization’…
Austerity governance and the performance anxieties of the tax state
Neoliberal failures and the managerial takeover of governance
The history of neoliberalism is a messy attempt to turn theory into practice. Neoliberals struggled with their plans to implement flagship policies of monetarism, fiscal prudence, and public sector privatisation. Yet, inflation was still cut, welfare slashed, and the public sector ‘marketised’. Existing literature often interprets this as neoliberalism ‘failing-forward’, achieving policy goals by whatever means necessary and at great social cost.…
Bruised but not beaten
State responses to the global financial and European sovereign debt crisis have been dominated by a paradigm of austerity. This paradigm has called for the reduction of public expenditure on the basis that recent economic crises were caused by excessive public spending and debt. In contrast to explanations of austerity’s persistence that focus on the role of powerful actors or institutions, this article will highlight the role of discourse and ar…
The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Review of the book The Knowledge We Have Lost in Information
Neoliberal failures and the managerial takeover of governance
The history of neoliberalism is a messy attempt to turn theory into practice. Neoliberals struggled with their plans to implement flagship policies of monetarism, fiscal prudence, and public sector privatisation. Yet, inflation was still cut, welfare slashed, and the public sector ‘marketised’. Existing literature often interprets this as neoliberalism ‘failing-forward’, achieving policy goals by whatever means necessary and at great social cost.…
Balancing EU social and economic governance through performance management
This article studies how the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure (MIP) is reconfiguring social and economic policy-making in the European Union (EU). The MIP was meant to tackle competitiveness-based imbalances but today addresses a broader range of social concerns. Scholars agree this fits in a trend of depoliticizing governance through tools of performance management. But they disagree whether this marks the ‘socialisation’ or ‘neoliberalization’…
Indicative Planning and France's Backstage Contribution to Eurozone Governance
This article examines the history of indicative planning in France to challenge conceptions of Eurozone governance. French planning is seen as a road not taken in Europe. Instead, the Eurozone is conceptualised through planning's antagonist – German ordoliberalism. Key features of this are rules‐based austerity and price stability pursued by an independent central bank. Scholars have, however, recognised that Eurozone governance exceeds ordoliber…
Towards a tika political science
This article is a rejoinder to two previous articles about the political science discipline in Aotearoa New Zealand published in The Australian Journal of Indigenous Education: Annie Te One and Maria Bargh's "Towards a Fairer and More Tika Political Science and Politics: Are Political Science Programs Equipping Students Adequately for Aotearoa Realities?" (vol. 52, no. 2) and Jack Vowles's "Fairness, Tika and Political Science in Aotearoa New Zea…
Radical historicism and the uses of history in Marxist IPE
International Political Economy (IPE) has long positioned itself against the ahistoricism of mainstream economics. Yet IPE scholarship itself is not immune to putting theoretical commitments over historical specificity. This article engages with this tension within Marxist IPE. We examine a prominent ‘Open Marxist’ tradition that has made important recent interventions within IPE on state capitalism, industrial policy, financialisation, and socia…
Austerity governance and the performance anxieties of the tax state
Politics (7 works) · Law (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Political economy (5 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (5 works) · Corporate governance (4 works) · Political and Economic history of UK and US (4 works) · Austerity (3 works)