L Mudge
Biographic Data
| ID | 169843 |
|---|---|
| NAME | L Mudge |
| GIVEN NAMES | L |
| FAMILY NAME | Mudge |
| SIGNATURE | MUDGE L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Davis |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1008-3693 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 345 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times
Anything but Inevitable: How the Marshall Plan Became Possible
Historians typically explain the Marshall Plan (1948-52) as an effect of a bipartisan embrace of liberal internationalism, which became the dominant ideology of US foreign policy. However, predominant accounts downplay interpretive contention, historical contingencies, and counterfactual possibilities that are very much in evidence. There was no bipartisan liberal internationalist consensus immediately after World War II; indeed, there were no 'l…
Dependence on independence: Central bank lawyers and the (un)making of the European economy
We analyse the trajectory of independence in the formation of the European Central Bank (ECB), conceptualized as a boundary organization that, by delineating the European economy, contributes to a supranational state effect. Success in the effort, however, requires the ECB to constantly assert a separate and special status, despite its embeddedness in multiple fields. Focusing on the European Monetary Institute, the ECB's predecessor, we trace ho…
How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project
Movement to market, currency to property: The rise and fall of Bitcoin as an anti-state movement, 2009-2014
Can social movements mobilize market devices to challenge the political-economic order? Focusing on Bitcoin, we argue that an effective anti-state market device needs to be durably 'counterearmarked', to use Viviana Zelizer's term, with radical meaning. This durability, however, requires that the movement build alliances with holders of political and economic power who also embrace the device's radical meaning, lest those actors reformat the devi…
For a First-Person Political Economy: A Comment on Michael McCarthy'sDismantling Solidarity
Can Government-By-Market be Democratized? - Sylvain Laurens, Lobbyists and Bureaucrats in Brussels: Capitalism’s Brokers (Routledge, 2018)
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Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Analyzing left-leaning parties in the U.S., Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Stephanie Mudge shows that the left lost voters’ loyalty in part because of the changing worldview of party experts. Keynesian economists in the 1960s who spoke for managing the economy gave way in the 1980s to economists advocating the advancement of markets
Fielding supranationalism: The European Central Bank as a field effect
Fielding Supranationalism: The European Central Bank as a Field Effect
The European Central Bank (ECB), like all European institutions, poses basic problems of definition and comparability. Mobilizing Bourdieusian field theory (BFT) to resolve them, we map out the ECB's deep investments in scientific prestige and scholarly productivity – that is, its hyper-scientization – and the ambiguities therein, and then set out to explain them. Mobilizing diverse sources that include official documents, on-site interviews, and…
The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Explaining Political Tunnel Vision: Politics and Economics in Crisis-Ridden Europe, Then and Now
The grip of austerity in European politics since 2008 presents a double puzzle: electorally weak center-left parties offering no definite alternative, and the surprisingly efficient pursuit of “fiscal consolidation”. To understand this double puzzle this article investigates the institutional bases of alternative economic thinking during the 1930s versus the post-2008 crisis years. Noting the recent prominence of a new social type, the European e…
Political Parties and the Sociological Imagination: Past, Present, and Future Directions
The classical sociology of parties was born alongside parties themselves. It explored their dynamic interrelationships with states and society, as well as the tensions inherent in the fact that parties are simultaneously representatives and power seekers. Despite these rich foundations, from the 1960s the sociological approach came to be narrowly identified with a one-dimensional conception of parties, and political sociologists focused their att…
Building Europe on a Weak Field: Law, Economics, and Scholarly Avatars in Transnational Politics
The present article mobilizes the concepts of "weak field" and "avatar" to explain Europe's historically variable meanings, analyzing two successful reinventions (as a "community of law" and a "single market") and one failure ("social Europe"). Focusing on law and economics, the authors first show that the weak field of EU studies serves as a crossroads between nationally anchored scholarly professions and Europe's political field; second, they s…
What's Left of Leftism: Neoliberal Politics in Western Party Systems, 1945–2004
A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a global age. Yet how to understand neoliberalism as a specifically political thing, especially in the unlikely terrains of Western European and leftist politics, is unclear. This article mobilizes field theory to conceptualize and investigate neoliberal politics in W…
What's Left of Leftism: Neoliberal Politics in Western Party Systems, 1945-2004
A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a global age. Yet how to understand neoliberalism as a specifically political thing, especially in the unlikely terrains of Western European and leftist politics, is unclear. This article mobilizes field theory to conceptualize and investigate neoliberal politics in W…
Elite Sociologists and the Sociology of Elites
Books reviewed: Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action Bourdieu, Pierre (London and New York: Verso, 2008 (2002)) European Integration as an Elite Process: The Failure of a Dream? Haller, Max , (New York and London: Routledge, 2008)
Cultural Overstretch? Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey
What is neo-liberalism
Neo-liberalism is an oft-invoked but ill-defined concept in the social sciences. This article conceptualizes neo-liberalism as a sui generis ideological system born of struggle and collaboration in three worlds: intellectual, bureaucratic and political. Emphasizing neo-liberalism's third 'face', it argues that a failure to grasp neo-liberalism as a political form imposes two limitations on understanding its effects: (i) fostering an implicit assu…
What is neo-liberalism
Neo-liberalism is an oft-invoked but ill-defined concept in the social sciences. This article conceptualizes neo-liberalism as a sui generis ideological system born of struggle and collaboration in three worlds: intellectual, bureaucratic and political. Emphasizing neo-liberalism's third 'face', it argues that a failure to grasp neo-liberalism as a political form imposes two limitations on understanding its effects: (i) fostering an implicit assu…
Building Europe on a Weak Field: Law, Economics, and Scholarly Avatars in Transnational Politics
The present article mobilizes the concepts of "weak field" and "avatar" to explain Europe's historically variable meanings, analyzing two successful reinventions (as a "community of law" and a "single market") and one failure ("social Europe"). Focusing on law and economics, the authors first show that the weak field of EU studies serves as a crossroads between nationally anchored scholarly professions and Europe's political field; second, they s…
Political Parties and the Sociological Imagination: Past, Present, and Future Directions
The classical sociology of parties was born alongside parties themselves. It explored their dynamic interrelationships with states and society, as well as the tensions inherent in the fact that parties are simultaneously representatives and power seekers. Despite these rich foundations, from the 1960s the sociological approach came to be narrowly identified with a one-dimensional conception of parties, and political sociologists focused their att…
Fielding supranationalism: The European Central Bank as a field effect
Fielding Supranationalism: The European Central Bank as a Field Effect
The European Central Bank (ECB), like all European institutions, poses basic problems of definition and comparability. Mobilizing Bourdieusian field theory (BFT) to resolve them, we map out the ECB's deep investments in scientific prestige and scholarly productivity – that is, its hyper-scientization – and the ambiguities therein, and then set out to explain them. Mobilizing diverse sources that include official documents, on-site interviews, and…
Movement to market, currency to property: The rise and fall of Bitcoin as an anti-state movement, 2009-2014
Can social movements mobilize market devices to challenge the political-economic order? Focusing on Bitcoin, we argue that an effective anti-state market device needs to be durably 'counterearmarked', to use Viviana Zelizer's term, with radical meaning. This durability, however, requires that the movement build alliances with holders of political and economic power who also embrace the device's radical meaning, lest those actors reformat the devi…
Explaining Political Tunnel Vision: Politics and Economics in Crisis-Ridden Europe, Then and Now
The grip of austerity in European politics since 2008 presents a double puzzle: electorally weak center-left parties offering no definite alternative, and the surprisingly efficient pursuit of “fiscal consolidation”. To understand this double puzzle this article investigates the institutional bases of alternative economic thinking during the 1930s versus the post-2008 crisis years. Noting the recent prominence of a new social type, the European e…
What's Left of Leftism: Neoliberal Politics in Western Party Systems, 1945–2004
A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a global age. Yet how to understand neoliberalism as a specifically political thing, especially in the unlikely terrains of Western European and leftist politics, is unclear. This article mobilizes field theory to conceptualize and investigate neoliberal politics in W…
Dependence on independence: Central bank lawyers and the (un)making of the European economy
We analyse the trajectory of independence in the formation of the European Central Bank (ECB), conceptualized as a boundary organization that, by delineating the European economy, contributes to a supranational state effect. Success in the effort, however, requires the ECB to constantly assert a separate and special status, despite its embeddedness in multiple fields. Focusing on the European Monetary Institute, the ECB's predecessor, we trace ho…
Anything but Inevitable: How the Marshall Plan Became Possible
Historians typically explain the Marshall Plan (1948-52) as an effect of a bipartisan embrace of liberal internationalism, which became the dominant ideology of US foreign policy. However, predominant accounts downplay interpretive contention, historical contingencies, and counterfactual possibilities that are very much in evidence. There was no bipartisan liberal internationalist consensus immediately after World War II; indeed, there were no 'l…
What's Left of Leftism: Neoliberal Politics in Western Party Systems, 1945-2004
A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a global age. Yet how to understand neoliberalism as a specifically political thing, especially in the unlikely terrains of Western European and leftist politics, is unclear. This article mobilizes field theory to conceptualize and investigate neoliberal politics in W…
What is neo-liberalism
Neo-liberalism is an oft-invoked but ill-defined concept in the social sciences. This article conceptualizes neo-liberalism as a sui generis ideological system born of struggle and collaboration in three worlds: intellectual, bureaucratic and political. Emphasizing neo-liberalism's third 'face', it argues that a failure to grasp neo-liberalism as a political form imposes two limitations on understanding its effects: (i) fostering an implicit assu…
Elite Sociologists and the Sociology of Elites
Books reviewed: Political Interventions: Social Science and Political Action Bourdieu, Pierre (London and New York: Verso, 2008 (2002)) European Integration as an Elite Process: The Failure of a Dream? Haller, Max , (New York and London: Routledge, 2008)
Cultural Overstretch? Differences Between Old and New Member States of the EU and Turkey
What's Left of Leftism: Neoliberal Politics in Western Party Systems, 1945–2004
A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a global age. Yet how to understand neoliberalism as a specifically political thing, especially in the unlikely terrains of Western European and leftist politics, is unclear. This article mobilizes field theory to conceptualize and investigate neoliberal politics in W…
What's Left of Leftism: Neoliberal Politics in Western Party Systems, 1945-2004
A novel brand of laissez-faire that lay outside the political mainstream in the early postwar years was broadly hailed at the dawn of the twenty-first century as the common sense of a global age. Yet how to understand neoliberalism as a specifically political thing, especially in the unlikely terrains of Western European and leftist politics, is unclear. This article mobilizes field theory to conceptualize and investigate neoliberal politics in W…
Building Europe on a Weak Field: Law, Economics, and Scholarly Avatars in Transnational Politics
The present article mobilizes the concepts of "weak field" and "avatar" to explain Europe's historically variable meanings, analyzing two successful reinventions (as a "community of law" and a "single market") and one failure ("social Europe"). Focusing on law and economics, the authors first show that the weak field of EU studies serves as a crossroads between nationally anchored scholarly professions and Europe's political field; second, they s…
Political Parties and the Sociological Imagination: Past, Present, and Future Directions
The classical sociology of parties was born alongside parties themselves. It explored their dynamic interrelationships with states and society, as well as the tensions inherent in the fact that parties are simultaneously representatives and power seekers. Despite these rich foundations, from the 1960s the sociological approach came to be narrowly identified with a one-dimensional conception of parties, and political sociologists focused their att…
Explaining Political Tunnel Vision: Politics and Economics in Crisis-Ridden Europe, Then and Now
The grip of austerity in European politics since 2008 presents a double puzzle: electorally weak center-left parties offering no definite alternative, and the surprisingly efficient pursuit of “fiscal consolidation”. To understand this double puzzle this article investigates the institutional bases of alternative economic thinking during the 1930s versus the post-2008 crisis years. Noting the recent prominence of a new social type, the European e…
Fielding supranationalism: The European Central Bank as a field effect
Fielding Supranationalism: The European Central Bank as a Field Effect
The European Central Bank (ECB), like all European institutions, poses basic problems of definition and comparability. Mobilizing Bourdieusian field theory (BFT) to resolve them, we map out the ECB's deep investments in scientific prestige and scholarly productivity – that is, its hyper-scientization – and the ambiguities therein, and then set out to explain them. Mobilizing diverse sources that include official documents, on-site interviews, and…
The National Origins of Policy Ideas: Knowledge Regimes in the United States, France, Germany, and Denmark
Can Government-By-Market be Democratized? - Sylvain Laurens, Lobbyists and Bureaucrats in Brussels: Capitalism’s Brokers (Routledge, 2018)
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Leftism Reinvented: Western Parties from Socialism to Neoliberalism
Analyzing left-leaning parties in the U.S., Sweden, Germany, and the United Kingdom, Stephanie Mudge shows that the left lost voters’ loyalty in part because of the changing worldview of party experts. Keynesian economists in the 1960s who spoke for managing the economy gave way in the 1980s to economists advocating the advancement of markets
Movement to market, currency to property: The rise and fall of Bitcoin as an anti-state movement, 2009-2014
Can social movements mobilize market devices to challenge the political-economic order? Focusing on Bitcoin, we argue that an effective anti-state market device needs to be durably 'counterearmarked', to use Viviana Zelizer's term, with radical meaning. This durability, however, requires that the movement build alliances with holders of political and economic power who also embrace the device's radical meaning, lest those actors reformat the devi…
For a First-Person Political Economy: A Comment on Michael McCarthy'sDismantling Solidarity
How Labour Built Neoliberalism: Australia's Accord, the Labour Movement and the Neoliberal Project
Dependence on independence: Central bank lawyers and the (un)making of the European economy
We analyse the trajectory of independence in the formation of the European Central Bank (ECB), conceptualized as a boundary organization that, by delineating the European economy, contributes to a supranational state effect. Success in the effort, however, requires the ECB to constantly assert a separate and special status, despite its embeddedness in multiple fields. Focusing on the European Monetary Institute, the ECB's predecessor, we trace ho…
The Ethics of Seeing Historically: Past, Present, and Future in Dark Times
Anything but Inevitable: How the Marshall Plan Became Possible
Historians typically explain the Marshall Plan (1948-52) as an effect of a bipartisan embrace of liberal internationalism, which became the dominant ideology of US foreign policy. However, predominant accounts downplay interpretive contention, historical contingencies, and counterfactual possibilities that are very much in evidence. There was no bipartisan liberal internationalist consensus immediately after World War II; indeed, there were no 'l…
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