Paul Cammack
Biographic Data
| ID | 264900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul Cammack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul |
| FAMILY NAME | Cammack |
| SIGNATURE | CAMMACK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Manchester |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4549-5636 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 277 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 41 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
The political economy of post-reproduction society
The Political Economy of Southeast Asia: Politics and Uneven Development under Hyperglobalisation
There have been three previous editions of the “Murdoch School” Political Economy of Southeast Asia, all edited by Garry Rodan, Kevin Hewison, and Richard Robison, with the subtitles An introductio
Christian values in education: Teachers in India narrate the impact of their faith and values on practice
India’s education system is complex because it has to meet the needs of a population which is culturally, geographically, politically, religiously and economically diverse. The principal investigator spent two summers in India talking with teachers and learners. This paper reports on the impact of Christian values in the secular but arguably Hindu nationalist education system. Working within an interpretivist paradigm and through an ethnographic …
Marx on Social Reproduction
Marx is generally reckoned to have had too little to say about what has come to be defined as ‘social reproduction’, largely as a consequence of too narrow a focus on industrial production, and a relative disregard for issues of gender. This paper argues in contrast that the approach he developed with Engels and in Capital , Volume 1, provides a powerful framework for its analysis. After an introductory discussion of recent literature on social r…
Reproduction Versus Transformation: The Case of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank
This article offers a constructive critique of Fehl and Freistein's argument that international organisations (IOs) significantly affect international stratification, either producing, reproducing or transforming inequality. It suggests that without reference to the specific purposes which individual IOs pursue and the forces driving global change, it is impossible to predict either when the goals of IOs and states might diverge, or when a partic…
Why are some people better off than others?
This chapter looks at the comparative picture, bringing in other rich industrial countries, and a group of developing economies. It explores some of the different explanations for, and attitudes towards this growing global inequality, and the larger questions it provokes. There is nothing new about inequality between societies and individuals. It is and always has been a defining feature of global politics. Measuring and comparing inequality in a…
The OECD and the world market: Antecedents of deep marketization
This paper documents the commitment of the OECD from its creation in 1961 to the continuous development of the world market along liberal lines. In doing so, it details a significant effort to promote what might be called proto-strategies of deep marketization across its ‘Northern’ advanced economy membership. These were articulated at key junctures: in its earliest years, then in response to the rise of the NICs (Newly Industrialized Countries) …
Towards a new global gender order? Gendered States of Punishment and Welfare: Feminist Political Economy, Primitive Accumulation and the Law
World Market Regionalism at the Asian Development Bank
Accounts of the "new regionalism" two decades ago identified a growing trend towards co-ordinated state action at the regional level in pursuit of both security and political economy concerns – new in terms of its "bottom-up" character, post-Cold War logic, heterogeneous focus, and relation to globalisation. More recently, proponents of "regulatory regionalism" have suggested that regional projects reshape and transform states themselves. This ar…
Response to Mimi Sheller, “The vital materiality of aluminum: Light modernity and the global Atlantic”
The G20, the Crisis, and the Rise of Global Developmental Liberalism
The emergence of the G20 leaders' meeting during the recent global financial crisis as the ‘premier forum for international economic cooperation’ reflects a significant shift of hegemony over global governance towards the emerging economies but does not challenge the authority or objectives of the international financial institutions. On the contrary, successive G20 initiatives, culminating in the adoption of the Seoul Development Consensus for S…
Making Sense of Place: Multidisciplinary Perspectives
Risk, Social Protection and the World Market
This paper sees market building in Asia as part of the larger project of constructing a global market economy – a project which can be traced back to Adam Smith and, more recently, to the founding of a set of global liberal institutions in the post-World War II period. In the last two decades the global liberal impulse behind the creation of these institutions has gained momentum, in step with the emergence of a "world market" of genuinely global…
The Shape of Capitalism to Come
The starting point for this paper is the observation that a reshaping of global capitalism is underway, centred on the rise of dynamic centres of accumulation in Asia. It is argued that a critical understanding of this process (supported without reservation by such organizations as the IMF, the OECD and the World Bank) requires a questioning of the imagined link between “capitalism” and the “West”, and a recognition that the international organiz…
Global Governance, State Agency and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of the Commission for Africa
The Commission for Africa has been presented as a moral crusade, and linked by its proponents to the ‘anti-globalisation’ activism of such campaigns as ‘Make Poverty History’. But detailed analysis of the genesis and content of its report reveals direct continuity with EBRD and World Bank programmes from the 1990s onwards. It continues and extends a series of supranational initiatives aimed at endowing transitional and developing states with the …
What the World Bank means by poverty reduction, and why it matters
Focuses on the meaning of poverty reduction from the standpoint of the World Bank. Argument that while the bank's commitment to poverty reduction is real, it is conditional upon, and secondary, to a broader goal; Observation that the poverty reduction policy of the bank is the systematic transformation of social relations and institutions in the developing world, in order to generalize and facilitate proletarianization and capitalist accumulation…
The Governance of Global Capitalism: A New Materialist Perspective
Attacking the Poor
A close reading of the World Bank’s annual Development Reports through the nineties yields a step-by-step programme for world capitalist expansion. The ‘war on poverty’ as systematic assault on the poor
Making the Poor Work for Globalisation
The resurgence of populism in Latin America
Contemporary manifestations of "neopopulism" are situated in an analysis of the role of political institutions in capitalist societies, and the idea of structural and institutional crisis. It is argued that "populist" and "neopopulist" discourse alike must be understood in terms of their relationship to specific conjunctural projects for the reorientation of capitalist reproduction. This approach directs attention back to the contrasting conjunct…
Introduction: Asem and interregionalism
The second Asia‐Europe (ASEM) meeting took place in London in April 1998 in very different circumstances from the first, held in Bangkok in 1996. The Europeans had then been motivated to build stronger links with rising Asian interests, addressing the developmentalist states of the region as equal and perhaps superior partners. By the spring of 1998 the Asian financial crisis had transformed the situation, and ASEM II became a forum in which conf…
Interpreting Asem: Interregionalism and the new materialism
The new multilateralist framework for the analysis of interregionalism is assessed. The value of a culturally pluralist and ethically informed ‘bottom‐up’ alternative to the currently hegemonic ‘top‐down’ system shaped by globalization is affirmed. However, it is argued that a thorough critique of existing capitalist institutions must precede any attempt to devise an alternative approach, and a new materialist alternative to the new multilaterali…
Feature review
Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony William I. Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Globalization and the death of liberal democracy
It is doubtful as to whether the countries of the Third World are likely to move to the kind of liberal democracy that is regarded as characteristic of the West. In particular, parties are often remaining ‘parties of the State’ and not organizations truly competing with each other. This is in part a consequence of economic globalization, as the requirements of global economic liberalization do not fit with the requirements of democracy. In such a…
Political development theory and the dissemination of democracy
The relationship between political development theory and the dissemination of democracy is a curious one. In the period when political development theory was most influential, efforts to disseminate democracy throughout the Third World in line with its core values were notably unsuccessful. It later went into eclipse as a consequence of the failure of successive efforts at theory‐building, from functional, cultural and comparative historical per…
What the World Bank means by poverty reduction, and why it matters
Focuses on the meaning of poverty reduction from the standpoint of the World Bank. Argument that while the bank's commitment to poverty reduction is real, it is conditional upon, and secondary, to a broader goal; Observation that the poverty reduction policy of the bank is the systematic transformation of social relations and institutions in the developing world, in order to generalize and facilitate proletarianization and capitalist accumulation…
Bringing the State Back In
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Risk, Social Protection and the World Market
This paper sees market building in Asia as part of the larger project of constructing a global market economy – a project which can be traced back to Adam Smith and, more recently, to the founding of a set of global liberal institutions in the post-World War II period. In the last two decades the global liberal impulse behind the creation of these institutions has gained momentum, in step with the emergence of a "world market" of genuinely global…
The resurgence of populism in Latin America
Contemporary manifestations of "neopopulism" are situated in an analysis of the role of political institutions in capitalist societies, and the idea of structural and institutional crisis. It is argued that "populist" and "neopopulist" discourse alike must be understood in terms of their relationship to specific conjunctural projects for the reorientation of capitalist reproduction. This approach directs attention back to the contrasting conjunct…
The Governance of Global Capitalism: A New Materialist Perspective
The G20, the Crisis, and the Rise of Global Developmental Liberalism
The emergence of the G20 leaders' meeting during the recent global financial crisis as the ‘premier forum for international economic cooperation’ reflects a significant shift of hegemony over global governance towards the emerging economies but does not challenge the authority or objectives of the international financial institutions. On the contrary, successive G20 initiatives, culminating in the adoption of the Seoul Development Consensus for S…
The new institutionalism: Predatory Rule, Institutional Persistence,and Macro-Social Change
A renewed focus on institutions in a number of fields of social science has given rise to a variety two contrasing apporaches under the common label of the ‘new institutionalism’. This essay reviews two contrasting approaches which have claimed the name, one deriving from rational choice theory, the other from the rejection of rational choice theory in favour of a behavioural perspective. A sketch of the origins and character of these apporches i…
A Critical Assessment of the New Elite Paradigm
A critical evaluation of the new elite paradigm proposed by Field, Higley and Burton suggests that it is beset by a number ofproblems. Two issues are explored: the relationship between consensual unity among elites and political stability, and the role of elite settlements and two-step transformations as routes to consensual unity of elites. I argue that the proponents of the new paradigm fail to establish the priority of political explanations o…
Global Governance, State Agency and Competitiveness: The Political Economy of the Commission for Africa
The Commission for Africa has been presented as a moral crusade, and linked by its proponents to the ‘anti-globalisation’ activism of such campaigns as ‘Make Poverty History’. But detailed analysis of the genesis and content of its report reveals direct continuity with EBRD and World Bank programmes from the 1990s onwards. It continues and extends a series of supranational initiatives aimed at endowing transitional and developing states with the …
Marx on Social Reproduction
Marx is generally reckoned to have had too little to say about what has come to be defined as ‘social reproduction’, largely as a consequence of too narrow a focus on industrial production, and a relative disregard for issues of gender. This paper argues in contrast that the approach he developed with Engels and in Capital , Volume 1, provides a powerful framework for its analysis. After an introductory discussion of recent literature on social r…
Interpreting Asem: Interregionalism and the new materialism
The new multilateralist framework for the analysis of interregionalism is assessed. The value of a culturally pluralist and ethically informed ‘bottom‐up’ alternative to the currently hegemonic ‘top‐down’ system shaped by globalization is affirmed. However, it is argued that a thorough critique of existing capitalist institutions must precede any attempt to devise an alternative approach, and a new materialist alternative to the new multilaterali…
Making the Poor Work for Globalisation
World Market Regionalism at the Asian Development Bank
Accounts of the "new regionalism" two decades ago identified a growing trend towards co-ordinated state action at the regional level in pursuit of both security and political economy concerns – new in terms of its "bottom-up" character, post-Cold War logic, heterogeneous focus, and relation to globalisation. More recently, proponents of "regulatory regionalism" have suggested that regional projects reshape and transform states themselves. This ar…
Political development theory and the dissemination of democracy
The relationship between political development theory and the dissemination of democracy is a curious one. In the period when political development theory was most influential, efforts to disseminate democracy throughout the Third World in line with its core values were notably unsuccessful. It later went into eclipse as a consequence of the failure of successive efforts at theory‐building, from functional, cultural and comparative historical per…
Globalization and the death of liberal democracy
It is doubtful as to whether the countries of the Third World are likely to move to the kind of liberal democracy that is regarded as characteristic of the West. In particular, parties are often remaining ‘parties of the State’ and not organizations truly competing with each other. This is in part a consequence of economic globalization, as the requirements of global economic liberalization do not fit with the requirements of democracy. In such a…
The Shape of Capitalism to Come
The starting point for this paper is the observation that a reshaping of global capitalism is underway, centred on the rise of dynamic centres of accumulation in Asia. It is argued that a critical understanding of this process (supported without reservation by such organizations as the IMF, the OECD and the World Bank) requires a questioning of the imagined link between “capitalism” and the “West”, and a recognition that the international organiz…
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and Brazil: A Dissenting Note
The OECD and the world market: Antecedents of deep marketization
This paper documents the commitment of the OECD from its creation in 1961 to the continuous development of the world market along liberal lines. In doing so, it details a significant effort to promote what might be called proto-strategies of deep marketization across its ‘Northern’ advanced economy membership. These were articulated at key junctures: in its earliest years, then in response to the rise of the NICs (Newly Industrialized Countries) …
The Political Economy of the 'Politics of the States: Minas Gerais and the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1900
For most of the 1890s Brazilian state presidents and federal representatives of Minas Gerais lacked influence in federal politics. What had begun as a deliberate policy of neutrality and self-imposed isolation eventually became a position of weakness and internal division, made manifest when changing circumstances and perceptions induced a desire to re-assert the voice of the state at federal level. Antonio Olinto dos Santos Pires, at one time Mi…
Bureaucratic Authoritarianism and Brazil: A Dissenting Note
The Political Economy of the 'Politics of the States: Minas Gerais and the Brazilian Federation, 1889-1900
For most of the 1890s Brazilian state presidents and federal representatives of Minas Gerais lacked influence in federal politics. What had begun as a deliberate policy of neutrality and self-imposed isolation eventually became a position of weakness and internal division, made manifest when changing circumstances and perceptions induced a desire to re-assert the voice of the state at federal level. Antonio Olinto dos Santos Pires, at one time Mi…
The Workers' Movement and the Bolivian Revolution Reconsidered
Brazil: The Triumph of 'Savage Capitalism
The great majority of the articles reviewed here were published in 1982-1983 and are concerned with contemporary politics, economic development, and issues of public policy.1 Taken as a whole they provide a rounded and largely internally consistent account of the triumph of 'savage capitalism' in Brazil, and its social, political and cultural consequences. A further substantial group of articles dealing with the periods of the Empire and the Firs…
Democratisation: A Review of the Issues
Over the last decade there has been a strong and sustained movement towards democracy in South America. After periods of transition of varying duration, civilian regimes have replaced military rulers in Ecuador (1979), Peru (1980), Bolivia (1982), Argentina (1983), Uruguay (1985) and Brazil (1985). What is more, constitutional transfers of power have taken place after competitive elections in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru, with victory going to an op…
Resurgent Democracy: Threat and Promise
In ‘ “Resurgent Democracy”: Rhetoric and Reality’, nlr 154, Edward Herman and James Petras condemn us support for new democracies in South and Central America as hypocritical and opportunist. They also point out the wilful confusion involved in deliberately associating genuine democratization in South America with a
Military Rule in Chile: Dictatorship and Oppositions
Generals in Retreat: The Crisis of Military Rule in Latin America
Third Latin American Workshop on Popular Music
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Generals in Retreat: The Crisis of Military Rule in Latin America
Latin America
The ‘Brazilianization’ of Mexico
IN THE EARY 1970s, AT THE HEIGHT OF BRAZIL'S ‘ECONOMIC miracle’, the possibility was mooted by some within the regime of an evolution towards a stable authoritarian system based upon a permanent ruling party capable of governing by consent. The most immediate model in the Latin American context was the ruling Mexican Partido Revolucionario Institucional (Institutionalized Revolutionary Party); hence the term ‘Mexicanization’ to express this conce…
Bringing the State Back In
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
A Critical Assessment of the New Elite Paradigm
A critical evaluation of the new elite paradigm proposed by Field, Higley and Burton suggests that it is beset by a number ofproblems. Two issues are explored: the relationship between consensual unity among elites and political stability, and the role of elite settlements and two-step transformations as routes to consensual unity of elites. I argue that the proponents of the new paradigm fail to establish the priority of political explanations o…
Brazil: The Long March to the New Republic
At the end of 1989, Brazilians voted in direct presidential elections for the first time since the military seized power in 1964. After an inconclusive first round, victory in the second went to Fernando Collor, an independent conservative, by a small margin over Luis Inacio da Silva, universally
Two Communications Relative to Harold Blakemore
The new institutionalism: Predatory Rule, Institutional Persistence,and Macro-Social Change
A renewed focus on institutions in a number of fields of social science has given rise to a variety two contrasing apporaches under the common label of the ‘new institutionalism’. This essay reviews two contrasting approaches which have claimed the name, one deriving from rational choice theory, the other from the rejection of rational choice theory in favour of a behavioural perspective. A sketch of the origins and character of these apporches i…
Political development theory and the dissemination of democracy
The relationship between political development theory and the dissemination of democracy is a curious one. In the period when political development theory was most influential, efforts to disseminate democracy throughout the Third World in line with its core values were notably unsuccessful. It later went into eclipse as a consequence of the failure of successive efforts at theory‐building, from functional, cultural and comparative historical per…
Feature review
Promoting Polyarchy: Globalization, US Intervention, and Hegemony William I. Robinson (Cambridge University Press, 1996)
Globalization and the death of liberal democracy
It is doubtful as to whether the countries of the Third World are likely to move to the kind of liberal democracy that is regarded as characteristic of the West. In particular, parties are often remaining ‘parties of the State’ and not organizations truly competing with each other. This is in part a consequence of economic globalization, as the requirements of global economic liberalization do not fit with the requirements of democracy. In such a…
Introduction: Asem and interregionalism
The second Asia‐Europe (ASEM) meeting took place in London in April 1998 in very different circumstances from the first, held in Bangkok in 1996. The Europeans had then been motivated to build stronger links with rising Asian interests, addressing the developmentalist states of the region as equal and perhaps superior partners. By the spring of 1998 the Asian financial crisis had transformed the situation, and ASEM II became a forum in which conf…
Interpreting Asem: Interregionalism and the new materialism
The new multilateralist framework for the analysis of interregionalism is assessed. The value of a culturally pluralist and ethically informed ‘bottom‐up’ alternative to the currently hegemonic ‘top‐down’ system shaped by globalization is affirmed. However, it is argued that a thorough critique of existing capitalist institutions must precede any attempt to devise an alternative approach, and a new materialist alternative to the new multilaterali…
The resurgence of populism in Latin America
Contemporary manifestations of "neopopulism" are situated in an analysis of the role of political institutions in capitalist societies, and the idea of structural and institutional crisis. It is argued that "populist" and "neopopulist" discourse alike must be understood in terms of their relationship to specific conjunctural projects for the reorientation of capitalist reproduction. This approach directs attention back to the contrasting conjunct…
Making the Poor Work for Globalisation
Attacking the Poor
A close reading of the World Bank’s annual Development Reports through the nineties yields a step-by-step programme for world capitalist expansion. The ‘war on poverty’ as systematic assault on the poor
Political science (30 works) · Law (21 works) · Politics (21 works) · Economics (20 works) · Law (19 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Sociology (14 works) · International Development and Aid (10 works) · Democracy (8 works) · Economic system (7 works)