Wade Jacoby
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 331792 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Wade Jacoby |
| PRENOMES | Wade |
| SOBRENOME | Jacoby |
| ASSINATURA | JACOBY W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Brigham Young University |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 383 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1997 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
The Epistemics of Populism and the Politics of Uncertainty
This paper discusses epistemic aspects of populism – especially its link with radical uncertainty and the tribal construction of facts – that have so far received relatively little attention. We argue that populism is less a backward-looking phenomenon feeding off existing grievances than a narrative-based reaction to an increasingly unsettled future. Many economic factors isolated as causes of populism – especially rapid technological innovation…
From lever to club? Conditionality in the European Union during the financial crisis
How did the European Union come to develop so many instruments of conditionality during the Eurozone debt crisis, despite the well-documented limitations of such measures in other contexts? This article argues that major EU actors – Council, Commission, and Central Bank – were influenced by their own recent and positive experiences with conditionality, especially in the EU's enlargement in the early 2000s and the early phase of the global financi…
Surplus Germany
This article privileges an institutional explanation rooted in the financial sector for the persistent German trade surpluses of the past 15 years. Specifically, it explains the disruptive consequences of a long-running stagnation in domestic investment in combination with rising German savings, particularly from corporate and government actors. It links these outcomes primarily to policy changes in the early and mid-2000s. The article also offer…
Grand Coalitions and Democratic Dysfunction
Are ‘grand coalitions’ – coalitions that include the two largest parties in a parliamentary system – good or bad for democracy? This article analyses that question in light of the recent rise of populist parties that large mainstream parties may try to exclude from government by forming grand coalitions with other large mainstream parties. I call this the ‘sterilization’ logic and note that mainstream parties’ ability to do this varies widely. Wh…
Lean, Special, or Consensual? Vulnerability and External Buffering in the Small States of East-Central Europe
Publication date: January 1, 2017
Vulnerability and Economic Re-orientation
To what extent do Euroskeptic parties in Eastern and Central Europe have viable alternatives to the European Union and the broad basket of liberal policies promoted by the EU? In recent years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used his overwhelming parliamentary majorities to chart a partially new course, and this article inventories one aspect of this new course. The article asks whether Hungary can gain any potential benefits from close…
Breaking up is hard to do’
The Politics of the Eurozone Crisis
This article offers a corrective to the notion that German ordoliberal ideology is the key to understanding German policy behavior during the Eurocrisis and, by extension, to the contours of the electoral debate in fall 2013. First, it shows that ordoliberal thought underdetermines policy choices. That is, different actors clearly influenced by ordoliberal thinking and often stressing different aspects of the broader ordoliberal cannon are arguin…
Eastern Enlargement Ten Years On
This introduction summarizes the findings of nine research articles that examine the consequences of the European Union's eastern enlargement ten years on. The volume reaches three surprising conclusions: since 2004, the EU's economic effects have been more far‐reaching than its political effects; all of the new Member States (NMS) have had problems with democratic consolidation; and, despite four years of intense crisis in the eurozone, both the…
The EU Factor in Fat Times and in Lean
This article describes the EU's impact on economic performance in the new Member States since the advent of membership. It first deals with the EU's role in promoting the economic boom that marked the region up to 2007, emphasizing the role of the single market and of the EU in anchoring and encouraging economic policy liberalization. The second section investigates the EU role in buffering the bust that occurred after 2007, looking at structural…
Immigration and the Transformation of American Unionism
Does immigration hamper union organizing in the United States? The prevailing literature strongly suggests that it does and for two reasons: first, immigrants increase the labor pool and diminish union influence over the labor market. And second, immigrants may be harder to organize than native workers. In this dominant view, unions are well served to restrict immigration and have always done so. But how, then, to explain the fact that American l…
Managing globalization by managing Central and Eastern Europe
As European voters and politicians increasingly demanded in the 1990s that the European Union (EU) ‘manage’ globalization, managing the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe (CE) emerged as an important precursor. To richer areas like the old EU-15, poor areas next door often appear as both threat and opportunity. Some EU-15 actors – mostly corporations, but also many European liberals – saw in CE a chance for new markets, new workers a…
Europe and the management of globalization
European policy-makers often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. We argue that the advocacy of managed globalization is more than a rhetorical device and indeed has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies over the past 25 years. We sketch the outlines of the concept of managed globalization, raise broad questions about its extent, and describe five major mechanisms through which it has been pursued: (1) expanding…
Success in slow motion
Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions
In this paper, we identify authority as an important dimension of variance among international institutions. Essentially, the greater the authority of international institutions, the more sovereignty states have yielded to them. Highly authoritative institutions can make decisions that legally bind domestic governments on specified issues even without those governments’ consent. Over the past 20 years, scholars have viewed the evolution of intern…
Modernization, Identity and Integration
German Federalism in Transition
Federalism, according to Daniel Elazar, one of the leading scholars on the subject, ‘is rather like wanting to have one's cake and eat it too’.1 By this, Elazar highlights the tension between the n
Side Payments over Solidarity
What happens when governments that have benefited from ‘solidarity’ programs to redistribute money from richer to poorer states are faced with the prospect of being redefined as a ‘richer state’ themselves? After communism, such a situation has confronted the traditionally poorer states of Western Germany and the traditionally poorer nations of the European Union. Yet funding was far more generous in the East German case than in the Central and E…
How agents matter
In spite of the growing sophistication of the principal-agent (PA) literature, it still contains a remarkably thin view of agent behavior. That is, PA theorists have made surprisingly few direct claims about agents. Almost twenty years after it was written, Williamson's (1985: 30) pithy formulation – that agents are “self-interest seeking with guile” – remains the classic statement, and most current formulations do not go far beyond it. Mainly, t…
Is the New Europe a Good Substitute for the Old One?26
NATO has long provided a military framework for mutual defense against external aggressors. It may not do so much longer. At least since the 1990s, NATO has also provided for united efforts to punish rogue leaders or bring peace to war-torn regions. This contribution of NATO may also be in danger. Collective defense and peace enforcement are valuable resources and ones that would be difficult to replace—or to rebuild. In order to pursue either co…
Inspiration, Coalition, and Substitution
There has been a recent explosion of interest in the external influences on the political and economic transformations of postcommunist states. This article consolidates several analytical advances in this literature and distills three main functions of external actors, namely, to lengthen the time horizons ofpostcommunist politicians, to expand the circle of interested reformers, and t o deter opponents of reform. The article argues that a focus…
The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress
Can the political institutions of the transatlantic alliance endure the demise of the Soviet enemy? Did the Iraq crisis of 2002–3 signal the final demise of the Atlantic partnership? If so, what are the likely consequences? In this book a distinguished group of political scientists and historians from Europe and the United States tackle these questions. The book examines the causes and consequences of the crisis in Atlantic relations that accompa…
Governance in Contemporary Germany
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this success to a combination of a fragmented polity, consensus politics and incremental policy changes. However, unification in 1990 has both changed Germany's institutional configuration and created ec…
The Enlargement of the European Union and Nato
In 2004 the European Union and NATO each added ten new member states, most from the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In order to prepare for membership, these countries had to make many thousands of institutional and legal adjustments. Indeed, they often tried to modernize in just a few years, implementing practices that evolved over many decades in Western Europe. This book emphasizes the way that policy elites in Central …
Imitation and Politics, Redesigning Modern Germany
Following World War II, a poorly funded, piecemeal effort to transfer British and American institutions into West Germany resulted in many positive changes for that nation's citizens. After reunification, however, a more ambitious, well-funded and systematic effort to establish West German institutions in the former GDR has been less effective. Through an analysis of these two cases, the author explores the conditions under which one society can …
Inspiration, Coalition, and Substitution
There has been a recent explosion of interest in the external influences on the political and economic transformations of postcommunist states. This article consolidates several analytical advances in this literature and distills three main functions of external actors, namely, to lengthen the time horizons ofpostcommunist politicians, to expand the circle of interested reformers, and t o deter opponents of reform. The article argues that a focus…
Eastern Enlargement Ten Years On
This introduction summarizes the findings of nine research articles that examine the consequences of the European Union's eastern enlargement ten years on. The volume reaches three surprising conclusions: since 2004, the EU's economic effects have been more far‐reaching than its political effects; all of the new Member States (NMS) have had problems with democratic consolidation; and, despite four years of intense crisis in the eurozone, both the…
Europe and the management of globalization
European policy-makers often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. We argue that the advocacy of managed globalization is more than a rhetorical device and indeed has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies over the past 25 years. We sketch the outlines of the concept of managed globalization, raise broad questions about its extent, and describe five major mechanisms through which it has been pursued: (1) expanding…
Tutors and Pupils
In the past decade, political elites in Central and Eastern Europe have often sought to imitate Western organizational and institutional models, while organizations like the EU and NATO have often acted as “institutional tutors” in the region. Using evidence from Hungary and the Czech Republic, this paper demonstrates why imitating Western structures has been both administratively expedient and useful in building political coalitions. It also str…
Managing globalization by managing Central and Eastern Europe
As European voters and politicians increasingly demanded in the 1990s that the European Union (EU) ‘manage’ globalization, managing the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe (CE) emerged as an important precursor. To richer areas like the old EU-15, poor areas next door often appear as both threat and opportunity. Some EU-15 actors – mostly corporations, but also many European liberals – saw in CE a chance for new markets, new workers a…
From lever to club? Conditionality in the European Union during the financial crisis
How did the European Union come to develop so many instruments of conditionality during the Eurozone debt crisis, despite the well-documented limitations of such measures in other contexts? This article argues that major EU actors – Council, Commission, and Central Bank – were influenced by their own recent and positive experiences with conditionality, especially in the EU's enlargement in the early 2000s and the early phase of the global financi…
The EU Factor in Fat Times and in Lean
This article describes the EU's impact on economic performance in the new Member States since the advent of membership. It first deals with the EU's role in promoting the economic boom that marked the region up to 2007, emphasizing the role of the single market and of the EU in anchoring and encouraging economic policy liberalization. The second section investigates the EU role in buffering the bust that occurred after 2007, looking at structural…
The Politics of the Eurozone Crisis
This article offers a corrective to the notion that German ordoliberal ideology is the key to understanding German policy behavior during the Eurocrisis and, by extension, to the contours of the electoral debate in fall 2013. First, it shows that ordoliberal thought underdetermines policy choices. That is, different actors clearly influenced by ordoliberal thinking and often stressing different aspects of the broader ordoliberal cannon are arguin…
Vulnerability and Economic Re-orientation
To what extent do Euroskeptic parties in Eastern and Central Europe have viable alternatives to the European Union and the broad basket of liberal policies promoted by the EU? In recent years, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has used his overwhelming parliamentary majorities to chart a partially new course, and this article inventories one aspect of this new course. The article asks whether Hungary can gain any potential benefits from close…
German Federalism in Transition
Federalism, according to Daniel Elazar, one of the leading scholars on the subject, ‘is rather like wanting to have one's cake and eat it too’.1 By this, Elazar highlights the tension between the n
Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions
In this paper, we identify authority as an important dimension of variance among international institutions. Essentially, the greater the authority of international institutions, the more sovereignty states have yielded to them. Highly authoritative institutions can make decisions that legally bind domestic governments on specified issues even without those governments’ consent. Over the past 20 years, scholars have viewed the evolution of intern…
Surplus Germany
This article privileges an institutional explanation rooted in the financial sector for the persistent German trade surpluses of the past 15 years. Specifically, it explains the disruptive consequences of a long-running stagnation in domestic investment in combination with rising German savings, particularly from corporate and government actors. It links these outcomes primarily to policy changes in the early and mid-2000s. The article also offer…
Grand Coalitions and Democratic Dysfunction
Are ‘grand coalitions’ – coalitions that include the two largest parties in a parliamentary system – good or bad for democracy? This article analyses that question in light of the recent rise of populist parties that large mainstream parties may try to exclude from government by forming grand coalitions with other large mainstream parties. I call this the ‘sterilization’ logic and note that mainstream parties’ ability to do this varies widely. Wh…
Lean, Special, or Consensual? Vulnerability and External Buffering in the Small States of East-Central Europe
Publication date: January 1, 2017
The Dilemmas of Diffusion
The Epistemics of Populism and the Politics of Uncertainty
This paper discusses epistemic aspects of populism – especially its link with radical uncertainty and the tribal construction of facts – that have so far received relatively little attention. We argue that populism is less a backward-looking phenomenon feeding off existing grievances than a narrative-based reaction to an increasingly unsettled future. Many economic factors isolated as causes of populism – especially rapid technological innovation…
Patch-work solidarity
This paper describes and explains the broad patterns of union internationalism championed by Europe and US labour unions. Descriptively, historical evidence reveals that cross-national organizing and cooperation among US and European unions vary most significantly on three dimensions: (1) despite being modest and taking a back-seat to national priorities, both US and European unions have meaningfully increased their cross-border ties since the 19…
Is the New Europe a Good Substitute for the Old One?26
NATO has long provided a military framework for mutual defense against external aggressors. It may not do so much longer. At least since the 1990s, NATO has also provided for united efforts to punish rogue leaders or bring peace to war-torn regions. This contribution of NATO may also be in danger. Collective defense and peace enforcement are valuable resources and ones that would be difficult to replace—or to rebuild. In order to pursue either co…
Immigration and the Transformation of American Unionism
Does immigration hamper union organizing in the United States? The prevailing literature strongly suggests that it does and for two reasons: first, immigrants increase the labor pool and diminish union influence over the labor market. And second, immigrants may be harder to organize than native workers. In this dominant view, unions are well served to restrict immigration and have always done so. But how, then, to explain the fact that American l…
The Imitation-innovation Trade-off
This article examines the proposition that there is a trade-off between imitation and innovation when state elites try to “borrow” institutional designs from other polities. After synthesizing theoretical propositions both for and against a trade-off, the article develops evidence from case studies of two periods in which such institutional borrowing was widely practiced: the post-World War II American occupation of Germany and German reunificati…
Breaking up is hard to do’
Modernization, Identity and Integration
Side Payments over Solidarity
What happens when governments that have benefited from ‘solidarity’ programs to redistribute money from richer to poorer states are faced with the prospect of being redefined as a ‘richer state’ themselves? After communism, such a situation has confronted the traditionally poorer states of Western Germany and the traditionally poorer nations of the European Union. Yet funding was far more generous in the East German case than in the Central and E…
The Dilemmas of Diffusion
Exemplars, Analogies, and Menus
This article evaluates three provocative cross‐regional comparisons that use Eastern European cases. It begins by defending such comparisons against serious objections emphasizing Leninist legacies. Books by Offe, Greskovits, and Henderson et. al. form the foundation for a discussion of comparisons to the Eastern German, Latin American, and East Asian NIC cases, respectively. The different comparative approaches are assessed with reference to thr…
Germany in Transition
Tutors and Pupils
In the past decade, political elites in Central and Eastern Europe have often sought to imitate Western organizational and institutional models, while organizations like the EU and NATO have often acted as “institutional tutors” in the region. Using evidence from Hungary and the Czech Republic, this paper demonstrates why imitating Western structures has been both administratively expedient and useful in building political coalitions. It also str…
Imitation and Politics
The Imitation-innovation Trade-off
This article examines the proposition that there is a trade-off between imitation and innovation when state elites try to “borrow” institutional designs from other polities. After synthesizing theoretical propositions both for and against a trade-off, the article develops evidence from case studies of two periods in which such institutional borrowing was widely practiced: the post-World War II American occupation of Germany and German reunificati…
Experimentalism as a Tool of Economic Innovation in Germany
Our purpose in this article is to analyze changes in the German wagebargaining system, a system that has attracted enormous attentionfrom scholars of comparative political economy and comparativeindustrial relations. We argue that the wage bargaining portion ofthe German model is neither frozen in place, headed for deregulation,nor merely "muddling through." Rather, we see the institutionalcapacities of the key actors-especially the unions and em…
Learning and Work in the Risk Society
Dedication Acknowledgements Introduction Looking East Perspectives, Plans and Methods Systems Under Strain: Labour Market Conditions and Training Options From 'Old' to 'New': Continuities and Discontinuities as Experienced by a Group of Trainers Labour Market Structures and the Processes of Transition Smooth Transitions: Young Adults' Experience of Vocational Education and Work Entry Broken Transitions Risky Voyages: Learning Experiences, Transit…
The Enlargement of the European Union and Nato
In 2004 the European Union and NATO each added ten new member states, most from the post-communist countries of Eastern and Central Europe. In order to prepare for membership, these countries had to make many thousands of institutional and legal adjustments. Indeed, they often tried to modernize in just a few years, implementing practices that evolved over many decades in Western Europe. This book emphasizes the way that policy elites in Central …
Imitation and Politics, Redesigning Modern Germany
Following World War II, a poorly funded, piecemeal effort to transfer British and American institutions into West Germany resulted in many positive changes for that nation's citizens. After reunification, however, a more ambitious, well-funded and systematic effort to establish West German institutions in the former GDR has been less effective. Through an analysis of these two cases, the author explores the conditions under which one society can …
Patch-work solidarity
This paper describes and explains the broad patterns of union internationalism championed by Europe and US labour unions. Descriptively, historical evidence reveals that cross-national organizing and cooperation among US and European unions vary most significantly on three dimensions: (1) despite being modest and taking a back-seat to national priorities, both US and European unions have meaningfully increased their cross-border ties since the 19…
The Atlantic Alliance Under Stress
Can the political institutions of the transatlantic alliance endure the demise of the Soviet enemy? Did the Iraq crisis of 2002–3 signal the final demise of the Atlantic partnership? If so, what are the likely consequences? In this book a distinguished group of political scientists and historians from Europe and the United States tackle these questions. The book examines the causes and consequences of the crisis in Atlantic relations that accompa…
Governance in Contemporary Germany
Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, West Germany was considered to be one of the world's most successful economic and political systems. In his seminal 1987 analysis of West Germany's 'semisovereign' system of governance, Peter Katzenstein attributed this success to a combination of a fragmented polity, consensus politics and incremental policy changes. However, unification in 1990 has both changed Germany's institutional configuration and created ec…
How agents matter
In spite of the growing sophistication of the principal-agent (PA) literature, it still contains a remarkably thin view of agent behavior. That is, PA theorists have made surprisingly few direct claims about agents. Almost twenty years after it was written, Williamson's (1985: 30) pithy formulation – that agents are “self-interest seeking with guile” – remains the classic statement, and most current formulations do not go far beyond it. Mainly, t…
Is the New Europe a Good Substitute for the Old One?26
NATO has long provided a military framework for mutual defense against external aggressors. It may not do so much longer. At least since the 1990s, NATO has also provided for united efforts to punish rogue leaders or bring peace to war-torn regions. This contribution of NATO may also be in danger. Collective defense and peace enforcement are valuable resources and ones that would be difficult to replace—or to rebuild. In order to pursue either co…
Inspiration, Coalition, and Substitution
There has been a recent explosion of interest in the external influences on the political and economic transformations of postcommunist states. This article consolidates several analytical advances in this literature and distills three main functions of external actors, namely, to lengthen the time horizons ofpostcommunist politicians, to expand the circle of interested reformers, and t o deter opponents of reform. The article argues that a focus…
Yielding Sovereignty to International Institutions
In this paper, we identify authority as an important dimension of variance among international institutions. Essentially, the greater the authority of international institutions, the more sovereignty states have yielded to them. Highly authoritative institutions can make decisions that legally bind domestic governments on specified issues even without those governments’ consent. Over the past 20 years, scholars have viewed the evolution of intern…
Modernization, Identity and Integration
German Federalism in Transition
Federalism, according to Daniel Elazar, one of the leading scholars on the subject, ‘is rather like wanting to have one's cake and eat it too’.1 By this, Elazar highlights the tension between the n
Side Payments over Solidarity
What happens when governments that have benefited from ‘solidarity’ programs to redistribute money from richer to poorer states are faced with the prospect of being redefined as a ‘richer state’ themselves? After communism, such a situation has confronted the traditionally poorer states of Western Germany and the traditionally poorer nations of the European Union. Yet funding was far more generous in the East German case than in the Central and E…
Success in slow motion
Immigration and the Transformation of American Unionism
Does immigration hamper union organizing in the United States? The prevailing literature strongly suggests that it does and for two reasons: first, immigrants increase the labor pool and diminish union influence over the labor market. And second, immigrants may be harder to organize than native workers. In this dominant view, unions are well served to restrict immigration and have always done so. But how, then, to explain the fact that American l…
Managing globalization by managing Central and Eastern Europe
As European voters and politicians increasingly demanded in the 1990s that the European Union (EU) ‘manage’ globalization, managing the new member states of Central and Eastern Europe (CE) emerged as an important precursor. To richer areas like the old EU-15, poor areas next door often appear as both threat and opportunity. Some EU-15 actors – mostly corporations, but also many European liberals – saw in CE a chance for new markets, new workers a…
Europe and the management of globalization
European policy-makers often speak of their efforts to 'manage globalization'. We argue that the advocacy of managed globalization is more than a rhetorical device and indeed has been a primary driver of major European Union (EU) policies over the past 25 years. We sketch the outlines of the concept of managed globalization, raise broad questions about its extent, and describe five major mechanisms through which it has been pursued: (1) expanding…
Breaking up is hard to do’
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