Blayne Haggart
Biographic Data
| ID | 3455879 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Blayne Haggart |
| GIVEN NAMES | Blayne |
| FAMILY NAME | Haggart |
| SIGNATURE | HAGGART B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Brock University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2866-264X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Strangely inspired: Recovering a neo-Strangean approach to power, authority and knowledge for IPE
The academic imprint of Susan Strange, long considered a pioneer in the field of IPE, no longer resonates with contemporary debates about the organization and structure of the global political economy. We argue that her analytical framework continues to be a productive way to think about important current developments, most importantly in relation to what can now be called the digital age and its emergent form of capitalism. We therefore modify a…
Infrastructure, smart cities and the knowledge economy: Lessons for policymakers from the Toronto Quayside project
Sidewalk Labs' Quayside project in Toronto demonstrates how information technologies are shaping cities' core governance functions. This article focuses on the rules governing decisions to collect, use and disseminate data in data‐intensive urban‐infrastructure projects. We propose a methodological framework grounded in the multidisciplinary literature on data governance and apply it to the Quayside project, demonstrating how Waterfront Toronto's…
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance
The goal of this paper is to propose a democratic legitimacy framework for evaluating platform-goverance proposals, and in doing so clarify terms of debate in this area, allowing for more nuanced policy assessments. It applies a democratic legitimacy framework originally created to assess the European Union's democratic bona fides – Vivian Schmidt's (2013) modification of Scharpf's (1999) well-known taxonomy of forms of democratic legitimacy – to…
Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State
Global platform governance and the internet-governance impossibility theorem
Economist Dani Rodrik argues that global economic governance is characterized by a trilemma: ‘we cannot have hyperglobalization, democracy, and national self-determination all at once. We can have at most two out of three’. This trilemma can also be applied to internet governance and global platform governance as a corollary global internet-governance impossibility theorem . This trilemma, which emphasizes who sets the rules and the degree of dem…
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, S. Zuboff (2018)
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Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century
This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power, building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange to reveal the nature of power in the twenty-first century
Incorporating the Study of Knowledge into the IPE Mainstream, or, When Does a Trade Agreement Stop Being a Trade Agreement
The treatment of knowledge—most notably commodified knowledge—as a source and vector of power potentially is a key blind spot in our understanding of the global political economy. This article offers a theoretical framework, based on the work of Susan Strange, for considering the relationship between what she called the “knowledge structure” and the other key sources of political and economic power—security, production, and finance. This framewor…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Rise of the “Knowledge Structure”: Implications for the Exercise of Power in the Global Political Economy
Somewhat paradoxically, the implications of knowledge governance's changing role for the exercise of power in the Information Age remains underappreciated outside those scholars and policymakers directly engaged with these specific areas. This special issue brings together political scientists and communication scholars to consider the issue of knowledge governance through the theoretical framework of Susan Strange. This introduction examines the…
Internet freedom and copyright maximalism: Contradictory hypocrisy or complementary policies
U.S. advocacy for increased international intellectual property protection and a free and open Internet has been criticized as being inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst. Placing U.S. copyright and Internet policy in a historical context and using Susan Strange's concepts of structural power and knowledge structures, we argue that copyright and Internet policies cannot be analyzed in isolation, but are intimately and inextricably linked…
Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies: Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies
New institutionalism is a collection of institutionalist theories, including historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, and rational choice institutionalism. This paper focuses on historical institutionalism in communication studies. First, we note that historical institutionalism — a dominant approach in political science — has appeared in relatively few studies of media and communications. Second, we describe the historical ins…
Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising
Despite the growing importance of social media, their political effectiveness remains understudied. Drawing on and updating resource mobilization theory and political process theory, this article considers how social media make “political engagement more probable” and determine the success of online social movements. It does so by examining the mainstreaming of the Canadian “user rights” copyright movement, focusing on the Fair Copyright for Cana…
Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies: Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies
New institutionalism is a collection of institutionalist theories, including historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, and rational choice institutionalism. This paper focuses on historical institutionalism in communication studies. First, we note that historical institutionalism — a dominant approach in political science — has appeared in relatively few studies of media and communications. Second, we describe the historical ins…
Infrastructure, smart cities and the knowledge economy: Lessons for policymakers from the Toronto Quayside project
Sidewalk Labs' Quayside project in Toronto demonstrates how information technologies are shaping cities' core governance functions. This article focuses on the rules governing decisions to collect, use and disseminate data in data‐intensive urban‐infrastructure projects. We propose a methodological framework grounded in the multidisciplinary literature on data governance and apply it to the Quayside project, demonstrating how Waterfront Toronto's…
Global platform governance and the internet-governance impossibility theorem
Economist Dani Rodrik argues that global economic governance is characterized by a trilemma: ‘we cannot have hyperglobalization, democracy, and national self-determination all at once. We can have at most two out of three’. This trilemma can also be applied to internet governance and global platform governance as a corollary global internet-governance impossibility theorem . This trilemma, which emphasizes who sets the rules and the degree of dem…
Internet freedom and copyright maximalism: Contradictory hypocrisy or complementary policies
U.S. advocacy for increased international intellectual property protection and a free and open Internet has been criticized as being inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst. Placing U.S. copyright and Internet policy in a historical context and using Susan Strange's concepts of structural power and knowledge structures, we argue that copyright and Internet policies cannot be analyzed in isolation, but are intimately and inextricably linked…
Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising
Despite the growing importance of social media, their political effectiveness remains understudied. Drawing on and updating resource mobilization theory and political process theory, this article considers how social media make “political engagement more probable” and determine the success of online social movements. It does so by examining the mainstreaming of the Canadian “user rights” copyright movement, focusing on the Fair Copyright for Cana…
Fair Copyright for Canada: Lessons for Online Social Movements from the First Canadian Facebook Uprising
Despite the growing importance of social media, their political effectiveness remains understudied. Drawing on and updating resource mobilization theory and political process theory, this article considers how social media make “political engagement more probable” and determine the success of online social movements. It does so by examining the mainstreaming of the Canadian “user rights” copyright movement, focusing on the Fair Copyright for Cana…
Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies: Historical Institutionalism in Communication Studies
New institutionalism is a collection of institutionalist theories, including historical institutionalism, sociological institutionalism, and rational choice institutionalism. This paper focuses on historical institutionalism in communication studies. First, we note that historical institutionalism — a dominant approach in political science — has appeared in relatively few studies of media and communications. Second, we describe the historical ins…
Incorporating the Study of Knowledge into the IPE Mainstream, or, When Does a Trade Agreement Stop Being a Trade Agreement
The treatment of knowledge—most notably commodified knowledge—as a source and vector of power potentially is a key blind spot in our understanding of the global political economy. This article offers a theoretical framework, based on the work of Susan Strange, for considering the relationship between what she called the “knowledge structure” and the other key sources of political and economic power—security, production, and finance. This framewor…
Introduction to the Special Issue: Rise of the “Knowledge Structure”: Implications for the Exercise of Power in the Global Political Economy
Somewhat paradoxically, the implications of knowledge governance's changing role for the exercise of power in the Information Age remains underappreciated outside those scholars and policymakers directly engaged with these specific areas. This special issue brings together political scientists and communication scholars to consider the issue of knowledge governance through the theoretical framework of Susan Strange. This introduction examines the…
Internet freedom and copyright maximalism: Contradictory hypocrisy or complementary policies
U.S. advocacy for increased international intellectual property protection and a free and open Internet has been criticized as being inconsistent at best and hypocritical at worst. Placing U.S. copyright and Internet policy in a historical context and using Susan Strange's concepts of structural power and knowledge structures, we argue that copyright and Internet policies cannot be analyzed in isolation, but are intimately and inextricably linked…
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, S. Zuboff (2018)
Preview this article: The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power, S. Zuboff (2018), Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/jdmp/10/2/jdmp.10.2.229-1.gif
Information, Technology and Control in a Changing World: Understanding Power Structures in the 21st Century
This book explores the interconnected ways in which the control of knowledge has become central to the exercise of political, economic, and social power, building on the work of International Political Economy scholar Susan Strange to reveal the nature of power in the twenty-first century
Global platform governance and the internet-governance impossibility theorem
Economist Dani Rodrik argues that global economic governance is characterized by a trilemma: ‘we cannot have hyperglobalization, democracy, and national self-determination all at once. We can have at most two out of three’. This trilemma can also be applied to internet governance and global platform governance as a corollary global internet-governance impossibility theorem . This trilemma, which emphasizes who sets the rules and the degree of dem…
Democratic legitimacy in global platform governance
The goal of this paper is to propose a democratic legitimacy framework for evaluating platform-goverance proposals, and in doing so clarify terms of debate in this area, allowing for more nuanced policy assessments. It applies a democratic legitimacy framework originally created to assess the European Union's democratic bona fides – Vivian Schmidt's (2013) modification of Scharpf's (1999) well-known taxonomy of forms of democratic legitimacy – to…
Power and Authority in Internet Governance: Return of the State
Infrastructure, smart cities and the knowledge economy: Lessons for policymakers from the Toronto Quayside project
Sidewalk Labs' Quayside project in Toronto demonstrates how information technologies are shaping cities' core governance functions. This article focuses on the rules governing decisions to collect, use and disseminate data in data‐intensive urban‐infrastructure projects. We propose a methodological framework grounded in the multidisciplinary literature on data governance and apply it to the Quayside project, demonstrating how Waterfront Toronto's…
Strangely inspired: Recovering a neo-Strangean approach to power, authority and knowledge for IPE
The academic imprint of Susan Strange, long considered a pioneer in the field of IPE, no longer resonates with contemporary debates about the organization and structure of the global political economy. We argue that her analytical framework continues to be a productive way to think about important current developments, most importantly in relation to what can now be called the digital age and its emergent form of capitalism. We therefore modify a…
Political science (10 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Law (7 works) · Politics (7 works) · Economics (6 works) · Corporate governance (5 works) · Law (5 works) · Management (4 works) · Power (physics (4 works) · Cybersecurity and Cyber Warfare Studies (3 works)