Brigitte Young
Biographic Data
| ID | 3759961 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brigitte Young |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brigitte |
| FAMILY NAME | Young |
| SIGNATURE | YOUNG B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Münster |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 70 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Threats of sovereign debt overhang in the EU, the new fiscal rules and the perils of policy drift
European economic, fiscal, and social policy at the crossroads
A Macro-Level Account of Money and Credit to Explain Gendered Financialization
The paper intervenes in the debate on macroeconomics, money, gender, and financialization. Generally, there is an omission in gender studies on gender-specific effects of monetary policy. Not only is there a blind-spot about the role of monetary policy in feminist political economy, there is equally a blind-spot in meso-level analysis which focus on the social construction of institutional mechanisms and the predatory market power of oligopolisti…
From Sick Man of Europe to the German Economic Power House. Two Narratives
The intent of the paper is to analyze two narratives about the remarkable turn-around of Germany in the 1990s as sick man of Europe to today's most successful economy in the EU. Ordoliberalism is used by German policy makers and elites to account for the economic success story without taking into account the Euro currency regime which has overwhelmingly favoured Germany's export-orientation. Ordoliberalism as an ideational concept has limited val…
Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Neoliberalism is not German Ordoliberalism
German Ordoliberalism as Agenda Setter for the Euro Crisis
German political leaders have extolled the advantages of the rule-based ordoliberal doctrine as a panacea for the Eurozone countries to regain competitiveness. This legalistic doctrine has been used by the German Bundesbank as an important agenda setter to prevent alternative ideas from challenging the austerity discourse in the Eurozone. A closer look across German economic history tells a different story. At no time did perfect market competiti…
Reflections on Werner Bonefeld's ‘Freedom and the Strong State
A historian and a political scientist take issue with Bonefeld's interpretation of ordoliberalism from the viewpoint of our historical knowledge of the Freiburg School. Our major disagreement is with Bonefeld's underlying assumption that the ideas of the Freiburgers on strong state authority were very durable and continued to be so across a divide as great as that of 1945 when a more strictly chronological use of the sources would have shown sign…
Questioning financial governance from a feminist perspective
"Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the 'strategic silence' about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. This silence reflects a set of assumptions that the key instruments of financial governance are gender-neutral. This often masks the ways in which finan…
The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Only a decade ago, slow growth and high unemployment plagued Germany, but the "sick man of Europe" has now moved to outperform the Eurozone average growth since the second quarter of 2010. This confirms Germany's recovery and its status as the growth engine of the continent. This surely is a success story. While Germany (also Austria and the Netherlands) is prospering, the peripheral countries in the Eurozone are confronted with a severe sovereig…
Lost in temptation of risk
Globalisierung
Der Begriff „Globalisierung“ wird seit einigen Jahren kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits wird Globalisierung als unausweichlicher Sachzwang des Weltmarkts bewertet, der dazu führt, dass sich der nationale Wohlstand sowohl in reichen als auch armen Ländern erhöht. Andererseits wird argumentiert, die Globalisierung sei nur ein Mythos oder eine Ideologie, um von der Ideenlosigkeit der Politik abzulenken. Diese kontroversen Debatten sind von hoher Emo…
Feminism and the Gender of Political Opportunity
Globalization and Gender
Globalization has to be understood as an open and contradictory process that entails restructuring the nationally bounded economic system and its Keynesian institutional regulatory structures. More specifically, we are facing a process of de-nationalization of the political and economic spaces that symbolized the preceding period of capitalism, generally referred to as the Fordist regime of accumulation (Aglietta 1979; Jessop 1988). After 1945, F…
On Collision Course
The question addressed in this paper is whether a particular discursive construction of globalization sets the boundaries for what is politically feasible within the EU. To answer this question, the macroeconomic policies of the European Monetary and Economic Union with its rigid emphasis on price stability are analysed in the context of the Nordic promise to preserve the present level of social programmes. What makes this 'puzzle' so interesting…
Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics
(2000). Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics. New Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 77-98
Triumph of the Fatherland
The East German uprising of 1989 was not a male revolution. Indeed, one of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. As one slogan proclaimed, "Without Women There Is No State." Yet despite the determination of these women--and of West German feminist groups--to help shape the future of the Germ…
The strong German state and the weak feminist movements
This article examines the causes of the marginalisation of women in political and economic decision‐making processes that are part of the ‘routine’ policy‐making process of the German state. The larger theoretical question is whether there is a ‘gender bias of the German state’ that has made its institutional structures less amenable to women's participation and their political agenda. Given the evidence, the answer is ‘yes’. There are specific e…
Deutsche Vereinigung
Nothing but gloom
The real losers in restructuring the former East German university system are women scholars. Women are not only the first to lose their positions in the process of Abwicklung they are also the last to be considered in the new stage of rebuilding the university system. Thus the politics of Abwicklung, has to be understood as a microcosm of the gendered nature of German unification as a whole. Unification has provided German conservatives the oppo…
Three Steps Back for Women
The process of German unification has been a series of political surprises. Before the chain of events of summer and fall 1989 that led to the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, few could have predicted the “change of direction” (die Wende) of the government that followed. Fewer still would have suspected how quickly the overthrow of Honecker and his government would be supplanted by a drive toward economic and then political unification. In l…
Does the American Dairy Industry Fit the Meso-Corporatist Model
Corporatism having become a less useful label for describing entire political systems, corporatist scholars have emphasized the importance of meso-level corporatism, using dairying as the classic example. Analysis of the American dairy industry does not support the claim that there is ‘no corporatism in the United States’ but it suggests why meso-corporatist enclaves in a macro-pluralist system are liable to be ephemeral. What sets the American d…
German Ordoliberalism as Agenda Setter for the Euro Crisis
German political leaders have extolled the advantages of the rule-based ordoliberal doctrine as a panacea for the Eurozone countries to regain competitiveness. This legalistic doctrine has been used by the German Bundesbank as an important agenda setter to prevent alternative ideas from challenging the austerity discourse in the Eurozone. A closer look across German economic history tells a different story. At no time did perfect market competiti…
Reflections on Werner Bonefeld's ‘Freedom and the Strong State
A historian and a political scientist take issue with Bonefeld's interpretation of ordoliberalism from the viewpoint of our historical knowledge of the Freiburg School. Our major disagreement is with Bonefeld's underlying assumption that the ideas of the Freiburgers on strong state authority were very durable and continued to be so across a divide as great as that of 1945 when a more strictly chronological use of the sources would have shown sign…
Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics
(2000). Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics. New Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 77-98
Does the American Dairy Industry Fit the Meso-Corporatist Model
Corporatism having become a less useful label for describing entire political systems, corporatist scholars have emphasized the importance of meso-level corporatism, using dairying as the classic example. Analysis of the American dairy industry does not support the claim that there is ‘no corporatism in the United States’ but it suggests why meso-corporatist enclaves in a macro-pluralist system are liable to be ephemeral. What sets the American d…
The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Only a decade ago, slow growth and high unemployment plagued Germany, but the "sick man of Europe" has now moved to outperform the Eurozone average growth since the second quarter of 2010. This confirms Germany's recovery and its status as the growth engine of the continent. This surely is a success story. While Germany (also Austria and the Netherlands) is prospering, the peripheral countries in the Eurozone are confronted with a severe sovereig…
From Sick Man of Europe to the German Economic Power House. Two Narratives
The intent of the paper is to analyze two narratives about the remarkable turn-around of Germany in the 1990s as sick man of Europe to today's most successful economy in the EU. Ordoliberalism is used by German policy makers and elites to account for the economic success story without taking into account the Euro currency regime which has overwhelmingly favoured Germany's export-orientation. Ordoliberalism as an ideational concept has limited val…
Three Steps Back for Women
The process of German unification has been a series of political surprises. Before the chain of events of summer and fall 1989 that led to the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, few could have predicted the “change of direction” (die Wende) of the government that followed. Fewer still would have suspected how quickly the overthrow of Honecker and his government would be supplanted by a drive toward economic and then political unification. In l…
On Collision Course
The question addressed in this paper is whether a particular discursive construction of globalization sets the boundaries for what is politically feasible within the EU. To answer this question, the macroeconomic policies of the European Monetary and Economic Union with its rigid emphasis on price stability are analysed in the context of the Nordic promise to preserve the present level of social programmes. What makes this 'puzzle' so interesting…
European economic, fiscal, and social policy at the crossroads
A Macro-Level Account of Money and Credit to Explain Gendered Financialization
The paper intervenes in the debate on macroeconomics, money, gender, and financialization. Generally, there is an omission in gender studies on gender-specific effects of monetary policy. Not only is there a blind-spot about the role of monetary policy in feminist political economy, there is equally a blind-spot in meso-level analysis which focus on the social construction of institutional mechanisms and the predatory market power of oligopolisti…
Lost in temptation of risk
Nothing but gloom
The real losers in restructuring the former East German university system are women scholars. Women are not only the first to lose their positions in the process of Abwicklung they are also the last to be considered in the new stage of rebuilding the university system. Thus the politics of Abwicklung, has to be understood as a microcosm of the gendered nature of German unification as a whole. Unification has provided German conservatives the oppo…
Does the American Dairy Industry Fit the Meso-Corporatist Model
Corporatism having become a less useful label for describing entire political systems, corporatist scholars have emphasized the importance of meso-level corporatism, using dairying as the classic example. Analysis of the American dairy industry does not support the claim that there is ‘no corporatism in the United States’ but it suggests why meso-corporatist enclaves in a macro-pluralist system are liable to be ephemeral. What sets the American d…
Deutsche Vereinigung
Nothing but gloom
The real losers in restructuring the former East German university system are women scholars. Women are not only the first to lose their positions in the process of Abwicklung they are also the last to be considered in the new stage of rebuilding the university system. Thus the politics of Abwicklung, has to be understood as a microcosm of the gendered nature of German unification as a whole. Unification has provided German conservatives the oppo…
Three Steps Back for Women
The process of German unification has been a series of political surprises. Before the chain of events of summer and fall 1989 that led to the fall of the Wall on November 9, 1989, few could have predicted the “change of direction” (die Wende) of the government that followed. Fewer still would have suspected how quickly the overthrow of Honecker and his government would be supplanted by a drive toward economic and then political unification. In l…
The strong German state and the weak feminist movements
This article examines the causes of the marginalisation of women in political and economic decision‐making processes that are part of the ‘routine’ policy‐making process of the German state. The larger theoretical question is whether there is a ‘gender bias of the German state’ that has made its institutional structures less amenable to women's participation and their political agenda. Given the evidence, the answer is ‘yes’. There are specific e…
Triumph of the Fatherland
The East German uprising of 1989 was not a male revolution. Indeed, one of the most significant aspects of the fall of East Germany, compared to that of other East European nations, was the presence of women demanding a political role in the newly emerging social order. As one slogan proclaimed, "Without Women There Is No State." Yet despite the determination of these women--and of West German feminist groups--to help shape the future of the Germ…
Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics
(2000). Disciplinary Neoliberalism in the European Union and Gender Politics. New Political Economy: Vol. 5, No. 1, pp. 77-98
Globalization and Gender
Globalization has to be understood as an open and contradictory process that entails restructuring the nationally bounded economic system and its Keynesian institutional regulatory structures. More specifically, we are facing a process of de-nationalization of the political and economic spaces that symbolized the preceding period of capitalism, generally referred to as the Fordist regime of accumulation (Aglietta 1979; Jessop 1988). After 1945, F…
On Collision Course
The question addressed in this paper is whether a particular discursive construction of globalization sets the boundaries for what is politically feasible within the EU. To answer this question, the macroeconomic policies of the European Monetary and Economic Union with its rigid emphasis on price stability are analysed in the context of the Nordic promise to preserve the present level of social programmes. What makes this 'puzzle' so interesting…
Feminism and the Gender of Political Opportunity
Globalisierung
Der Begriff „Globalisierung“ wird seit einigen Jahren kontrovers diskutiert. Einerseits wird Globalisierung als unausweichlicher Sachzwang des Weltmarkts bewertet, der dazu führt, dass sich der nationale Wohlstand sowohl in reichen als auch armen Ländern erhöht. Andererseits wird argumentiert, die Globalisierung sei nur ein Mythos oder eine Ideologie, um von der Ideenlosigkeit der Politik abzulenken. Diese kontroversen Debatten sind von hoher Emo…
Lost in temptation of risk
Questioning financial governance from a feminist perspective
"Questioning Financial Governance from a Feminist Perspective brings together feminist economists and feminist political economists from different countries located in North America and Europe to analyze the 'strategic silence' about gender in fiscal and monetary policy, and financial regulation. This silence reflects a set of assumptions that the key instruments of financial governance are gender-neutral. This often masks the ways in which finan…
The European Sovereign Debt Crisis
Only a decade ago, slow growth and high unemployment plagued Germany, but the "sick man of Europe" has now moved to outperform the Eurozone average growth since the second quarter of 2010. This confirms Germany's recovery and its status as the growth engine of the continent. This surely is a success story. While Germany (also Austria and the Netherlands) is prospering, the peripheral countries in the Eurozone are confronted with a severe sovereig…
Reflections on Werner Bonefeld's ‘Freedom and the Strong State
A historian and a political scientist take issue with Bonefeld's interpretation of ordoliberalism from the viewpoint of our historical knowledge of the Freiburg School. Our major disagreement is with Bonefeld's underlying assumption that the ideas of the Freiburgers on strong state authority were very durable and continued to be so across a divide as great as that of 1945 when a more strictly chronological use of the sources would have shown sign…
German Ordoliberalism as Agenda Setter for the Euro Crisis
German political leaders have extolled the advantages of the rule-based ordoliberal doctrine as a panacea for the Eurozone countries to regain competitiveness. This legalistic doctrine has been used by the German Bundesbank as an important agenda setter to prevent alternative ideas from challenging the austerity discourse in the Eurozone. A closer look across German economic history tells a different story. At no time did perfect market competiti…
Contemporary Anglo-Saxon Neoliberalism is not German Ordoliberalism
A Macro-Level Account of Money and Credit to Explain Gendered Financialization
The paper intervenes in the debate on macroeconomics, money, gender, and financialization. Generally, there is an omission in gender studies on gender-specific effects of monetary policy. Not only is there a blind-spot about the role of monetary policy in feminist political economy, there is equally a blind-spot in meso-level analysis which focus on the social construction of institutional mechanisms and the predatory market power of oligopolisti…
From Sick Man of Europe to the German Economic Power House. Two Narratives
The intent of the paper is to analyze two narratives about the remarkable turn-around of Germany in the 1990s as sick man of Europe to today's most successful economy in the EU. Ordoliberalism is used by German policy makers and elites to account for the economic success story without taking into account the Euro currency regime which has overwhelmingly favoured Germany's export-orientation. Ordoliberalism as an ideational concept has limited val…
European economic, fiscal, and social policy at the crossroads
Threats of sovereign debt overhang in the EU, the new fiscal rules and the perils of policy drift
Political science (18 works) · Economics (14 works) · Political economy (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Politics (10 works) · German (9 works) · Law (9 works) · Global Financial Crisis and Policies (6 works) · Law (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works)