Stephen Mcbride
Biographic Data
| ID | 782932 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Mcbride |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Mcbride |
| SIGNATURE | MCBRIDE S |
| AFFILIATIONS | McMaster University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-5222-0474 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 42 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 232 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 36 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 6 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1983 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Democratizing the Extended State: Public Enterprise Constraints and Capacities
This article assesses the constraints and capacities for Canadian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to enhance economic democracy. Constraints include the democratic deficit produced by the commercialization of SOEs, which shifted away from historically privileging the social outcomes of public enterprise, together with the construction of a global governance architecture with binding and enforceable trade agreements that constrain democratic decisi…
Barry Eidlin, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada
Reviewed by: Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada by Barry Eidlin Stephen McBride Barry Eidlin, Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (New York: Cambridge University Press 2018) This book is a fine piece of historical sociology dealing with differences in the labour movements of Canada and the United States. More specifically the book deals with union density in the two countries, and why it diverged after t…
Hopelessly devoted to you’: An examination of Winnicott’s concept of primary maternal preoccupation in the identity and practice of male group analysts
The rationale for this study is to explore whether or not the Winnicottian concept of primary maternal preoccupation fits into the identities and features in what male group analysts reflect on and resonate with upon ‘giving birth to’ and conducting a group. A qualitative, individual case-study approach was employed to attempt to discover and understand how male group analysts make sense of Winnicott’s fundamental concept. Wondering and thinking …
Austerity and constitutionalizing structural reform of labour in the European Union
This article traces how, within a context of authoritarian neoliberalism, the European Union (EU)’s constitutionalization of key economic policy areas locks in place austerity policies that impose major costs on working people while simultaneously reducing opportunities for the democratic expression of alternative approaches for dealing with the crisis. Structural reform of labour markets (along with fiscal policy) is designed to increase wage an…
Constitutionalizing Austerity: Taking the Public out of Public Policy
Nothwithstanding their failure to achieve stated objectives, austerity policies have been pursued with persistence. Rather than failures prompting reconsideration, there is a clear trend to render austerity policies a permanent, constitutionalized response to economic challenges ‘for all seasons’. This article links the drive to austerity with the ‘new constitutionalism’ literature which depicts procedurally the removal of important decisions fro…
After '08: Social Policy and the Global Financial Crisis
The 2007-08 financial crisis marked a turning point for social policy. World leaders were forced to take a position: Should they entrench neo-liberal policies in response to the crisis? Or should they implement alternative measures to challenge economics as usual? After ’08 examines how global institutions, such as the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, and International Labour Organization, as well as nation states around the world respond…
Introduction to GSP Forum
GSP Editors’ Farewell
Alternatives to austerity? Post-crisis policy advice from global institutions
The 2008 global financial crisis caused major anxiety about the stability of the neoliberal economic regime. This affected the financial and banking systems and also raised the spectre of mass unemployment and social unrest. A ‘post-crisis’ world was widely proclaimed in 2010. This was premature; by 2012 Europe was embroiled in a sovereign debt crisis and the US economy showed few signs of real recovery. A second recession seemed likely and auste…
Introduction: Confronting global poverty and inequality
Global taxes: A fiscal solution in need of a paradigm shift
The Scope and Limits of a Public–Private Hybrid: Dispute Settlement under Nafta Chapter 19
Globalisation is often depicted as having led to an increase in private authority at the expense of that of the state. It is important to correctly specify the scope that private authority has achieved and the capacity of states to push back and limit that authority. This article grounds these theoretical issues in a discussion of the hybrid, public–private dispute settlement mechanism set up in the original Canada–US Free Trade Agreement (CUSTFA…
Relations of Global Power: Neoliberal Order and Disorder
This collection of original articles offers an up-to-date, critical review of the global political economy today, covering such topics as international finance, corporate governance, military power, international labour standards, global health, human rights, and more. Assembling a group of top scholars, the editors are able to provide a wide-ranging yet coherent survey of contemporary international institutions and how they are governed. In the …
The OECD and Transnational Governance
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development is a much cited but little studied institution, and its role in international governance is poorly understood. Nevertheless, the OECD plays an important role in the emerging structure of global governance. Focusing upon the OECD's core functions, contributors to this volume trace the OECD's history, structure, and role in international governance as well as its function as a "policy ideas…
Oecd and Transnational Governance
Standardizing and disseminating knowledge: The role of the OECD in global governance
If ‘knowledge is power’, it is unsurprising that the production, legitimation, and application of social scientific knowledge, not least that which was designed to harness social organization to economic growth, is a potentially contentious process. Coping with, adapting to, or attempting to shape globalization has emerged as a central concern of policy-makers who are, therefore, interested in knowledge to assist their managerial activities. Thus…
Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance
Devolution and Neoliberalism in the Canadian Welfare State: Ideology, National and International Conditioning Frameworks, and Policy Change in British Columbia
The Canadian welfare state has changed significantly in the last decade with the federal devolution of policy responsibilities creating opportunities for some provinces to adopt American social policy ideas. Given the expectations of resilience and non-convergence, in the welfare state literature, this article addresses the issues of policy change by demonstrating that the movement of British Columbia's labour and social policy towards internatio…
Investment as the Achilles Heel of Globalisation: The Ongoing Conflict between the Rights of Capital and the Rights of States
Efforts to extend global trade and investment governance seem at an impasse. Many disputes, including over investment rules, the focus of this article, and continued controversies over inequality and fairness in the global economy have contributed to the collapse of various trade and investment initiatives. Especially in the investment area, the collapse of mulilateral initiatives has led to bilateral “solutions” – the number of bilateral investm…
Reconfiguring Sovereignty: Nafta Chapter 11 Dispute Settlement Procedures and the Issue of Public-Private Authority
This article focuses on the claim that authority is shifting from public into private hands. To partially test that thesis it examines the procedures for settling disputes under NAFTA Chapter 11 (itself an example of the broader category of investor-state provisions found in bilateral investment agreements and some international conventions). The article detects evidence of a delegation or transfer of public authority to private processes. It dea…
Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change
The idea that Canada is experiencing a "post-constitutional" era is misleading because it is based only on lack of changes to the formal codified constitution. Through an examination of international economic agreements, considered as untraditional mechanisms having a constitutional effect, a case is made that Canada's constitution has undergone significant, but little noticed, change over the last decade. Using Stephen Krasner's typology of sove…
Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy
Globalization, employment and work
Globalization, the Restructuring of Labour Markets and Policy Convergence: The OECD ‘Jobs Strategy’
This article investigates the relationship between globalization and labour market reform by examining the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) ‘Jobs Strategy’. It has been argued that globalization requires, and the competitive forces unleashed by that process require, the national adoption of more flexible, market-based, or ‘neoliberal’ labour market policies or states will face declining labour market performance. …
Power in the Global Era: Grounding Globalization
This volume discusses the effects of globalization on changing power relationships between transnational corporations (TNCs), and transnational capital, the state, and subnational groups. TNCs have ex
Globalisation and its Discontents
Most analyses of globalization convey the message that it is an unstoppable force sweeping away national sovereignty and inevitably creating a brave new world of borderless and boundless consumerism
Standardizing and disseminating knowledge: The role of the OECD in global governance
If ‘knowledge is power’, it is unsurprising that the production, legitimation, and application of social scientific knowledge, not least that which was designed to harness social organization to economic growth, is a potentially contentious process. Coping with, adapting to, or attempting to shape globalization has emerged as a central concern of policy-makers who are, therefore, interested in knowledge to assist their managerial activities. Thus…
Devolution and Neoliberalism in the Canadian Welfare State: Ideology, National and International Conditioning Frameworks, and Policy Change in British Columbia
The Canadian welfare state has changed significantly in the last decade with the federal devolution of policy responsibilities creating opportunities for some provinces to adopt American social policy ideas. Given the expectations of resilience and non-convergence, in the welfare state literature, this article addresses the issues of policy change by demonstrating that the movement of British Columbia's labour and social policy towards internatio…
Globalization, the Restructuring of Labour Markets and Policy Convergence: The OECD ‘Jobs Strategy’
This article investigates the relationship between globalization and labour market reform by examining the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) ‘Jobs Strategy’. It has been argued that globalization requires, and the competitive forces unleashed by that process require, the national adoption of more flexible, market-based, or ‘neoliberal’ labour market policies or states will face declining labour market performance. …
Reconfiguring Sovereignty: Nafta Chapter 11 Dispute Settlement Procedures and the Issue of Public-Private Authority
This article focuses on the claim that authority is shifting from public into private hands. To partially test that thesis it examines the procedures for settling disputes under NAFTA Chapter 11 (itself an example of the broader category of investor-state provisions found in bilateral investment agreements and some international conventions). The article detects evidence of a delegation or transfer of public authority to private processes. It dea…
Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change
The idea that Canada is experiencing a "post-constitutional" era is misleading because it is based only on lack of changes to the formal codified constitution. Through an examination of international economic agreements, considered as untraditional mechanisms having a constitutional effect, a case is made that Canada's constitution has undergone significant, but little noticed, change over the last decade. Using Stephen Krasner's typology of sove…
Dismantling a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule in Canada
Not Working: State, Unemployment, and Neo-Conservatism in Canada
The Continuing Crisis of Social Democracy: Ontario’s Social Contract in Perspective
Conventional views of the choices available to social democrats counterpose the pursuit of power to ideological purity. In Canada such debates have been endemic. Even commentators sympathetic to a radical ideology depict it as an obstacle to achieving power, and hence to acquiring the ability to effect real change
Corporatism, Public Policy and the Labour Movement: A Comparative Study
This article identifies two dimensions which distinguish corporatism, especially as defined by Philippe Schmitter, from pluralism. Noting that most discussions of corporatism have emphasized one dimension and neglected the second, the article seeks to determine, empirically, whether the two dimensions are as closely associated as the concept suggests. The finding, for the cases studied, is that they are inversely rather than positively correlated…
Austerity and constitutionalizing structural reform of labour in the European Union
This article traces how, within a context of authoritarian neoliberalism, the European Union (EU)’s constitutionalization of key economic policy areas locks in place austerity policies that impose major costs on working people while simultaneously reducing opportunities for the democratic expression of alternative approaches for dealing with the crisis. Structural reform of labour markets (along with fiscal policy) is designed to increase wage an…
The Comparative Politics of Unemployment: Swedish and British Responses to Economic Crisis
Alternatives to austerity? Post-crisis policy advice from global institutions
The 2008 global financial crisis caused major anxiety about the stability of the neoliberal economic regime. This affected the financial and banking systems and also raised the spectre of mass unemployment and social unrest. A ‘post-crisis’ world was widely proclaimed in 2010. This was premature; by 2012 Europe was embroiled in a sovereign debt crisis and the US economy showed few signs of real recovery. A second recession seemed likely and auste…
Continuities and Discontinuities: The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Globalization and neoconservatism continue to shape change and require constant evaluation. These thought-provoking and informative essays are an important contribution to the ongoing debate on social welfare and labour market policy in Canada
Public Policy as a Determinant of Interest Group Behaviour: The Canadian Labour Congress' Corporatist Initiative, 1976–1978
The Canadian Labour Congress' abortive corporatist initiative 1976–1978 is examined. Existing interpretations of the episode are reviewed and an alternative posited. CLC policy represented an attempt to extend the existing localized collective bargaining system to the national level in response to the federal government's shift from macro-economic policy management to more direct forms of economic intervention. The initiative's failure is ascribe…
Democratizing the Extended State: Public Enterprise Constraints and Capacities
This article assesses the constraints and capacities for Canadian state-owned enterprises (SOEs) to enhance economic democracy. Constraints include the democratic deficit produced by the commercialization of SOEs, which shifted away from historically privileging the social outcomes of public enterprise, together with the construction of a global governance architecture with binding and enforceable trade agreements that constrain democratic decisi…
Introduction: Confronting global poverty and inequality
Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order
Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order
Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-Conservatism in Canada
The State and Labour Markets: Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unemployment
In the western capitalist world, one of the prevailing images of post-war politics has been that of the rise and decline of a Keynesian consensus. With the decline in this consensus, based in part on the objective of full-employment, the spectre of mass unemployment has returned
Public Policy as a Determinant of Interest Group Behaviour: The Canadian Labour Congress' Corporatist Initiative, 1976–1978
The Canadian Labour Congress' abortive corporatist initiative 1976–1978 is examined. Existing interpretations of the episode are reviewed and an alternative posited. CLC policy represented an attempt to extend the existing localized collective bargaining system to the national level in response to the federal government's shift from macro-economic policy management to more direct forms of economic intervention. The initiative's failure is ascribe…
Corporatism, Public Policy and the Labour Movement: A Comparative Study
This article identifies two dimensions which distinguish corporatism, especially as defined by Philippe Schmitter, from pluralism. Noting that most discussions of corporatism have emphasized one dimension and neglected the second, the article seeks to determine, empirically, whether the two dimensions are as closely associated as the concept suggests. The finding, for the cases studied, is that they are inversely rather than positively correlated…
The Canadian Political Science Association 1987 Programme Committee/Association canadienne de science politique 1987 Comité du programme
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The State and Labour Markets: Towards a Comparative Political Economy of Unemployment
In the western capitalist world, one of the prevailing images of post-war politics has been that of the rise and decline of a Keynesian consensus. With the decline in this consensus, based in part on the objective of full-employment, the spectre of mass unemployment has returned
The Comparative Politics of Unemployment: Swedish and British Responses to Economic Crisis
Crisis and Choice in European Social DemocracyFritz W. Scharpf Translated by Ruth Crowley and Fred Thompson Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991, pp. xx. 303
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Not Working: State, Unemployment and Neo-Conservatism in Canada
Not Working: State, Unemployment, and Neo-Conservatism in Canada
Not Working: State, Unemployment, and Neo-Conservatism in Canada
Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order
Le Prix Smiley
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The Smiley Prize
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The Continuing Crisis of Social Democracy: Ontario’s Social Contract in Perspective
Conventional views of the choices available to social democrats counterpose the pursuit of power to ideological purity. In Canada such debates have been endemic. Even commentators sympathetic to a radical ideology depict it as an obstacle to achieving power, and hence to acquiring the ability to effect real change
Dismantling a Nation: Canada and the New World Order
Continuities and Discontinuities: The Political Economy of Social Welfare and Labour Market Policy in Canada
Globalization and neoconservatism continue to shape change and require constant evaluation. These thought-provoking and informative essays are an important contribution to the ongoing debate on social welfare and labour market policy in Canada
Dismantling a Nation: The Transition to Corporate Rule in Canada
Power in the Global Era: Grounding Globalization
This volume discusses the effects of globalization on changing power relationships between transnational corporations (TNCs), and transnational capital, the state, and subnational groups. TNCs have ex
Globalisation and its Discontents
Most analyses of globalization convey the message that it is an unstoppable force sweeping away national sovereignty and inevitably creating a brave new world of borderless and boundless consumerism
Globalization, the Restructuring of Labour Markets and Policy Convergence: The OECD ‘Jobs Strategy’
This article investigates the relationship between globalization and labour market reform by examining the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD's) ‘Jobs Strategy’. It has been argued that globalization requires, and the competitive forces unleashed by that process require, the national adoption of more flexible, market-based, or ‘neoliberal’ labour market policies or states will face declining labour market performance. …
Global Instability: Uncertainty and New Visions in Political Economy
Globalization, employment and work
Quiet Constitutionalism in Canada: The International Political Economy of Domestic Institutional Change
The idea that Canada is experiencing a "post-constitutional" era is misleading because it is based only on lack of changes to the formal codified constitution. Through an examination of international economic agreements, considered as untraditional mechanisms having a constitutional effect, a case is made that Canada's constitution has undergone significant, but little noticed, change over the last decade. Using Stephen Krasner's typology of sove…
Investment as the Achilles Heel of Globalisation: The Ongoing Conflict between the Rights of Capital and the Rights of States
Efforts to extend global trade and investment governance seem at an impasse. Many disputes, including over investment rules, the focus of this article, and continued controversies over inequality and fairness in the global economy have contributed to the collapse of various trade and investment initiatives. Especially in the investment area, the collapse of mulilateral initiatives has led to bilateral “solutions” – the number of bilateral investm…
Reconfiguring Sovereignty: Nafta Chapter 11 Dispute Settlement Procedures and the Issue of Public-Private Authority
This article focuses on the claim that authority is shifting from public into private hands. To partially test that thesis it examines the procedures for settling disputes under NAFTA Chapter 11 (itself an example of the broader category of investor-state provisions found in bilateral investment agreements and some international conventions). The article detects evidence of a delegation or transfer of public authority to private processes. It dea…
Neo-Liberalism, State Power and Global Governance
Political science (35 works) · Economics (25 works) · Law (25 works) · Politics (24 works) · Law (21 works) · Political economy (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Computer Science (10 works) · Labor Movements and Unions (10 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (10 works)