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Silent revolution/passive revolution

Europe's Covid-19 recovery plan and green deal

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ID12716615
AuthorsMagnus Ryner (0000-0002-7492-2986, King's College London, corresponding author)
Year2022
Volume20
Issue4
Pages628-643
Publication date2022-12-06
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueGlobalizations (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1474-7731 • E-ISSN: 1474-774X
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14747731.2022.2147764
OpenAlexW4311680566
LanguageEN
Citations received17
References cited51

Do the EU Recovery Plan and Green Deal (EGD) break with disciplinary neoliberalism? Eschewing binary 'yes or no' answers, this article draws on Gramsci's idea of passive revolution as 'progressive restoration' to analyse these important developments in the European political economy. It offers a balance sheet of 'progressive' and 'restorative' elements and argues that these cohere in an integral response to geopolitical pressure and legitimation problems by the 'Piedmont of Europe' -Germany's power bloc. A concluding section argues that the most significant changes engendered by these initiatives may not reside in the substance in policy but rather in how policy is carried outin the form. It seems that it is becoming increasingly difficult to depoliticize disciplinary neoliberal governance in Europe. Future research is needed on the nature and implications of this for theory and (progressive) practice

Corporate governance · Discipline · Economics · Economy · Geopolitics · Hegemony · Legitimation · Neoliberalism (international relations · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies

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Citation span2023 - 2026 (4)
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