Of paradigms and power
British economic policy making since Thatcher
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6264397 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Martin B Carstensen (0000-0002-0432-1632, Copenhagen Business School), Matthias Matthijs (0000-0001-8628-745X, Johns Hopkins University) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 431-447 |
| Publication date | 2018-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Governance (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0952-1895 • E-ISSN: 1468-0491 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/gove.12301 |
| OpenAlex | W2716741859 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 55 |
| References cited | 42 |
How do ruling policy paradigms persist over time and why do they often undergo significant internal ideational changes? While the impact of Peter Hall's approach to policy paradigms on the study of governance has been immense, there is a burgeoning consensus that a “Kuhnian” understanding of paradigms makes punctuated equilibrium style shifts the only game in town. While Hall's approach can account for inter‐paradigm change with reference to exogenous shocks, it does not allow for significant ideational shifts to occur intra‐paradigm. To remedy this, we place ideational power dynamics at the heart of the study of policy paradigms. We demonstrate the general applicability of our approach by examining the evolution of British macroeconomic policy‐making since 1990. We show how key policy‐makers were able to employ their institutional and ideational power to reinterpret and redefine the dominant neoliberal understanding of the economy to match their own specific ideas and policy priorities
Economic history · Economic power · Economics · Policy making · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Public Administration · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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How ideas matter in public policy
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The Critical Juncture Concept’s Evolving Capacity to Explain Policy Change
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The ontology of financial markets and the policy paradigm of financial regulation
The politics of ECB’s economic ideas and its implications for European economic governance
Constructing a neoliberal exclusionary state
How “baked in” ideas hinder ideational robustness
Ideational robustness in turbulent times
Demand, dysfunction and distribution
Credible interventionism
The Political Economy of Household Debt & The Keynesian Policy Paradigm
The power of folk ideas in economic policy and the central bank–commercial bank analogy
From Big Bang to Big Crash
From Receding to Reseeding
The ‘strange non-death’ of economic models
The discourse of competitiveness and the dis-embedding of the national economy
Between substantive and symbolic influence
Contingent Keynesianism
Populism, Brexit, and the manufactured crisis of British neoliberalism
Austerity’s failures and policy learning
Counterproductive evolution
How shared ideas may hinder lobbying success
Ideas and ideation in geographical political economy
The Trump administration and China
Policy paradigm modes
Southern agency in global norms creation
From ‘trial and error’ to major reform
Ideas and crisis in policy and administration
Why we need bricoleurs to foster robust governance solutions in turbulent times
Neoliberalism and banking crisis bailouts
Understanding Conceptual Impact of Scientific Knowledge on Policy
Brexit and the Death of Centrist Liberalism
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European integration and asymmetric power
The ideational foundations of social democratic austerity in the context of the great recession
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Making sense of gold and governance
Policymaking, Ideational Power and the Role of the Media
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Working with ideas
Legitimation as justification
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Invasion From Within
International organisations as policy bricoleurs
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Great Transformations
The politics of policy anomalies
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Ideas and Institutional Change in Social Security
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Ideas, Political Power and Public Policy
Ideas beyond paradigms
Ideas as coalition magnets
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Two Faces of Power
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| Unique citing works | 55 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 6,88 |
| Citation span | 2018 - 2026 (9) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 55 |