US power and the crisis of social democracy in Europe's second project of integration
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7706543 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Magnus Ryner (0000-0002-7492-2986, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 31 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 7-26 |
| Publication date | 2007-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Capital & Class (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0309-8168 • E-ISSN: 2041-0980 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/030981680709300102 |
| OpenAlex | W1984662143 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 29 |
This article draws on the work of Poulantzas to argue that European social democracy is in crisis because European integration since the 1980s has been articulated within a relationship of structural subordination to US-led globalised financial capital, to which European capital has itself increasingly gravitated. This has also been the determining parameter of the state-as-social-relation, and contradicts the post-war welfare settlement. Against this backdrop, Europe has struggled to rearticulate a new social compromise and politics of social mediation. The attendant crisis of legitimisation has primarily benefited right-wing populism, which does not augur well for the health of Europe's synthesis of capitalism with democracy
Capitalism · Democracy · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Populism · Power (physics) · Sociology · State (computer science) · Subordination (linguistics) · Welfare state · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Law · Political and Economic history of UK and US · Social Policy and Reform Studies
European integration, social democratic Europeanism and the competitiveness discourse
Contradictions and Limits of Neoliberal European Governance
In search of social democracy
The relevance of Nicos Poulantzas for contemporary debates on ‘the international’
Sociologies matérialistes des institutions internationales
European finance in the American mirror
Questioning the 'common sense
The ambiguity of resistance
Globalization in Question
The making of an Atlantic ruling class
The welfare state and equality
Grundrisse
Why We Need a New Welfare State
Why EMU Is—or May Be—Good for European Welfare States
The Self‐Transformation of the European Social Model(s)
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
Social Capitalism
Transnational Capitalism and the Struggle over European Integration
Social Forces in the Making of the New European Economy
European governance and new constitutionalism
Monetary Union and the Transatlantic and Social Dimensions of Europe's Crisis
The economics of US imperialism at the turn of the 21st century
Superintending Global Capital
Europe versus America? Contradictions of Imperialism
International regimes
Recasting the European Bargain
Towards a Marxist theory of European integration
Welfare-State Regress in Western Europe
Political power and social classes
Reforming the French welfare state
Internationalisation of capitalist relations and the Nation-State∗
| Unique citing works | 8 |
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| Citations per year | 0,44 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2024 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |