Efficient Plutocracy versus Ineffective Democracy? (De)Limiting Alternatives in European Governance
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 70, Heft 5, S. 817-820
ISSN: 1540-6210
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In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 70, Heft 5, S. 817-820
ISSN: 1540-6210
In: Journal of international relations and development, Band 13, Heft 4, S. 325-353
ISSN: 1581-1980
In: Public administration review: PAR, Band 70, Heft 5, S. 817-821
ISSN: 0033-3352
In: The British journal of politics & international relations: BJPIR, Band 11, Heft 4, S. 593-612
ISSN: 1467-856X
This article argues that existing accounts of the transformation from 'traditional' to 'new' social democracy has thus far only identified the contextual changes that have prompted this move. In doing so, they have failed to account for the motives of social democratic party actors in undertaking the transition to 'new' social democracy in response to those changes. The article draws upon a critical realist method, and Marxist and anti-representational theories, to conceptualise 'traditional' social democratic party relations as suffering from tensions between constituents' demands for decommodification, the attempt by party elites to contain (and thereby 'represent') those demands and the (in)compatibility of this process of containment with the need to recommodify social relations in the light of periodic crises in contemporary capitalism. It argues that these tensions explain the attempt by party elites to promote the move towards 'new' social democracy, the (eventual) acquiescence of party constituents to those attempts and the subsequent exit from social democratic constituencies which has resulted. The argument is made with reference to the British Labour Party and Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD).
In: Work, employment and society: a journal of the British Sociological Association, Band 22, Heft 1, S. 187-188
ISSN: 1469-8722
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 232-245
ISSN: 0958-9287
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In: Comparative European politics, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 33-60
ISSN: 1740-388X
In: Journal of European social policy, Band 18, Heft 3, S. 232-245
ISSN: 1461-7269
This article argues that existing accounts of the underdevelopment of `Social Europe' have failed to adequately integrate the contending obstacles that explain the absence they rightly identify. It argues that by employing a critical realist methodology, including the concepts of generation, emergence, and stratification, it is possible to more adequately integrate knowledge of the obstacles to `Social Europe'. Concretely, the article argues that obstacles to `Social Europe' exist at three strata, constituted by institutional relations, political relations, and Europe-wide social relations, respectively. The underdevelopment of `Social Europe' emerged from the institutional stratum, which in turn was generated (but not determined) by the underlying political relations, which were themselves in turn generated by EU-wide social relations. From this perspective, the oft-lamented absence of `Social Europe' is an emergent property of underlying institutional, political and EU-wide social relations; its occurrence, therefore, is far less contingent than existing, less integrated, accounts suggest.
In: Comparative European politics: CEP, Band 6, Heft 1, S. 33-60
ISSN: 1472-4790
In: International affairs, Band 84, Heft 4, S. 860-861
ISSN: 0020-5850
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 16-33
ISSN: 1350-1763
World Affairs Online
In: Journal of European public policy, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 16-33
ISSN: 1466-4429
In: Journal of common market studies: JCMS, Band 43, Heft 1, S. 13-36
ISSN: 0021-9886
In: Economy and society, S. 1-26
ISSN: 1469-5766
In: Environmental politics, Band 32, Heft 6, S. 1012-1032
ISSN: 1743-8934