Suchergebnisse

Chapter 1. What is horizontal hostility? -- chapter 2. The impact of horizontal hostility -- chapter 3. Exploring theory -- chapter 4. A root cause analysis of horizontal hostility -- chapter 5. Enlarging the landscape -- chapter 6. Nurturing our young -- chapter 7. Awareness and prevention -- chapter 8. Managerial response -- chapter 9. Organizational opportunities -- chapter 10. Individual response.

At the heart of the struggle to constitute the 'politics of limits' - the parameters defining the budgetary realities facing governments - is the growing antagonistic relationship between the imperatives of private (financial) markets and public democracies. Through a new analytical instrumentality, this interdisciplinary account problematizes credit ratings and the problem of sovereign debt to show how the authoritative knowledge underpinning the political economy of creditworthiness is constructed through the deployment of the discursive practices of risk and uncertainty. Unpacking the 'black-box' of sovereign ratings, as a socio-technical device of control, we better understand how their authoritative capacity/utility are constituted through their performative effects, which create the conditions and subjectivities that serve to validate and regenerate a disinflationary fiscal normality/rectitude. Political judgment is censured through depoliticizing risk techniques; as a (fallacious) analytics of ratings helps elevate quantitative expertise and relegates competing, qualitative approaches in the design of a neoliberal politics of limits. This exacerbates the asymmetry between epistocracy and democracy, which prompts attempts to reclaim lost fiscal sovereignty.