Ruling Ideas

Informationen zum Autor Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University Klappentext Why do some countries govern by moderate neoliberalism while others by a radical version? Looking at Spain and Romania, Ruling Ideas points to the role of local intellectual traditions, the strength of international alternatives, the resources of the local advocates of neoliberalism, and their vulnerability to external coercion. Zusammenfassung Why do some countries govern by moderate neoliberalism while others by a radical version? Looking at Spain and Romania, Ruling Ideas points to the role of local intellectual traditions, the strength of international alternatives, the resources of the local advocates of neoliberalism, and their vulnerability to external coercion.

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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Boston University

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Neoliberal economic theories are powerful because their domestic translators make them go local, hybridizing global scripts with local ideas. This does not mean that all local translations shape policy, however. External constraints and translators' access to cohesive policy institutions filter what kind of neoliberal hybrids become policy reality. By comparing the moderate neoliberalism that prevails in Spain with the more radical one that shapes policy thinking in Romania, Ruling Ideas explains why neoliberal hybrids take the forms that they do and how they survive crises. Cornel Ban contributes to the literature by showing that these different varieties of neoliberalism depend on what competing ideas are available locally, on the networks of actors who serve as the local advocates of neoliberalism, and on their vulnerability to external coercion. Ruling Ideas covers an extended historical period, starting with the Franco period in Spain and the Ceausescu period in Romania, discusses the economic integration of these countries into the EU, and continues through Europe's Great Recession and the European debt crisis. The broad historical coverage enables a careful analysis of how neoliberalism rules in times of stability and crisis and under different political systems.

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Why do some countries govern by moderate neoliberalism while others by a radical version? Looking at Spain and Romania, Ruling Ideas points to the role of local intellectual traditions, the strength of international alternatives, the resources of the local advocates of neoliberalism, and their vulnerability to external coercion.

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• TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Abstract

• List of graphs

• List of author interviews

• PART I: VARIETIES OF NEOLIBERALISM

• 1. The Ruling Power of Neoliberal Ideas

• What do we talk about when we talk about neoliberalism?

• Historically contingence intellectually hybridity

• Real-existing local neoliberalism: Embeddeded or disembedded?

• The political economy of neoliberalism in translation

• From diffusion to translation: the state of the art

• Tools from the Past

• Transnational socialization and resources

• Institutional cohesion

• Weapons of coercion

• Case selection

• Data and Methodology

• Organization of the book

• 2. Spain's embedded neoliberalism

• Introduction

• The Socialist Road to Embedded Neoliberalism (1982-1996)

• Gaps in Existing Explanations

• The Revolving Doors

• Translating Neoliberalism in Madrid

• Crafting Institutional Cohesion

• Containing Labor: Seduce and Abandon

• Embedded neoliberalism and European Monetary Integration

• "That load of irrationality": Joining the European Monetary System

• Moving Embedded Neoliberalism to the Right (1996-2004)

• Moving Embedded Neoliberalism to the Left (2004-2008)

• The Euro road to Lehman

• Conclusions

• 3. Romania's disembedded neoliberalism

• Late, but radical

• Late, but radical

• The limits of conventional explanations

• Neoliberalism and the postcommunist transition

• The neo-developmentalist interregnum

• Liberal neo-developmentalism (1990-1992)

• Populist neo-developmentalism (1992-1996)

• Crafting disembedded neoliberalism

• The translators of neoliberalism

• Beyond the Washington Consensus

• Neoliberal transition economics in power

• Dodging embedded neoliberalism

• Translating the Brussels Consensus

• The ebb and flow of institutional cohesion

• Radicalizing disembedded neoliberalism(2004-2008)

• Conclusions

• PART II: THE WEIGHT OF THE PAST

• 4. The Deep Roots of Spanish Neoliberalism

• Introduction

• From autarchy to liberalization

• The rise and fall of Spain's developmentalism

• Mandarin Economists and the State

• The seeds of neoliberalism

• Neoliberalism, German-style

• Ordoliberalism and the Dilution of Spanish neo-Keynesianism

• Conclusions

• 5.The Shallow Roots of Romanian Neoliberalism

• Introduction

• A Barren Land for Economic Liberalism

• Economists and the State under National-Stalinism

• Détente and Professional Transnationalization

• The Limits of Repression and Resistance

• From National-Stalinism to neo-Developmentalism

• Conclusions

• PART III: NEOLIBERALISM ACROSS BORDERS

• 6. Spain: Intensive Transnational Socialization

• The Anglo-German Origins of Spanish Neoliberalism

• Geopolitics and Anglo Pedigree

• International Organizations and Diffusion

• Domestic Debates and International Classics

• Moderating neoliberalism with German ideas

• German Interests and Southern Socialism

• Ordnungspolitik with Vitalpolitik

• Conclusions

• 7. Romania: Recurrent Coercion and Fast-Track Socialization

• Ruling by Force and by Force of Thought

• Neoliberalism by force

• Trimming neo-Developmentalism (1990-1996)

• Locking-in neoliberalism (1996-2006)

• Neoliberalism by force of thought

• The power of international status hierarchies

• The Chicago Boys did not go to Bucharest

• Chicago on a budget

• From civil society to capital

• Democratization, civil society and the localization of neoliberal thinking

• "Russian doll" neoliberalism

• The Austrian School's revolving doors

• Conclusions

• PART IV: NEOLIBERALISM'S RESILIENCE SINCE THE GREAT RECESSION

• 8. Recalibrating Embedded Neoliberalism in Spain

• Introduction

• Gaps in conventional explanations

• The Recalibration of Neoliberalism

• The institutions and ideas of Spain's recalibrated neoliberalism

• The resilience of institutional centralization

• A moderate Keynesian revival

• Defeating the orthodox resistance

• The Retrenchment of European Embedded Neoliberalism

• Austere times in Brussels

• Austere times in Frankfurt

• Structural reforms for the end of fiscal policy

• How to kill a Stimulus: Coercion and Collateral Damage

• Caja blues

• Paying for the financializing the state

• The end of Spain's Keynesian revival

• The Retrenchment of Spain's Embedded Neoliberalism (2010-2011)

• Lines in the sand

• Governing by correspondence

• The End of Embedded Neoliberalism (2011-)?

• "Prussia of the South"

• Whither Embedded Neoliberalism?

• Conclusions

• 9. The Resilience of Disembedded Neoliberalism in Romania

• Radicalizing neoliberalism

• Resilience through international coercion

• The power of coercion

• The limits of coercion

• Resilience through competition

• The power of multinational capital

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