Overview
- The author draws upon 10,000 policy statements for their data, which they gathered in an original quantitative content analysis of quality newspapers
- An empirical study on the discourse of six Western European countries – Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria
- Adds a new quantitative approach to the discursive institutionalist literature, which is currently in demand
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy (SPERIRP)
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About this book
This book analyses the discourses of economic liberalization reform in six Western European countries – Germany, France, the United Kingdom, the Netherlands, Switzerland and Austria. It provides systematic empirical evidence that policy-related discourses are much more than noise; rather, they are detailed expressions of institutional complementarities and political struggles. The author posits that the more open a discourse, the broader the range of perceived interests, which, in turn, increases the intensity of conflicts. Similarly, the more public discourse centres on coordination, the more intense actors need to engage with opposite interests, which most probably intensifies political disputes as well. Moreover, Wueest argues that the formation of a consensus within the political mainstream has left a vacuum for outsider parties such as Syriza in Greece and Podemos in Spain to feed on the contentiousness of economic liberalization policies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Politics of Economic Liberalization
Authors: Bruno Wueest
Series Title: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62322-1
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-62321-4Published: 27 October 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-87290-2Published: 24 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-62322-1Published: 12 October 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-3394
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 169
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: International Political Economy, European Politics, Comparative Politics, Globalization, Governance and Government