Great Transformations

Blyth, Mark

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“…Consistent with a body of ideational scholarship highlighting and exploring the causal and constitutive role of ideas in explaining political economic outcomes (Blyth 2002;Campbell 1998Campbell , 2004Hay 2001, 2004a, 2004b, Hall 1989, 1993Hay and Rosamond 2002;Schmidt 2002Schmidt , 2008, our account focuses on Weberian notions of verstehen, and how economic actors understand their environment, arguing that these understandings shape how change is enacted. We align with Woll in seeing economic rationality, in France and elsewhere, as socially constructed (2008,2010).…”

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Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-DirigisteResponses to the Global Financial Crisis

Clift

2012

New Political Economy

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This article advances the case for the more systematic incorporation of ideational factors into comparative capitalisms analysis as a corrective to the rational choice proclivities of the Varieties of Capitalism approach. It demonstrates the pay-off of such an ideationally attuned approach through analysis of French capitalist restructuring over the last 25 years, placing it in comparative context. A modus operandi for such ideational explanation is elaborated through delineating different national conceptions of the market, and setting out their impacts on practices of market-making. The claim made in this article is that understanding the evolution of French capitalism requires recognition of the ongoing market-making role of the French State, in combination with the French conception of the market and its embedding within a social context characterised by the interpenetration of public and private elitist networks of France's 'financial network economy' which remains substantially intact. The ideational dimension is crucial because French understandings of the market and competition, the ideational building blocks of market-making, inform French state interventions and leave footprints on French institutions and market structures, and the evolutionary trajectory of French capitalism. In charting this trajectory, this article deploys the concept of post-dirigisme. We map out the parameters and causes of the post-dirigiste condition in France through examination of French bond market development, privatisation, the shift from a government-to a market-dominated financial system, and French capitalism's internationalisation. It then uses postdirigisme to explain French state responses to the financial crisis and the banking bailout, noting how state actors, in concert with the banking elites, actively facilitated dominant market positions of French international champions.

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Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-DirigisteResponses to the Global Financial Crisis

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2012

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“…So while we suggest that the institutional complementarities literature provides important analytical tools for mapping varieties of residential capitalism (once amended), not all can be explained by the economic fundamental or exploring the logic of institutional frameworks. Indeed, within this issue we also point to the importance of understanding how ideas about residential property markets can be used as weapons by political and economic elites (Blyth, 2002), as well as how broader changing attitudes and conventions about these markets can provide clear impulses to those in power (Seabrooke, 2007).…”

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Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy: Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing

2008

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“…El papel de las ideas en el cambio institucional aumenta en situaciones de crisis e incertidumbre (Blyth, 2002). Ni las ideas ni las instituciones son epifenómeno de los intereses de los actores.…”

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Hacia una teoría ideacional de la difusión institucional. La adopción y adaptación del presidencialismo en América Latina durante el siglo XIX

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2017

Rev. Esp. Cienc. Polít.

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ResumenLas teorías de difusión han prestado relativamente poca atención hasta la fecha a la diseminación de instituciones políticas. Asimismo, han ofrecido mejores explicaciones de los procesos de adopción que de los de adaptación. La construcción de las instituciones políticas en América Latina y el Caribe después de las guerras de independencia ofrece una excelente oportunidad para elaborar teoría corrigiendo esos sesgos. El modelo presidencialista norteamericano fue adoptado por los países de América Latina durante el siglo xix, pero con adaptaciones, en el sentido de que las «copias» tuvieron diferencias fundamentales respecto al paradigma original. El presidencialismo latinoamericano asigna al presidente un papel sensiblemente mayor que el norteamericano en la dinámica del gobierno. Los factores ideacionales no solamente explican la opción inicial por el presidencialismo. Además, contribuyen a explicar el sentido y la intensidad de la profunda mutación experimentada por el modelo de Filadelfia.Palabras clave: teorías de difusión, presidencialismo, América Latina, ideas, instituciones. AbstractDiffusion theories have paid little attention to the dissemination of political institutions, so far. Moreover, they have offered better explanations of processes of adoption than adaptation ones. The creation of political institutions in Latin America after the wars of independence provides an excellent opportunity for theory-building while correcting these biases. The USA presidential model was adopted by Latin American countries during the xix century, but with certain adaptations, in the sense that the "copies" had fundamental differences from the original paradigm. Latin American presidentialism grants the president a significantly greater role in the dynamics of government than the American one. Ideational factors explain not only the initial choice for presidentialism; but they also contribute to explaining the meaning and intensity of the deep mutation experienced by the Philadelphia model.

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Great Transformations

Cited by 1,726 publications

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Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-DirigisteResponses to the Global Financial Crisis

Comparative Capitalisms, Ideational Political Economy and French Post-DirigisteResponses to the Global Financial Crisis

Varieties of Residential Capitalism in the International Political Economy: Old Welfare States and the New Politics of Housing

Hacia una teoría ideacional de la difusión institucional. La adopción y adaptación del presidencialismo en América Latina durante el siglo XIX

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