The strategic-relational approach, realism and the state: from regulation theory to neoliberalism via Marx and Poulantzas, an interview with Bob Jessop

Jessop, Bob; Morgan, Jamie

doi:10.1080/14767430.2021.1995685

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“…It shifts our focus beyond constitutionally defined sets of legal institutions and principles and treats regulation as a sustained attempt to alter behavior for identified purposes (Black, 2002; Braithwaite, 2006). This definition does not privilege formal state regulation and thus opens the discussion to informal modes of regulation (Braithwaite, 2006; Jessop, 2008). Regulatory theory recognizes that formal and informal regulation co‐exist in the same regulatory system and are inter‐permeable and dynamically linked.…”

Section: Theorizing Regulatory Changementioning

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“…Regulatory theory also disaggregates state control over commerce into two further categories that are useful for tracing continuities and changes in modes of governance. One, regulation signals the kind of economic and social behavior regulators desire (Jessop, 2008; Sunstein, 1996). Regulation makes broad normative statements about the objectives of economic governance and the future direction of policies—it signals the background beliefs informing state action (Carstensen & Schmidt, 2016).…”

Section: Theorizing Regulatory Changementioning

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“…Two, regulators use different modes of regulation (or regulatory technologies) to project state power (Jessop, 2008). Foucault (1982, p. 221) observed that regulatory technologies enable the “state to structure the possible field of action of others.” Regulatory technologies aim to transform complex, illegible, and diverse local regulatory practices into simplified, legible, and standardized state processes (Scott, 1998).…”

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“…6 6 Regulatory theory defies precise definition because it spans a wide range of disciplines, such as sociology, psychology and public administration. A unifying theme is the study of efforts to alter the behavior of others using defined standards, with the intention of producing identifiable outcomes (Black, 2002; also see, Jessop, 2008; Braithwaite, 2006). …”

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Theorizing continuity and change in socialist regulation

Gillespie

2023

Law & Policy

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How does regulation change in authoritarian polities that tightly control public discourse and social mobilization? Socio-legal theories assume that regulation changes through intersubjective dialogical exchanges that persuade regulators to alter how they perceive social problems and the appropriate regulatory responses. Although this framework captures regulatory change in transparent dialogical spaces, it misses much of the regulatory story in the opaque discursive processes that order authoritarian polities. This article turns to sociological institutional theory-a non-dialogical theory to understand regulatory change in Vietnam's authoritarian polity. It investigates how commercial regulation in Vietnam has responded to an emerging mixed-market economy, at the same time the state has suppressed public dialogical challenges to socialist ideology. It concludes that regulatory change occurs when regulators respond to economic and social crises and layer new ideational components onto old programmatic ideas, converting them to new uses. | INTRODUCTIONHow does regulation change in authoritarian polities 1 that tightly control public discourse and social mobilization? Socio-legal theories assume that regulation changes through intersubjective dialogical exchanges that persuade regulators to alter how they perceive social problems and devise appropriate regulatory responses (Chua & Engle, 2019;Nobles & Schiff, 2013). Although this framework captures regulatory change in transparent dialogical spaces, it is less wellequipped to explore the opaque processes that shape regulatory change in authoritarian polities.

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Section: Theorizing Regulatory Changementioning

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Section: Theorizing Regulatory Changementioning

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Theorizing continuity and change in socialist regulation

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2023

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“…Articles in this theme issue variously engage theories of the state in capitalism; however, rather than conceiving of the capitalist state canon as rivalrous, the contributors here call upon and combine a range of approaches in addressing the questions posed by new state capitalism studies. Variously centred on Jessop's strategic-relational approach (Paul and Cumbers, 2023; see also Jessop, 2002; Jessop and Morgan, 2022), Hart's relational-comparative approach (Meulbroek, 2023) and Schering's model of the accumulative state (Silverwood and Berry, 2023; see Scheiring, 2020), established theories are mobilized and blended in novel ways. The authors apply theoretical insights to the logics, drivers and features of contemporary state capitalism (Alami and Dixon, 2023; Palcic et al, 2023; Paul and Cumbers, 2023; Wood et al, 2023), histories and temporalities that complexify otherwise received periodizations (Alami and Dixon, 2023; Eagleton-Pierce, 2023; Palcic et al, 2023; Silverwood and Berry, 2023), and directly address the capitalist state in state capitalism (Alami and Dixon, 2023; Palcic et al, 2023; Su and Lim, 2023).…”

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Making space for the new state capitalism, part I: Working with a troublesome category

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The theme issue ‘Making Space for the New State Capitalism’ brings together insights from critical economic geography and heterodox political economy through a series of papers to be published in three installments, each accompanied by an introductory essay written by the guest editors. In this, the first of these introductory commentaries, we highlight some of the potentially productive ambiguities that accompany the new state capitalism rubric. Subsequent introductory commentaries will consider the consequences of embracing relationality, spatiotemporality and uneven development (along with the second group of papers); and the challenges and opportunities of thinking conjuncturally (with the third group of papers).

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