Globalising failures

Perrons, Diane; Posocco, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.12.001

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“…Abstract models suggest that such economies are efficient only insofar as contracts are complete, so that rights and responsibilities are determined for all eventualities. In practice, asymmetric information and a wide range of externalities ensure that contracts are incomplete, with the result that market failure is frequent, especially in the worlds of finance, the protection of the environment, the provision of public goods and protection against social risks (Polanyi, 1944;Ostrom, 1990;Perrons and Posocco, 2009).…”

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Towards global convergence: Emerging economies, the rise of China and western sunset?

Dunford

Yeung

2010

European Urban and Regional Studies

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The financial crisis indicates the underlying bankruptcy of the last of a series of attempts to restore sustained growth in advanced countries since the end of the post-war Golden Age: Italian flexible specialization, Japanese and Rhine-style lean production, the new economy and Anglo-American financialization. Over the same period a number of emerging economies and in particular China have sustained high rates of growth. In the years to come, developed country growth is likely to remain slow because no alternative high-growth model is on the horizon. A country such as China conversely has the potential to continue to grow relatively fast provided it can profoundly alter its model of development in ways that address global and national imbalances. If it and other large emerging economies do achieve further sustained growth, this will in effect reverse the gap created by industrial revolution, colonialism and imperialism. The aim of this paper is to explain the reasons for and the possibilities of such global convergence, paying particular attention to the reasons for and implications of the financial crisis and the extent to which China’s fiscal stimulus contributes to a new model of Chinese development.

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Towards global convergence: Emerging economies, the rise of China and western sunset?

Dunford

Yeung

2010

European Urban and Regional Studies

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“…Failure and unsuccessful transfers are mentioned only rarely (for a notable exception, see Perrons and Posocco, 2009, and the corresponding special issue on "Globalizing Failures") and hardly elaborated on in research on mobile policies, despite very recent case studies regarding immobile sustainability policies by Carr (2013), McLean and Borén (2014) and Müller (2015) and early calls by Dolowitz and Marsh (2000) to explore the relationship between policy success and failure.…”

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“…While it is frequently stated that the processes of transfer and grounding of policies are complex and the outcomes far from secure (Peyroux et al, 2012; Robinson, 2011), the empirical focus in most cases is on transfers that are either more or less “successful” (Cook and Ward, 2012; Didier et al, 2012; Ward, 2006) or at least portrayed as such by their advocates (Binger, 2010; Brenner, 2010). Failure and unsuccessful transfers are mentioned only rarely (for a notable exception, see Perrons and Posocco, 2009, and the corresponding special issue on “Globalizing Failures”) and hardly elaborated on in research on mobile policies, despite very recent case studies regarding immobile sustainability policies by Carr (2013), McLean and Borén (2014) and Müller (2015) and early calls by Dolowitz and Marsh (2000) to explore the relationship between policy success and failure.…”

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“…By these terms we refer to a variety of moments in which the expected outcomes of a policy and its mobilization do not materialize. Failure, as Perrons and Posocco (2009: 132) point out, “exceeds the narrow ascription of policy malfunction or technical ineffectiveness and provides instead an opportunity to probe a plurality of situated understandings and interpretations”. By focusing on breaks, cuts, stoppages and detours we want to emphasize the contingencies – and particularly the contested character – of seemingly hegemonic policy patterns.…”

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Learning from failed policy mobilities: Contradictions, resistances and unintended outcomes in the transfer of “Business Improvement Districts” to Germany

Stein

Michel

Glasze

et al. 2016

European Urban and Regional Studies

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This paper contributes to the debates on policy mobilities by examining Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) in Germany as examples of contested, failed and unfinished travelling policies. Recent debates on policy mobilities opened a fruitful discussion on how policies are transferred from one place to another and the complex processes that rework places and policies in heterogeneous ways. While we are sympathetic to this literature, there are theoretical and empirical gaps to be addressed. It is frequently stated that processes around the transfer and grounding of policies are complex, and that outcomes are far from secure. However, the empirical focus in most cases is on transfers that are more or less "successful", or at least portrayed as being successful by their advocates. In contrast to this "success bias" in research and public discourse, we argue that it is helpful to focus more closely on failures, resistances and contradictions. Judging from work on the transfer of BIDs -an almost classical example of successfully mobilized urban policies -we argue that it is helpful to reflect on unfinished policy mobilities, that is, the failure of mobilized urban policies.

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“…From a systemic perspective, we add to a growing number of case studies which emphasise the reaction of small‐scale coffee producers to market shocks. We understand globalisation as ‘the contemporary transformation of economic, social and political relations across the globe arising from the increased intensity, frequency and speed of interconnections between people and places via flows of money, goods, services, people and ideas’ (Perrons and Posocco , 131). These transformations are intertwined, ‘creating complex patterns, spatially and temporally differentiated’ (Goodman and Watts , 10), and their consequences disrupt all aspects of socio‐environmental systems.…”

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A flexibility framework to understand the adaptation of small coffee and honey producers facing market shocks

Bathfield

Gasselin

López-Ridaura

et al. 2013

Geographical Journal

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Small‐scale coffee producers are particularly exposed to a very fluctuant market. The present work aims at characterising the adaptation of small‐scale coffee and honey producers to the 1999–2003 coffee crisis in the Guatemalan Highlands from a systemic and agronomical perspective. Working with a homogeneous sample of 34 families we identify up to 27 different flexibility mechanisms. A qualitative analysis of families' life histories was combined with classification methods. Besides confirming the importance of the availability resources and some well known adaptive responses, such as workload intensification, expenses reduction or the importance of social networks, the classification of households reveals a sequence in the implementation of flexibility mechanisms. The focus on the combination of coffee and honey productions also suggests changing the traditional approaches to agricultural processes toward the adoption of a more systemic perspective. The possible impacts of these findings on technical extension and construction of public policies are then discussed.

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Globalising failures

Cited by 8 publications

References 10 publications

Towards global convergence: Emerging economies, the rise of China and western sunset?

Towards global convergence: Emerging economies, the rise of China and western sunset?

Learning from failed policy mobilities: Contradictions, resistances and unintended outcomes in the transfer of “Business Improvement Districts” to Germany

A flexibility framework to understand the adaptation of small coffee and honey producers facing market shocks

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