Industrial policy and the British automotive industry under Margaret Thatcher

Pardi, Tommaso

doi:10.1080/00076791.2016.1223049

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“…In Thatcher’s first 3 years, the sum devoted to industrial policy doubled, and her governments, among other things, bailed out British Leyland to the tune of £990 million, rescued Harland and Wolff’s Belfast shipyard, wrote off £3.5 billion of state-owned British Steel’s capital, and guaranteed bank loans worth £200 million for International Computers Limited. Headline falls in industrial policy expenditure notwithstanding, the Thatcher governments continued to disburse sizable support to the automobile (Pardi, 2017), aerospace (Pourvand, 2013), defence (Johnson, 1991: 184), and property (Lee, 2010: 625) sectors among others.…”

Section: Uk Industrial Policy Under Thatchermentioning

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What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990

Woodward

Silverwood

2022

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Selective industrial policy in the United Kingdom is conventionally believed to have vanished prior to the global financial crisis. This article, in contrast, argues that industrial policy remained an intrinsic, if seldom acknowledged, element of neoliberal statecraft. The basis of this is a subterfuge, conceptualised here as a ‘dual industrial policy’, which we explore via an empirical focus on the Thatcher governments. Throughout this time, actions explicitly endorsed by governments as industrial policy generally corresponded with neoliberalism’s hostility to intervention. These conveniently distracted attention from a second set of policies which, although never codified by government as industrial policy, were intended to affect the allocation of resources between economic activity. Analysis of official government publications and expenditure reveals that industrial policy expenditure under Thatcher was far higher than customarily reported. The United Kingdom’s approach has important implications for debates about neoliberal resilience, especially neoliberalism’s capacity to conscript apparently contradictory ideas.

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Section: Uk Industrial Policy Under Thatchermentioning

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What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990

Woodward

Silverwood

2022

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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“…Considerar que a ordem econômica é inevitavelmente suscetível à regulação e à intervenção social do Estado (PO-LANYI, 2000; CANGIANI, 2012), não desincumbe qualquer análise de reconhecer nos mercados, além de máximas expressões do Capitalismo, estruturas sociais consistindo em papéis, convenções e disputas de poder (DOBBIN, 2004;PARDI, 2016). Nesse sentido, há duas premissas centrais na forma como os mercados se relacionam entre si e com as instituições.…”

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“…), e pela expansão dos segmentos de carros pequenos e de médio porte. Pardi (2016) assinala que, naquela conjuntura, o governo britânico estava disposto a não mais subsidiar empresas com dinheiro público, especialmente aquelas com elevada taxa de sindicalização dos trabalhadores e pouco eficientes, caso notório da BL. Mediante a crise dos fabricantes direção da Kia prevê, em 2018, multiplicar em duas vezes e meia o volume de vendas previsto para este ano.…”

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“…E seu encerramento foi seguido da elaboração de uma nova política para o setor -o Programa Rota 2030 -, que começou a vigorar oficialmente em julho de 2018. O artigo procurará interpretar a constituição do Inovar-Auto à luz de uma abordagem associada à sociologia dos mercados, dando prosseguimento a discussões empreendidas com o propósito de demarcar as estratégias dos chamados grupos automotivos em atuação no Brasil, visando "controlar os mercados usando seu tamanho, sua tecnologia e seu acesso ao governo para promover uma hierarquia entre incumbentes e desafiantes" DAUTER, 2012, p. 485). Em outros termos, conforme Pardi (2016), o esforço empenhado visa a mostrar como políticas industriais são feitas sob medida, para proteger interesses específicos. A hipótese lançada, portanto, sugere que o Inovar-Auto e mesmo o Rota 2030 re-sultaram de pressões e lobbies das corporações instaladas no Brasil há mais tempo, isto é, as first comers e as latecomers do setor automotivo.…”

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FORJANDO A POLÍTICA AUTOMOTIVA BRASILEIRA: INCUMBENTES E DESAFIANTES NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO PROGRAMA INOVAR-AUTO<br/><br/>FORGING BRAZILIAN AUTOMOTIVE POLICY: INCUMBENTS AND CHALLENGERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INOVAR-AUTO PROGRAM

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2021

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O artigo analisa a construção do Programa Inovar-Auto, política industrial brasileira cunhada com o propósito de incrementar os investimentos em pesquisa, desenvolvimento e engenharia na indústria automotiva. A discussão tem como finalidade contribuir para demarcar as estratégias corporativas dos grupos automobilísticos, indicando como as políticas industriais para o setor são moldadas sob medida, a fim de proteger os interesses das empresas há mais tempo em atuação no Brasil. O Inovar-Auto, por hipótese, resulta de processos sociais responsáveis por estruturar as relações entre organizações incumbentes e desafiantes em disputa no mercado automotivo. Em outros termos, o seu surgimento se deve à queda de preços decorrente da entrada de firmas desafiantes no mercado nacional, e da resposta dada pelas firmas incumbentes ao aumento da competição através do reforço de regras, leis de proteção e demais formas de poder capazes de impedir qualquer movimento de transformação dessa ordem econômica e social.AbstractThis paper analyses the construction of the Inovar-Auto programme, a Brazilian industrial policy devised with the goal of boosting investment in research, development and engineering in the automotive industry. The purpose of this discussion is that of contributing to define the corporate strategies of industrial groups in the automotive industry, showing how the industrial policies for the sector are carved out to measure, in order to protect the interests of those companies that have been in Brazil the longest. Inovar-Auto could possibly have resulted from social processes responsible for structuring the relationships between incumbent organisations and challengers within the automotive market. In other words, its appearance is due to the fall in prices resulting from the entry of new challengers onto the national market, and the response given by the incumbent companies to the increased competition, through reinforcement of rules, laws for protection, and other ways of being able to prevent any movement for the transformation of the economic and social order.

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Britain’s Car Industry: Policies, Positioning, and Perspectives

Coffey

Thornley

2019

New Frontiers of the Automobile Industry

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Industrial policy and the British automotive industry under Margaret Thatcher

Cited by 13 publications

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What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990

What we do in the shadows: dual industrial policy during the Thatcher governments, 1979–1990

FORJANDO A POLÍTICA AUTOMOTIVA BRASILEIRA: INCUMBENTES E DESAFIANTES NA CONSTRUÇÃO DO PROGRAMA INOVAR-AUTO<br/><br/>FORGING BRAZILIAN AUTOMOTIVE POLICY: INCUMBENTS AND CHALLENGERS IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE INOVAR-AUTO PROGRAM

Britain’s Car Industry: Policies, Positioning, and Perspectives

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