Questioning the ‘common sense’: Was Scottish independence really an alternative to UK neoliberalisation?

Paterson, Bill

doi:10.1177/0309816815607245

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“…Regarding tax reforms and neoliberalism, from 1970, after the period of valuation of the post-war welfare state, restrictions on social policies expanded again (Bresser-Pereira, 2018; Kerstenetzky & Guedes, 2018;Piketty, 2014). Regarding neoliberalism, Paterson (2015) emphasizes that, in addition to the free market, it is always in the process of evolution, seeking, based on new regulations, to maintain the dominance of capital over labor. It seeks to include the private agent in sectors previously controlled by the State and to strengthen public agendas of reformist actions disciplined by the market.…”

Section: Need For Resources Budget Disputes and Austeritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Crowding-out effect between income policies and public services budgets in OECD countries

Botelho,

Costa,

Louzano

et al. 2024

Rev. Cat. Cien. Cont.

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Challenges such as globalization and the digital economy are affecting the labor market and causing social exclusion. Thus, the relevance of income policies, which are responsible for the citizens’ financial security, is understood. This study aimed to evaluate the budget expansion of income policies between 1970 and 2019 and verify if there is a crowding-out effect between their budget and public services from 2000 to 2019 in OECD countries. The theoretical framework addressed the welfare state, income policies, budget disputes and austerity, and the crowding-out and crowding-in (complementarity) effects. Methodologically, descriptive and graphical analyses, correlation analyses, Granger causality tests, and GMM system short panel regression were used. The results indicated an expansion of income policy budgets, emphasizing investments in social security and pension systems. Also, a mixed relationship was observed between the acceptance of the crowding-out hypothesis and income policies and public services, with a tendency to exclude public services for expansion in income policies. Limitations were observed due to the lack of some data from the broad database used.

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Section: Need For Resources Budget Disputes and Austeritymentioning

confidence: 99%

Crowding-out effect between income policies and public services budgets in OECD countries

Botelho,

Costa,

Louzano

et al. 2024

Rev. Cat. Cien. Cont.

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“…The SNP is the most formal and bureaucratic in form of our three cases, and also the longest-lived: founded in 1934, it has been the party of government in Scotland from 2007, and from 2014, is a minority government under First Minister Nicola Sturgeon. In recent years, the SNP has defined itself as a 'left of centre, social democratic and progressive party' (SNP 2017), although this is combined with a commitment to some neoliberal orthodoxies (Paterson, 2015). We thus treat the SNP as an exemplar of (qualified) social democracy.…”

Section: Applying the Expanded Marriage Metaphor To The Scottishmentioning

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“…In public policy terms, ‘[e]quality for women is at the heart of the SNP’s vision for a fairer Scotland’ (SNP, 2017b), with interviewees P2, P4, P6 and P7 citing a range of policies as evidence of this claim, from the flagship childcare policy, through to the decision to use the language of ‘social security’ regards welfare reform, to the agenda on violence against women and girls. However, it can be argued that egalitarian public policies exist in tension with the SNP commitment to neoliberal economic policy (Paterson, 2015). In sum, there is still some way to go to institutionalise an egalitarian structure in all domains of this political marriage.…”

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Feminism and Solidarity on the Left: Rethinking the Unhappy Marriage Metaphor

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In the context of efforts to revive and reconfigure the left, fraught solidarity relations between feminism and other left forces are again under the political spotlight. This article revisits the widespread use of the ‘unhappy marriage’ metaphor to characterise these relations, given that metaphors play a significant role in structuring political discourse and action. We argue that the metaphor has been used in uncritical and limiting ways, and turn to feminist reconfigurations of the institutions of marriage to develop a more expansive, reflexive conceptual lens. We then apply this lens to three case studies of left organising in Scotland around the time of the 2012–2014 Scottish independence referendum, showing that the expanded marriage metaphor captures a more complex story of solidarity relations. Nonetheless, aspects of the marriage metaphor remain irredeemable, and we end with a call for the continued development of alternative frameworks that imagine political solidarity differently.

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“…It had a set of policy initiatives to address "low productivity, unemployment and economic stagnation throughout the EU". 47 It delineated the strategic goal of "becom[ing] the most competitive and dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world, capable of sustainable economic growth with more and better jobs and greater social cohesion". 48 To achieve this, it embraced three important structural reforms: further market opening and deregulation, macroeconomic discipline, and the modernisation of social systems.…”

Section: Before the Eurozone Crisismentioning

confidence: 99%

Neoliberalizmin Özelleştirme Yoluyla Pekiştirilmesi: Avro Alanı Krizi sonrasında AB

Duman¹

2019

Uluslararası İlişkiler Dergisi

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This article offers an inquiry into the increasing importance of privatisation policies in the European Union (EU). It evaluates the emphasis on international competitiveness and market efficiency to offer a comparative analysis of commodification, marketisation, liberalisation and privatisation policies in the pre-and post-crisis EU. It states that the EU introduced new mechanisms to explicitly promote privatisation policies in its member states after the Eurozone crisis. The article concludes that the EU's lead in privatisation has functioned as a disciplinary mechanism for the member states to introduce and implement extensive privatisation policies. The EU has tended to consolidate neoliberalism through privatisation after the Eurozone crisis. Neoliberalizmin Özelleştirme Yoluyla Pekiştirilmesi:Avro Alanı Krizi sonrasında AB ÖZET Makale, Avrupa Birliği'nde (AB) özelleştirmenin artan önemine odaklanmaktadır. Uluslararası rekabet ve piyasa verimliliğine verilen önemi değerlendirmekte; Avro Alanı krizi öncesi ve sonrası dönemde AB'nde metalaştırma, piyasalaştırma, liberalleşme ve özelleştirme politikalarını karşılaştırmalı olarak analiz etmektedir. Bu kapsamda, AB'nin kriz sonrasında üye ülkelerde özelleştirme politikalarını teşvik etmek amacıyla yeni mekanizmalar sunduğunu belirtmektedir. Makale, AB'nin özelleştirme konusundaki öncülüğünün, üye ülkelerin kapsamlı politikalar sunması ve uygulamasında disiplin edici bir mekanizma işlevi gördüğünü öne sürmektedir. AB'nin kriz sonrası dönemde özelleştirme politikaları yoluyla neoliberalizmi pekiştirme eğilimi gösterdiğini ifade etmektedir.

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Questioning the ‘common sense’: Was Scottish independence really an alternative to UK neoliberalisation?

Cited by 7 publications

References 43 publications

Crowding-out effect between income policies and public services budgets in OECD countries

Crowding-out effect between income policies and public services budgets in OECD countries

Feminism and Solidarity on the Left: Rethinking the Unhappy Marriage Metaphor

Neoliberalizmin Özelleştirme Yoluyla Pekiştirilmesi: Avro Alanı Krizi sonrasında AB

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