The Crisis Imperative : Crisis Rhetoric and Welfare State Reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Early 1990s

Kuipers, Sanneke

doi:10.5117/9789053568088

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“…As such, it was rhetorically prudent for Australian leaders to highlight the benefits of the package to particular, high-priority policy sectors. This highlights the importance of matching the crisis narrative to the felt experiences of those on the ground (Kuipers 2006)-something at which some leaders, such as Obama, excelled and others, such as Brown and Harper, failed.…”

Section: What Now? Rhetoric Of Policy and Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…When analogies are widely challenged, they backfire. When they appeal to universal symbols and are carefully crafted and timed, however, their metaphorical power in weaving a crisis narrative (Kuipers 2006) can do more to shape public perceptions of a crisis than any set of facts and charts is able to.…”

Section: What Now? Rhetoric Of Policy and Reformmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In other words, they seek to 'exploit' the disruption of 'governance as usual' that emergencies and disturbances entail: to defend and strengthen their positions and authority, to attract or deflect public attention, to get rid of old policies and sow the seeds of new ones (Keeler 1993). When a particular 'crisis narrative' takes hold, it can be an important force for non-incremental changes in policy fields that are normally stabilised by the forces of path dependence, inheritance and veto-playing (Hay 2002;Kay 2006;Kuipers 2006).…”

Section: Crises As Political Battlegroundsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Hart¹,

Tindall²

2009

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Section: What Now? Rhetoric Of Policy and Reformmentioning

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Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

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Tindall²

2009

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“…Hay acknowledges that the material and ideational are dialectically related, and argues that the ideational realm has 'real' effects on the material world. However, as Kuipers (2006) argues, there are constraints on policy change and narratives resulting from the uneven distribution of resources and that this is weakly conceptualised in the SRA model. Jessop and Hay's emphasis on strategy largely brackets out the effects of natural resources, material artefacts and physical processes.…”

Section: Materiality and The Strategic Relational Approachmentioning

confidence: 99%

Structure, agency and post-Fukushima nuclear policy: an alliance-context-actantiality model of political change

Cotton

2014

Journal of Risk Research

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The Fukushima Daichii nuclear disaster has radically reshaped domestic Japanese energy policy, political economy and citizen-state relations within a very short time period. This destabilised period of post-Fukushima nuclear policy is considered in meta-theoretical terms, drawing upon the work of Colin Hay in describing a Punctuated Evolution model of stability and change. This in turn, draws upon the concepts of structure and agency, and the material and ideational. I assess and apply Jessop and Hay's Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) to resolving these issues, with reference to the Fukushima disaster throughout. The ontological weaknesses of the SRA are discussed, namely the weak conceptualisation of 'the material', leading to the construction of a new hybrid model. Hay's concept of Structure-StrategyAgency is augmented into one of Alliance-Context-Actantiality; drawing upon concepts from Actor Network Theory to better articulate the role of artefacts, physical and material processes in influencing stability and change in risk politics.Key words: Fukushima, nuclear energy, Strategic Relational Approach, Actor Network Theory. Structure, agency and post-Fukushima nuclear policy: an Alliance-Context-Actantiality model of political change AbstractThe Fukushima Daichii nuclear disaster has radically reshaped domestic Japanese energy policy, political economy and citizen-state relations within a very short time period. This destabilised period of post-Fukushima nuclear policy is considered in meta-theoretical terms, drawing upon the work of Colin Hay in describing a Punctuated Evolution model of stability and change. This in turn, draws upon the concepts of structure and agency, and the material and ideational. I assess and apply Jessop and Hay's Strategic Relational Approach (SRA) to resolving these issues, with reference to the Fukushima disaster throughout. The ontological weaknesses of the SRA are discussed, namely the weak conceptualisation of 'the material', leading to the construction of a new hybrid model. Hay's concept of Structure-StrategyAgency is augmented into one of Alliance-Context-Actantiality; drawing upon concepts from Actor Network Theory to better articulate the role of artefacts, physical and material processes in influencing stability and change in risk politics.

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“…There are several reasons why a crisis can affect the politics of social spending. First, a crisis raises social concerns to the forefront of the policymaking agenda, thus acting as a catalyst for welfare state action (Kingdon 1995;Kuipers 2006;Vis and van Kersbergen 2007;Vis et al 2011;Singer 2011). Second, crises can upset prevailing ideas and policies.…”

Section: Partisan Politics and Crisismentioning

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Political parties as drivers of post-crisis social spending in liberal welfare states

McManus

2017

Comp Eur Polit

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In the aftermath of the global economic crisis, the challenges facing welfare states are unprecedented. While government leaders have been in broad agreement that the severity of the recession called for decisive actions to limit the costs of the crisis, national responses have differed significantly. This article seeks to explain these divergent patterns and answer the critical question: how has the crisis affected the politics of social spending across liberal welfare states? While political conflict over social spending may increase across all countries in the wake of an economic crises, partisanship is expected to have a stronger effect in liberal welfare states, due to weak automatic stabilizer effects and a reliance on discretionary spending. This research tests the effects of political parties on social spending across nine liberal welfare states (Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, South Korea, Switzerland, the UK, and the USA) during the pre-crisis (1990-2007) and post-crisis (2008-2013) periods. It also provides in-depth analysis of the USA and the UK, two representative liberal welfare states who adopted highly dissimilar post-crisis social spending. The findings demonstrate that while political parties were not correlated with social spending during the pre-crisis period, after the global economic crisis they were significant in influencing social spending levels. This indicates an important shift in political dynamics across liberal welfare states over time that has not been fully accounted for by the existing literature.

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The Crisis Imperative : Crisis Rhetoric and Welfare State Reform in Belgium and the Netherlands in the Early 1990s

Cited by 52 publications

References 18 publications

Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Framing the Global Economic downturn : Crisis rhetoric and the politics of recessions

Structure, agency and post-Fukushima nuclear policy: an alliance-context-actantiality model of political change

Political parties as drivers of post-crisis social spending in liberal welfare states

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