The Internationalization of Palace Wars

The Custodians of State Policies Dealing With the Financial Crisis: A Comparison Between France and the US

“…Moreover, when considering, as given, the defeat of those elites, who have delivered "welfare statism" policies since the end of the Second World War (Thoenes, 1966), it seems to us that those authors understate the fact that crises also make bureaucracies and their elites prosper (Rueschmeyer, 2005). While it remains incontrovertible that during the 1980s, the Neo-Liberals began the dismantling of democratic states (Suleiman, 2003;Dezalay & Garth, 2002), we should beware underestimating the role that some groups of vocal elites have played by instigating reforms aimed at reshaping the public sector's regulatory powers (Genieys & Smyrl, 2008;Genieys & Hassenteufel, 2015). More generally, these emerging custodians of state policies also shed light on just how modern states are transforming themselves in a context of economic liberalism to which they have been subject over the past 30 years (Fourcade, 2009;King & Legalès, 2011).…”

“…This phenomenon despite its various manifestations affected some new democracies on the American sub-continent (Dezalay & Garth, 2002), where applying the "Washington consensus" formula led to actual "palace wars" within the entourage of those government chiefs, wars between those "traditional" state elites of gentlemen of law trained at law schools, with a legal education obtained at European universities, and those Chicago boys 4 converted to the neoliberal doxa. In these countries, traditional bureaucratic elites' power and influence, often rooted in authoritarian regimes, was soon obliterated by new elites, who basking in democratic ideals were to denounce the authoritarian and bureaucratic state as arbitrary and inefficient and so, impose ultra liberal policies (Dezalay & Garth, 2002, p. 65).…”

“…Partly, one could argue, these custodians have emerged in the wake of the democratic state's crumbling bureaucratic foundations, which these revolutions set off (Suleiman, 2003;Fukuyama, 2004); partly, the rise of these custodians' influence can be seen as a way of taming the new super rich and returning oligarchs' grasp of state power (Page & Winter, 2009;Winter, 2011;Page, Bartels, & Seawright, 2013;Mizruchi, 2013). Moreover, following the 2008 global economic crisis and rolling out of austerity measures (Blyth, 2013), elites of the state seem to have become a "political species" of their own, now under threat of extinction (Dezalay & Garth, 2002).…”

A Construção da Autonomia Política do Judiciário na América Latina: Um Estudo Comparado entre Argentina, Brasil, Chile, Colômbia e Venezuela

“…A influência estadunidense alcançou também as decisões da Corte Suprema de Justicia de La Nación Argentina que sustentava uma concepção liberal inflexível atuando como defensora da propriedade individual (Del Río, 2012) 4 . A estabilidade e o crescimento econômico do país entre 1860 e 1930, construídos em paralelo a essa exportação de ideias e instituições (Dezalay e Garth, 2002), possibilitaram à Corte manter relativa independência e autonomia jurisdicional. Conformou-se, assim, como Além disso, a Corte argentina foi capaz de acompanhar as transformações sociais pelas quais o país passou em meados da década de 1910 -quando a república oligárquica foi substituída por uma democracia de massas -abandonando, assim, a ideologia liberal para se orientar a favor de uma maior intervenção do Estado na economia (Del Rio, 2012).…”

Για Την Κατασκευή Ενός Ευρωπαϊκού Χώρου Των Κοινωνικών Επιστημών: Στοιχεία Ενός Ερευνητικού Προγράμματος

“…Η συγκριτική βάση μιας τέτοιου είδους μελέτης θα συνέβα λε ώστε οι διάφορες εθνικές πολιτικές να υποβληθούν σε μια αυστηρή κρι τική αποτίμηση, να τοποθετηθούν στο πλαίσιο των σχέσεων συμβολικού α νταγωνισμού μεταξύ των κρατών, να εκτιμηθούν οι δυνάμεις και οι αδυνα μίες τους και, την ίδια στιγμή, να τεθούν οι προϋποθέσεις των θεμελίων μιας ρεαλιστικής ευρωπαϊκής πολιτικής, ικανής να ενσωματώσει ό,τι καλό έχουν επινοήσει και εφαρμόσει οι διαφορετικές παραδόσεις σε θέματα εκπαίδευ σης. Μιας πολιτικής την οποία το υπό έγερση και κατασκευή ευρωπαϊκό κράτος δεν είναι δυνατόν να αποφύγει, εάν δεν θέλει να κινδυνεύσει να δημιουργήσει ένα 'κοινό αγαθό' το οποίο θα αναμεταφράζει, επί της ουσίας, τους οικονομικούς και συμβολικούς συσχετισμούς δυνάμεων μεταξύ των κρατών (Dezalay & Garth 2002).…”