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Neoliberal Hegemony
Neoliberalism is fast becoming the dominant ideology of our age, yet politicians, businessmen and academics rarely identify themselves with it and even political forces critical of it continue to carry out neoliberal policies around the globe. How can we make sense of this paradox? Who actually are "the neoliberals"? This is the first explanation of neoliberal hegemony, which systematically considers and analyzes the networks and organizations of around 1.000 self conscious neoliberal intellectuals organized in the Mont Pèlerin Society. This book challenges simplistic understandings of neoliberalism. It underlines the variety of neoliberal schools of thought, the various approaches of its p...
A Persistent Revolution
Sheppard explores Mexico’s profound political, social, and economic changes through the lens of the persistent political power of Mexican revolutionary nationalism. By examining the major events and transformations in Mexico since 1968, he shows how historical myths such as the Mexican Revolution, Benito Juárez, and Emiliano Zapata as well as Catholic nationalism emerged during historical-commemoration ceremonies, in popular social and anti-neoliberal protest movements, and in debates between commentators, politicians, and intellectuals. Sheppard provides a new understanding of developments in Mexico since 1968 by placing these events in their historical context. The work further contributes to understandings of nationalism more generally by showing how revolutionary nationalism in Mexico functioned during a process of state dismantling rather than state building, and it shows how nationalism could serve as a powerful tool for non-elites to challenge the actions of those in power or to justify new citizenship rights as well as for elites seeking to ensure political stability.
On Track Or Off The Rails?
In order to achieve a transition from a transport system centred on the individual car to one centred on (electrified) rail a new focus in infrastructure planning is needed. The preparation of project proposals for the Federal Transport Infrastructure Plan 2030 on the sub-national level in Germany provides an opportunity to study decision-making processes in ministries and compare their respective results in this respect. Using document analysis, expert interviews, qualitative content analysis as well as QCA, this thesis in political science analyses how decision-making processes within bureaucracies impact the decision output in transport infrastructure planning. It contributes to the discussion on bureaucracy-politics interactions that is relevant beyond the German case. One result is that ministries tend to use complex decision-making processes for topics deemed salient as long as the available capacity permits it. Consequently, in order to conduct legitimacy-enhancing steps – such as public participation – a well-funded bureaucracy is indispensable.
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The Imperial Mode of Living
Our Unsustainable Life: Why We Can't Have Everything We Want With the concept of the Imperial Mode of Living, Brand and Wissen highlight the fact that capitalism implies uneven development as well as a constant and accelerating universalisation of a Western mode of production and living. The logic of liberal markets since the 19thCentury, and especially since World War II, has been inscribed into everyday practices that are usually unconsciously reproduced. The authors show that they are a main driver of the ecological crisis and economic and political instability. The Imperial Mode of Living implies that people's everyday practices, including individual and societal orientations, as well as...
The Mobilities Paradigm
Over the last two decades, the conceptualisation and empirical analysis of mobilities of people, objects and symbols has become an important strand of social science. Yet, the increasing importance of mobilities in all parts of the social does not only happen as observable practices in the material world but also takes place against the background of changing discourses, scientific theories and conceptualisations and knowledge. Within the formation of these mobilities discourses, the social sciences constitute a relevant actor. Focussing on mobility as an object of knowledge from a Foucauldian perspective rather than a given entity within the historical contingency of movement, this book asks: How do discourses and ideologies structure the normative substance, social meanings, and the lived reality of mobilities? What are the real world effects of/on the will and the ability to be mobile? And, how do these lived realities, in turn, invigorate or interfere with certain discourses and ideologies of mobility?
Transport in Capitalism
Transport is the only sector that has not yet contributed to the reduction of carbon dioxide emissions. To understand why sustainable transport has not been developed yet, Oliver Schwedes highlights the special features of the transport sector and describes the political conditions for a successful change in transport development. He makes clear that technical innovations alone will not be enough; rather, transport policy must be practised as social policy.
Die Politik der Bundesländer
Dieser Band bietet einen umfassenden Überblick über die Politik in den Bundesländern. Er beschreibt die Unterschiede in Staatstätigkeit und Institutionenpolitik, die zwischen den Bundesländern bestehen, und analysiert theoriegeleitet die Erklärungsfaktoren dieser Variation. Außerdem geht er auf die Veränderungen ein, welche sich in Folge der Föderalismusreform ergeben. Angesichts der in vielen Politikfeldern großen Bedeutung der Landespolitik und der bislang nur sporadischen und vorwiegend deskriptiven Befassung der Politikwissenschaft mit ihr schließt der Band eine bedeutende Forschungslücke.
Handbuch Verkehrspolitik
Kein Politikfeld ist mit so hohen Investitionen verbunden wie die Verkehrspolitik. Neue Straßen, neue Bahntrassen, aber auch Flughäfen bestimmen das Gesicht von Städten und Regionen. Wer sind die treibenden Kräfte für Verkehr in modernen Gesellschaften? Was kann Verkehrspolitik angesichts eigendynamischer ökonomischer und sozialer Entwicklungen überhaupt leisten? Welche Rolle spielen im föderalen System die Kommunen und die Regionen, in denen der größte Teil der Verkehrsleistung erbracht wird? Wie sehen nicht intendierte Effekte der Verkehrspolitik aus? Wie wirken Herausforderungen wie der Klimawandel, das Altern und Schrumpfen der Gesellschaft und die Krise der öffentlichen Haush...
Die Privatisierung der Deutschen Bahn
Vorwort Vorwort Vorwort Seit den frühen 1990er-Jahren haben wechselnde parlamentarische Mehrheiten teilweise unter Einbindung der Opposition die Privatisierung der früheren B- des- und Reichsbahn (DDR) trotz eines wachsenden Widerstandes in weiten Teilen der Bevölkerung vorangetrieben. Umso dringlicher erscheint es heute, eine Zwischenbilanz aus politisch-ökonomischer Sicht zu ziehen, die das Pro und Kontra dieser Reorganisation des Bahnwesens abwägt, den Stand des Verfahrens darlegt und mögliche Alternativen zur materiellen Privatisierung der Deutschen Bahn (DB) AG skizziert. Die vorliegende Arbeit zeugt davon, dass der Verfasser in mehr als vierj- riger Forschungsarbeit bemüht war, ...
