Handbook on Critical Political Economy and Public Policy

Christoph Scherrer, Ana Garcia, Joscha Wullweber (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

520 Seiten

2023
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-80037-377-8 (ISBN)

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This comprehensive and stimulating Handbook examines the contribution of political economy to public policy. It provides an overview of several strands of critical political economy, supported by case studies from OECD countries, Latin America, South Africa, and South and East Asia.

With discussions on key theories of political economy, the Handbook introduces cultural and feminist political economies, engaging critically with ordoliberalism and New Public Management. Chapters feature discussions on political economic approaches to the global division of labor, financialization and dispossession in Latin America, ecological perspectives on sustainability in China, global exploitation chains in agriculture, and postcolonial criticisms of economic development. The Handbook concludes with an exploration of the relationship between political economy and social policy, global health, and public policies.

Providing a combination of critical engagement with the various theories of political economy and their application to key economic policies, this will be essential reading for students and academics in comparative politics, economics and finance, international relations, political economy, public policy, and political science. Policymakers interested in addressing socially and environmentally unsustainable practices will also find this an illuminating and informative resource.

Edited by Christoph Scherrer, Professor Emeritus of Globalization and Politics, University of Kassel, Non-Resident Senior Fellow, Kassel Institute for Sustainability and Associate Fellow, Global Labour University, Germany, Ana Garcia, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Institute of the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro and Professor, Graduate Program in Social Sciences, Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and Joscha Wullweber, Heisenberg Professor of Politics, Transformation and Sustainability, Department of Philosophy, Politics and Economics, Witten/Herdecke University, Germany

Contents:

1 Introduction to the Handbook on Critical Political Economy and Public Policy 1
Christoph Scherrer, Ana Garcia and Joscha Wullweber

PART I THEORIES OF POLITICAL ECONOMY WITH PUBLIC
POLICY IMPLICATIONS
2 Plurality of political economy approaches to the global division of labor 20
Christoph Scherrer
3 The cultural political economy approach to public policy 36
Bob Jessop and Ngai-Ling Sum
4 Institutionalist, regulationist and dependency approaches to transition
countries’ economic policies 49
Joachim Becker
5 COVID-19 and the gender dilemma: blind spots in both
macroeconomics and feminist economics 65
Brigitte Young
6 Ordoliberalism’s advice for economic policymaking 80
Pavlos Roufos
7 What is neoliberal about new public management? 95
Sahil Jai Dutta, Samuel Knafo and Ian Lovering

PART II METHODS
8 Historical-materialist policy analysis of climate change policies 110
Etienne Schneider, Alina Brad, Ulrich Brand, Mathias Krams and Valerie Lenikus
9 Beyond methodological Fordism: the case for incorporated comparisons 127
Alexander Gallas

PART III ENVIRONMENT
10 Land grabbing, financialization and dispossession in the 21st century:
new and old forms of land control in Latin America 144
Karina Kato and Sergio Leite
11 Extractive economies and public policies: critical perspectives from
Latin America 159
Bruno Milanez and Ana Garcia
12 Ecological perspectives on sustainability in China 176
Lau Kin Chi
13 Looking south: megaprojects, borders and (in)mobilities 186
Ana Esther Ceceña and Sergio Prieto Díaz

PART IV FINANCE
14 Challenges for monetary policies in the 21st century: financial crises
and shadow banking 204
Joscha Wullweber
15 Governance of the eurozone in the face of transnational crises dynamics 219
Hans-Jürgen Bieling
16 Chinese capitalism and the global economic order: the impact of
China’s rise on global economic regulation 232
Jenny Simon
17 Taming dollarization hysteresis: evidence from post-socialist countries 247
Ia Eradze

PART V LABOUR
18 Global exploitation chains in agriculture 262
Praveen Jha and Paris Yeros
19 The development of labor policies in China: from passive revolution to
eroding hegemony 279
Elaine Sio-ieng Hui
20 The political economy of minimum wage policies 293
Hansjörg Herr
21 Just transitions: a historical relations analysis 310
Dimitris Stevis

PART VI TAXATION
22 Critical political economy of taxation 327
Hanna Lierse
23 Global tax governance 341
Matti Ylönen and Lauri Finér
24 Globalization, international tax policy and the OECD 356
Lyne Latulippe

PART VII TRADE AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
25 Postcolonial critique of economic development 374
Aram Ziai
26 Economic cycles and rural policies in the People’s Republic of China 387
Sit Tsui, Yan Xiaohui, He Zhixiong and Wen Tiejun
27 Trade and investment agreements from a critical international political
economy perspective 402
Luciana Ghiotto
28 South Africa’s failed privatization, commercialization and deregulation
of network infrastructure 413
Greg Ruiters and Patrick Bond

PART VIII WELFARE
29 Care in global value chains 430
Christa Wichterich
30 The cultural political economy of housing policy in the era of the
Islamist Justice and Development Party in Turkey 446
Ismail Doga Karatepe
31 The financialization of social policy: an overview 461
Lena Lavinas, Lucas Bressan, Pedro Rubin and Ana Carolina Cordilha
32 The political economy of global health and public policies 476
Jameson Martins and Deisy de Freitas Lima Ventura

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Erscheinungsdatum	29.04.2023
Reihe/Serie	Handbooks of Research on Public Policy series
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	169 x 244 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Wirtschaft ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	1-80037-377-5 / 1800373775
ISBN-13	978-1-80037-377-8 / 9781800373778
Zustand	Neuware