PANEL PROPOSAL (SLAS 2011)
“Situating State Governance in the Global Political Economy: Perspectives on
Neoliberalism and Neostructuralism in Latin America”
The ‘third’ wave globalisation literature emerging since the late 1990s has
attempted to explain how states respond to the pressures and challenges of
neoliberal globalisation. Particularly, there has been a robust critique
against the ‘convergence’ hypothesis, which argues that countries move
towards similar production and organisation structures as a result of
external pressures. In explaining state-market relations, and the
consequential role of the state, the hyperglobalist position has deployed
the concepts of the ‘competition state’ and the ‘regulatory state’ to
analyse how market reforms have been implemented in transforming the state.
At the heart of the globalisation-state debate is the critical question on
alternatives to globalisation. Why do Latin American elites find themselves
at odds in constructing politico-economic alternatives to neoliberal
globalisation?
The panel explores this question on contemporary state governance in Latin
America by pinning down the international and domestic factors contributing
to the difficult tread of moving towards a post-neoliberal model of
development. In so doing, we situate the current efforts of some Latin
American countries to construct a new social contract that offers new terms
of state-market-labour relations. It brings us back to the question of
structure, contingency and politics of neoliberalism: how far can we
genuinely claim new alternatives of development if state strategies are
still ‘locked in’ dependent development under conditions of neoliberalism?
We are interested on theoretical, comparative, and case studies that link
global political economy literature to the analysis of institutions, path
dependency, and role of agency in state governance. Critical IPE draws clear
analysis of which actors, interests, and ideas shape the models of
governance, and the extent globalisation has discursively and materially
affected policy outcomes. Latin America is particularly interesting because
it experiences a gradual process of state-controlled governance of
resources, and this coincides with the social change agendas of leftist
governments. In particular the panel seeks analysis of the following themes:
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Political discourses held about globalisation on state reforms,
macro-economic management, and redistributive politics
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Defining the contours of ‘post-neoliberal’ governance in Latin America
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Analysis of variations of institutional responses to the question of
governance showing the connection between domestic and international levels
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Exploration of how foreign and/or domestic firms organise themselves to
respond to globalisation of production
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Exploration of competing policy ideas around the merits of natural
resource-based economic development
Jojo Nem Singh
University of Sheffield, UK
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Eliza Massi
School for Oriental and African Studies, UK
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Jewellord T. Nem Singh
PhD Student & Graduate Teaching Associate
Department of Politics
The University of Sheffield
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