Essays about: "embedded liberalism"

Found 3 essays containing the words embedded liberalism.

  1. 1. Can net transfers buy support from anxious citizens? A micro-level test of the embedded liberalism thesis in the European Union

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

    Author : Max Reppen; Christine Östlund; [2013]
    Keywords : risk; trade attitudes; EU; European Union;

    Abstract : This thesis examines the hypothesis of whether or not risk aversion, as apersonality trait, has a negative impact on evaluations of EU membership.Furthermore, building upon the 'embedded liberalism thesis' as introducedby Ruggie (1982), we hypothesise that net transfers from the EU budget mayattenuate the presumed negative impact of risk aversion on attitudes towardsthe EU. READ MORE

  3. 2. 'New Europeans' for the 'New European Economy' : Citizenship Discourses and the Lisbon Agenda

    University essay from Ekonomiska institutionen

    Author : Sandy Hager; [2006]
    Keywords : European citizenship; Lisbon Agenda; EU transnational business; European Commission; critical theory; cultural political economy; neo-Gramscian IPE; discourse analysis; embedded neo-liberalism; neo-liberal communitarianism;

    Abstract : Combining insights from critical discourse analysis (CDA) and neo-Gramscian IPE theory, this paper puts forth a cultural political economy (CPE) perspective to analyse the discursive articulation of ‘European subjects’ in the context of the EU’s Lisbon Agenda modernisation strategy. It is suggested here that the transformation proposed in Lisbon to the new economic imaginary of the knowledge based economy (KBE), depends on ‘new subjects’ and thus new discursive constructions of identities to reflect the new economic and social formations it envisions. READ MORE

  4. 3. European Social Model: New Social Policy Paradigm

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Statsvetenskapliga institutionen

    Author : Acar Kutay; [2006]
    Keywords : European Social Model; ; Welfare State; ; New Social Policy Paradigm; ; European Employment Strategy; Activation.; Political and administrative sciences; Statsvetenskap; förvaltningskunskap; Law and Political Science;

    Abstract : The rhetoric of the "European Social Model" came into existence in 1990s. On the one hand it emphasizes the social character of the Europe which is based on the embedded liberalism- regulation of economy through institutions-, and de-commodification- not letting alone the individual against the market forces. READ MORE