Economic Patriotism in Open Economies
The recent financial crisis has demonstrated more than ever that governments seek to steer their economies rather than surrendering to the free play of market forces. Despite the ambitions of international economic cooperation, such interventionism is decidedly local. Some politicians even proudly evoke economic patriotism to justify their choices.
This volume links this phenomenon to a specific set of tensions between economic and political boundaries the paradox of neo-liberal democracy and argues that political interventionism in open markets is ubiquitous. The mandate of politicians is to defend the economic interests of their constituents under conditions where large parts of economic governance are no longer exclusively within their control. Economic patriotism is one possible reaction to this tension. As old-style industrial policy and interventionism gained a bad reputation, governments had to become creative to assure traditional economic policy objectives with new means.
However, economic patriotism is more than just a fashionable word or a fig leaf for protectionism. This volume employs the term to signal two distinctions: the diversity of policy content and the multiplicity of territorial units it can refer to. Comparing economic interventionism across countries and sectors, it becomes clear that economic liberalism will always be accompanied by counter-movements that appeal to territorial images.
This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of European Public Policy.
Ben Clift is Associate Professor of Political Economy in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Warwick.
Cornelia Woll is Associate Research Professor at Sciences Po and co-directs the Max Planck Sciences Po Center in Paris.
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