Bailey, D.J. and Shibata, S. orcid.org/0000-0002-5944-9721 (2019) Austerity and anti-austerity : the political economy of refusal in ‘low-resistance’ models of capitalism. British Journal of Political Science, 49 (2). pp. 683-709. ISSN 0007-1234
Abstract
In contrast to much of the political economy literature, this article explores acts of refusal that obstruct attempts to impose austerity measures on advanced industrial democracies. It thereby complements a literature that has thus far focused far more upon the (apparently unobstructed) imposition of austerity. In doing so, it uses two typically ‘low-resistance’ countries – Japan and the UK –as least-likely cases and finds that austerity is rarely uncontested. Using fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis, it highlights the ‘causal recipes’ sufficient for both (1) anti-austerity activity to have a significant impact on austerity proposals and (2) the smooth (unobstructed) imposition of austerity. The politics of austerity is shown to be better understood as an iterative interaction between proposals for austerity and the acts of refusal they encounter. These obstacles to austerity appear more straightforward to activate effectively in Japan’s coordinated model of capitalism, whilst the UK’s liberal market economy tends to generate more innovative forms of dissent that (if they are sufficiently militant) provide an alternative route towards the obstruction of austerity.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2017 Cambridge University Press. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in British Journal of Political Science. Article available under the terms of the CC-BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). |
Keywords: | austerity; anti-austerity; political economy; UK; Japan; fsQCA |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of East Asian Studies (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 09 Sep 2021 08:17 |
Last Modified: | 09 Sep 2021 08:17 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press (CUP) |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1017/s0007123416000624 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:177976 |
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