Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis

272 Pages·2017·8.121 MB·English

Transformations of the State
Series Editors
Achim Hurrelmann
Carleton University
Ottawa, Canada
Stephan Leibfried
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Kerstin Martens
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
Peter Mayer
University of Bremen
Bremen, Germany
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The modern state is under threat its powers increasingly eroded. This
series examines the current and future prospects for a traditional con-
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ception of the state to provide readers with the state of the art on the
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state of the state.
More information about this series at
http://www.springer.com/series/14399
Steffen Schneider (cid:129) Henning Schmidtke (cid:129) Sebastian Haunss (cid:129)
Jennifer Gronau
Editors
Capitalism and Its
Legitimacy in Times
of Crisis
Editors
SteffenSchneider HenningSchmidtke
SOCIUMResearchCenteronInequality BavarianSchoolofPublicPolicy,TUM
andSocialPolicy SchoolofGovernance
UniversityofBremen TechnicalUniversityofMunich
Bremen,Germany Munich,Germany
SebastianHaunss JenniferGronau
SOCIUMResearchCenteronInequality CentreforGlobalCooperationResearch
andSocialPolicy (Käte-Hamburger-Kolleg)
UniversityofBremen Duisburg,Germany
Bremen,Germany
TransformationsoftheState
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Series Editors Preface
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Overthepastfourcenturies,thenationalstatehasemergedastheworlds
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moste ectivemeansoforganizingsociety,butitscurrentstatusandfuture
are decidedly uncertain. Some scholars predict the total demise of the
national state as we know it, its powers eroded by a dynamic global
economyontheonehandandbythetransferofpoliticaldecision-making
tosupranationalbodiesontheother.Otheranalystspointouttheremark-
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ableresilienceofthestatescoreinstitutionsandassertthatevenintheage
ofglobalmarketsandpolitics,thestateremainstheultimateguarantorof
security, democracy, welfare and the rule of law, and will reassert itself.
Does either of these interpretations describe the future of the OECD
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worlds modern, liberal national state? Will the state soon be as obsolete
and irrelevant as an outdated computer? Should it be scrapped for some
newinvention,orcanitbeoverhauledandrejuvenated?Isthestateactually
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thrivingandstill ttoserve,justinneedofafewminorreforms,oristhere
someparadoxinvolvedthatallowsfornosuchsimplealternatives,assome
wouldhaveit(Rodrik 2011)?
In an attempt to address these questions, the analyses in the
Transformations of the State series separate the complex tangle of tasks
and functions that comprise the state into four manageable dimensions:
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the monopolization of the means of force;
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the rule of law, as prescribed and safeguarded by the constitution;
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the guarantee of democratic self-governance; and
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the provision of welfare and the assurance of social cohesion.
In the OECD world of the 1960s and 1970s, these four dimensions
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formed a synergetic constellation that emerged as the central, de ning
characteristic of the modern state. Books in the series report the results
of both empirical and theoretical studies of the transformations experi-
enced in each of these dimensions over the past few decades.
Stephan Leibfried and Michael Zürn (2005), Achim Hurrelmann
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et al. (2007), Heinz Rothgang and Ste en Schneider (2015) and
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Leibfried et al. (2015) de ne the basic concepts of state transformation
employed in all of these studies and provide an overview of the issues
addressed.Writtenbypoliticalscientists,lawyers,economistsandsociol-
ogists, the series tracks the development of the post-World War II
OECD state. Here, at last, is an up-to-date series of reports on the
state of the state and a crystal-ball glimpse into its future.
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Preface and Acknowledgements
This book concludes a research project on the legitimation ofdemocratic
nation states (Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, the United
States), international organizations (EU, G8, UN) and capitalism as an
economic regime. The project was directed by Frank Nullmeier, carried
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out at the Collaborative Research Centre Transformations of the State
(University of Bremen, Germany)and generously fundedbythe German
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Research Council (DFG) in the years 2003 2014. The ndings
of the project have been published in a number of joint articles and
books by the contributors to the present volume and previous members
oftheresearchteam;thesepublicationsnotablyincludeaneditedvolume
and a monograph published with Palgrave (Hurrelmann, Schneider and
ff
Ste ek 2007; Schneider et al. 2010; see also Hurrelmann et al. 2009;
Nullmeier et al. 2010).
Theeditorsofthepresentvolumewishtousetheopportunitytothank
Achim Hurrelmann, Zuzana Krell-Laluhová, Roland Lhotta, Martin
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Nonho and Achim Wiesner, who were collaborators of the project at
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di erent points in time. We also thank a number of student research
assistants who assisted us in retrieving and coding the text corpus on
whichthevolumeisbased,andinmanagingdata:WiebkeAnton,Anna
Braam, Clara Friedrich, Wolfgang Geißler, Kristen Isherwood, Isabelle
Kim,KlaraKopperschmidt,KatjaLamich,NoraSinner,SebastianStreb
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and Christoph Uhl. Dieter Wolf, the Collaborative Research Centres
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managingdirector,greatlyassistedtheresearchteaminsolvingadminis-
trative and funding issues. Particular thanks go to our former colleagues
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at the Collaborative Research Centre especially its speaker, Stephan
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Leibfried for many valuable discussions about problems of legitimacy
research,andtotheDFGforfundingthisendeavour.Finally,wewould
liketothankouranonymousreviewerfortheclosereadingofthemanu-
script and excellent comments which greatly improved the volume, and
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our editors at Palgrave Judith Allan and Beth Farrow for their
patience and support.
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Ste en Schneider, Henning Schmidtke,
Sebastian Haunss and Jennifer Gronau
Bremen, August 2016
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Contents
1 A Legitimation Crisis of the Capitalist Market Economy? 1
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Ste en Schneider and Henning Schmidtke
2 Justifying and Criticizing the Capitalist Market Economy:
A Typology of Legitimation Criteria 37
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Frank Nullmeier and Dominika Biego
3 Legitimation Discourse before and after the Financial
Crisis: Contours and Trajectories 61
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Henning Schmidtke and Ste en Schneider
4 Making Sense of the Great Recession: Responsibility
Attributions in Tough Times 95
Falk Lenke and Henning Schmidtke
5 Metaphorical Anticapitalism: Regulation, Not
Transformation 123
Jennifer Gronau
6 Narrative Legitimation: The Capitalist Market Economy
as a Success Story 159
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Dominika Biego
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