Mediation of Environmental Conflicts in Hawaii: Win-Win or Co-optation?

1996 ◽  
Vol 39 (2) ◽  
pp. 301-316 ◽  
Author(s):  
Neghin Modavi
Keyword(s):  
Land Use ◽  
Political Economy ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
The State ◽  
Environmental Conflicts ◽  
Structural Class ◽  
Environmental Mediation ◽  
Legitimation Crisis ◽  
Political Legitimation ◽  
Political Economy Approach

This analysis examines the rise and political promotion of mediation in the settlement of land-use-related environmental conflicts in the state of Hawaii and counters much of the enthusiastic praise of mediation. The study adopts a political economy approach informed by the structural class-centric state perspective in order to illustrate the economic roots of political facilitation of environmental mediation. It is argued that environmental mediation has emerged as a political tool to demobilize and depoliticize conflicts on behalf of the state and industry interests. Environmental mediation is studied as an important mechanism for the state to cope with its dual and contradictory role—a role that involves both the minimization of political legitimation crisis and the promotion of capital accumulation and expansion.

Universal health coverage and capital accumulation: a relationship unveiled by the critical political economy approach

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (7) ◽  
pp. 995-1001
Author(s):  
Mario Hernández-Álvarez ◽  
Juan Carlos Eslava-Castañeda ◽  
Liliana Henao-Kaffure ◽  
José Orozco-Díaz ◽  
Luis Edgar Parra-Salas
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Universal Health Coverage ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Health Coverage ◽  
Universal Health ◽  
Political Economy Approach

scholarly journals Contradictions of international migration in terms of political economy

Stanovnistvo ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 54 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-82
Author(s):  
Kosta Josifidis ◽  
Alpar Losonc ◽  
Novica Supic
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
The State ◽  
Forced Labor ◽  
The Political ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The World ◽  
Authoritarian Statism ◽  
Proposed Regulation ◽  
National Trends ◽  
Political Economy Approach

The political economy approach that entails critical arguments in relation to the processes of migration in neoliberal terms is developed in the paper. Starting with the account that migration covers as broad issues as politics, economics and population dynamic, the authors address the issue of migration in the political economy circuits of neoliberalization. In fact, the main line of argument is connected to the political economy as the relevant discursive frame and explanatory principle for the articulation of the complexity of migration. Critical arguments relating to the processes of migration in the neoliberal context thematize the mechanism of implemented flexibilisation and deregulation of labor. Demographic dynamics is essential in this context, but the authors intend to identify those political economy processes that lead to high precariousness, to various forms of temporary labor which are closely associated with forced labor forms. The category of forced labor is emphasized in the contemporary forms of migration, because this mode of labor facilitates the migration throughout the world. Furthermore, the authors point out the contradictory position of the state in relation to the migration-processes and analyse the authoritarian statism. This argumentation leads to articulation of the contradictory position of neoliberalization. The neoliberal discourses bring out the critical stance concerning the supremacy of the state, but it plays a key role in the regulation of migration. The state exposed to migration is faced with the contradictory demands. The globalization indicates the world without borders but is faced with the same contradictions. It is no coincidence that the intention of the reconceptualizations of globalization are interested in promoting global public goods. The processes of privatization in the sphere of the regulation of migration sharpen the contradictions of migration in the context of neoliberalization. The political economy approach is faced with the tension between the two approaches. The first proposed regulation and workforce management at the supranational level. The other remains in the framework of ?methodological nationalism?: the appropriate starting point is the national state. Given the fact that structural inequalities should be recognized at a global level, and that processes of migration show that there is a certain hierarchical global flow in the context of the dynamics of workforce, the first approach proves to be inadequate. In other words, the second approach could not articulate the relevant tendencies. Accordingly, the political economy approach that intends to include complex determination regarding the migration should integrate the national trends in the supranational framework. But, proper research should take into account that globalization and its complex order consist of a number of interventions and interferences. This means that the aforementioned approach must develop sufficiently complex methodology in order to articulate its selected subject.

Regulation, Retailing, and Consumption

1995 ◽  
Vol 27 (12) ◽  
pp. 1899-1912 ◽  
Author(s):  
T Marsden ◽  
N Wrigley
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Capital Accumulation ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Active Agent ◽  
The State ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
General Terms ◽  
Food Retailers

In this paper the interplay between regulation and consumption is explored. Questions are posed about the regulation of consumption by the state and by private retail capital, and the way in which consumption relations influence the operation of the state either directly or through the mediative role of the retailers. We argue in general terms that, since the 1980s, it is the consumption nexus rather than that of capital and labour which has increasingly provided the most attractive location for the abstraction of surplus value and for capital accumulation; that the state had increasingly become an active agent in class formation and class relations through the sphere of consumption; that consumption processes have increased in significance in the legitimation of the state; and that, particularly in the United Kingdom, the major food retailers have played a critical role, not only in delivering new and revised ‘rights to consume’ to empowered groupings of service-class consumers, but in defining consumption interests around their own particular notions. As a result, we argue that regulation by necessity has become far more embedded than hitherto in the consumption process, and that a consideration of the regulation of retail capital offers particularly valuable insights into the regulatory influences shaping the extraction of profits from the ‘situation of exchange’. Above all, our aim is to inject a ‘political economy of consumption’ perspective into the increasing and diverse debates concerning cultural aspects of consumption. We argue, in conclusion, that it is necessary to explore how the political economy and cultural aspects of consumption interact, and how social and political practices embody both. To this end, we conclude our paper by posing questions about the next steps in what we believe is a vitally important emerging dialogue and integration between these two perspectives.

scholarly journals CAN OPENNESS HYPOTHESIS IMPROVE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF PAKISTANS FINANCIAL MARKET?

2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 56-65
Author(s):  
Jawad Ahmad ◽  
Sania Zehraa ◽  
Noor Jehan
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Interest Groups ◽  
Developing Country ◽  
Financial Development ◽  
Financial Market ◽  
The State ◽  
Market Development ◽  
Necessary Condition ◽  
Financial Market Development ◽  
Political Economy Approach

This paper is an attempt to test the openness hypothesis for the case of Pakistan. Being a developing country and having different interest groups interfering in the financial market, openness hypothesis provides a theory that provides a win-win situation for the interest groups, consequently improving financial development. We presented a political economy approach of analyzing the state of Pakistans financial market and proposed an openness hypothesis. Our result indicates that individually, trade and financial opening are beneficial for improving the financial market development however, the simultaneous opening of financial and trade hypothesis does not hold for Pakistan. In other words, the simultaneous opening of financial and trade accounts does not seem to be a necessary condition for improving the financial sector.

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