{"title":"Neoliberal Parliamentarism: a comparative analysis of approaches to legislative governance by the Harris and Ford governments in the province of Ontario, 1997 to 2019","authors":"Tom McDOWELL","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1646455","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646455","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The role and function of legislative institutions in the transition to neoliberalism have been largely ignored by scholarly literature. This article offers an analysis of the legislative approaches and strategies employed by two Right-wing governments in the Canadian province of Ontario during a period spanning more than 20 years. When viewed comparatively, both governments utilize similar approaches to undermine the capacity of the legislature to hold the executive to account in order to shield their neoliberal restructuring plans from democratic interference. This fits a broader pattern in which the reconfiguration of parliamentary institutions to accommodate the implementation of politically contentious neoliberal legislation has become increasingly commonplace.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"132 - 149"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-05-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1646455","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44242839","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Public–private partnerships, social impact bonds, and the erosion of the state in Canada","authors":"J. Loxley, J. Hajer","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1612167","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612167","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Public–private partnerships and social impact bonds are both forms of private sector encroachment on state activity and are new frontiers of commodification that rely, ultimately, on subsidies or concessions from the state. This article provides an update on both models in the Canadian context, and it reviews theories that rationalize their emergence and growth. Both models have been nurtured by direct and indirect government support, as opposed to any demonstrated superiority, raising concerns that these models are proceeding contrary to the public interest.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"18 - 40"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612167","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43401380","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From productive to cognitive dependence: knowledge-based economies and highly qualified migrants in Latin America","authors":"Francesco Maniglio","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1612165","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612165","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Since the 1990s, labour markets in the core countries have been extending recruitment fields into other countries to meet the growing demand for qualified workers, creating a situation of international competition. Rethinking the Marxian dependence approach, this paper posits that the international migration of highly qualified workers would account for the consolidation of a specific geography, which includes dominance by knowledge-based economies. The new social formations that arise from the migration of qualified workers bring to the fore the issue of international division of labour and knowledge. In this context, the agenda of knowledge-based economies shows the new forms of contradiction between dependence and development.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"41 - 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612165","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44174099","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Conceptualizing the future: Marx’s value theory and the debate on markets and planning","authors":"J. Schulman","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Marx posits a vision of socialism in which mass-produced items are priced via computation of embodied labour-time with remuneration such that one hour of actual labour is exchanged for items produced in one hour. But implementing Marx’s scheme today would incentivize increased individual labour time and drive a tendency to ecologically harmful “growth.” As pushing beyond capitalism remains indispensable, we must assess newer models of socialist planning and distribution providing alternatives to capitalism and market socialism.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"100 1","pages":"1 - 17"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2019.1612168","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49149655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The contested scales of indigenous and settler jurisdiction: Unist’ot’en struggles with Canadian pipeline governance","authors":"Tyler McCreary, J. Turner","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1536367","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536367","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper argues that theorizing pipeline governance in Canada necessitates engaging with Indigenous modes of effecting jurisdiction over development. Focusing on the Unist’ot’en land defence against the TransCanada Coastal GasLink pipeline, the paper argues that Indigenous resistance disrupts the scales of settler pipeline governance in British Columbia, Canada. Contesting the authority of the state, Indigenous territorial assertions constitute countervailing forms of jurisdiction grounded in and operationalized through distinct scales of resource governance.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"223 - 245"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536367","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46767910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The financialization of Quebec student debt and the theory of monetary circuit: a case for a reinterpretation?","authors":"Charles Guay-Boutet","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1536363","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536363","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This paper examines the increase in student bank indebtedness in Quebec over the last three decades. The increase in this form of indebtedness is compared with the more general rise of household and consumer indebtedness under financialized capitalism. The banks’ origin of student debt through Quebec’s state-subsidized loans programs, L’Aide financière aux études (AFE), is identified through an institutional history of this program. I then refer to post-Keynesian and circuitist literature to identify the broader monetary circuit with which student debt is embedded. The paper presents original data on outstanding student loans, interest payments, and the public and private actors managing student indebtedness. It concludes with an overview of Quebec student indebtedness related to private credit products.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"285 - 306"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536363","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46196157","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Imperialism or global capitalism? Some reflections from Canada","authors":"J. Garrod","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1536359","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536359","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract In the context of a revived debate over Canada’s location in the global political economy, this paper highlights two recent changes to the property relations of capitalism that problematize the conceptual framework of theories of imperialism and dependency: first, new rights for financial institutions that challenge attempts to surmise meaning from the nationality of capital, and, second, new rights for corporations that restrict nation-states from limiting their accumulation activities.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"268 - 284"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536359","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42334970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Neoliberal governance and resource peripheries: The case of Ontario’s mid-north during the “common sense revolution”","authors":"G. Norcliffe, J. Bates","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1536372","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536372","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Referring specifically to mid-North Ontario during the Conservative Government’s “Common Sense Revolution” (1995–2003), we theorize that state reregulation applying neoliberal principles—when coupled with technological change and broader changes caused by the internationalization of capital and labour—resulted in job losses, downsizing, closures, and aging of fixed capital and infrastructure. This led to outmigration, depopulation, reduced social and economic services, and longer travel times to access services in thinly populated regions, which now have to contend with a seasonal influx of wealthy metropolitan citizens.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"331 - 354"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536372","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42143205","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Urban development by dispossession: planetary urbanization and primitive accumulation","authors":"Danish Khan, Anirban Karak","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1536366","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536366","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Structural changes in capitalism over the last four decades have facilitated the emergence of globalized sociospatial processes such as urbanization. Meanwhile, the scale of uneven sociospatial development has also been dramatically accentuated. We explore these issues by conceptualizing contemporary urbanization as a “planetary” process, but we also add mediating concepts to study changes on the ground. We illustrate how linkages between dispossession and urbanization can be discerned in countries of both the global North and South. We also show that the oft-made claims to overall efficiency gains from urbanization are a myth. Capitalist urbanization has two dialectically interrelated dimensions: “development” and “dispossession,” and this process cannot be adequately grasped to be an outcome of rural–urban migration leading to efficiency gains.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"307 - 330"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536366","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48124777","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Moving beyond the petrostate: northern gateway, extractivism, and the Canadian petrobloc","authors":"Robert Joseph Neubauer","doi":"10.1080/07078552.2018.1536369","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536369","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract This article explores the conflict related to the proposed Northern Gateway project between 2010 and 2015, examining claims that an overdependence on oil and gas had rendered Canada a “petrostate.” It argues the “petrostate thesis” is misleading for a multiparty democracy, such as Canada, and offers an alternative Gramscian framework: the Canadian Petrobloc. It then uses social network and discourse analysis to explore how key Petrobloc actors coordinated an emergent response to the anti-Gateway opposition across multiple fields.","PeriodicalId":39831,"journal":{"name":"Studies in Political Economy","volume":"99 1","pages":"246 - 267"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/07078552.2018.1536369","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"59990664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}