Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Theorizing ideational continuity: The resilience of neo-liberal ideas in Europe
- Part I Economy, state, and society
- Part II Neo-liberalism in major policy domains
- Part III Neo-liberalism in comparative perspective
- 10 The resilience of Anglo-liberalism in the absence of growth: The UK and Irish cases
- 11 Germany and Sweden in the crisis: Re-coordination or resilient liberalism?
- 12 State transformation in Italy and France: Technocratic versus political leadership on the road from non-liberalism to neo-liberalism
- 13 Reassessing the neo-liberal development model in Central and Eastern Europe
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
12 - State transformation in Italy and France: Technocratic versus political leadership on the road from non-liberalism to neo-liberalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2014
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of tables
- List of contributors
- Preface
- 1 Theorizing ideational continuity: The resilience of neo-liberal ideas in Europe
- Part I Economy, state, and society
- Part II Neo-liberalism in major policy domains
- Part III Neo-liberalism in comparative perspective
- 10 The resilience of Anglo-liberalism in the absence of growth: The UK and Irish cases
- 11 Germany and Sweden in the crisis: Re-coordination or resilient liberalism?
- 12 State transformation in Italy and France: Technocratic versus political leadership on the road from non-liberalism to neo-liberalism
- 13 Reassessing the neo-liberal development model in Central and Eastern Europe
- Part IV Conclusion
- Index
- References
Summary
Although Italy and France have seemingly little in common – given differences in economic profile, state capacity, leadership effectiveness, vulnerability to the economic crisis, and more – they both nevertheless can be categorized as part of a third variety of capitalism: state-influenced market economies (SMEs). In such political economies, the state intervenes more, for better or for worse, and differently than in liberal market economies like the United Kingdom and Ireland or in coordinated market economies like Germany and Sweden. However, what distinguishes these SMEs from other varieties of capitalism is not just their institutional configuration. Equally important are the underlying ideational legacies that underpin the institutions, shaping the ways in which actors have defined and remade markets and how they have engaged in ‘acting out change’ against a background of national traditions of economic thought, of state intervention, and of decades of lived economic practice. Postwar SMEs are distinguished from the other postwar varieties of capitalism by their very different stewardship of the economy through ‘non-liberal’ (defined as violating neo-liberal tenets) institutions of planning, industrial policy, and/or public enterprise. These in turn constituted historical legacies that left their traces even as the state liberalized from the 1980s onwards. In Italy, the country's ‘state-assisted’ capitalism, or ‘public neo-capitalism’, continued to ‘muddle through’ after the postwar years, leading at best ‘by indirection’ except at times when and/or in areas where technocratic elites took over. In France, political elites transformed the country's postwar non-liberal ‘state-led’ capitalism, or dirigisme, through the dirigiste retreat from dirigisme that resulted in the ‘post-dirigisme’ of the 1980s onwards.
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