Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis
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Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis

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Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis

About this book

This volume examines why the 2008 financial crisis with the subsequent Great Recession did not foster a major institutional transformation of the capitalist market economy. It highlights the role of ideas and public discourse in explaining institutional stability and change in the wake of economic crises and other critical junctures. Examining legitimation discourse in four OECD countries (Germany, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States) between 1998 and 2011, the contributions to the volume use different text-analytical methods to bring out the ideas that underpin affirmative and critical media discourse on the capitalist regime. Individual chapters focus on the contours and trajectories of legitimation discourse before and after the financial crisis, on the attribution of responsibility for the crisis, on the use of metaphors and narratives, and on the formation of discourse coalitions challenging the regime. Together, they show that the post-2008 legitimation crisis of the capitalist market economy did not result in its sustained delegitimation or in powerful new ideas that might have mobilized support for radical institutional change. The book will appeal to students and scholars of economic sociology, media studies and political science.

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Yes, you can access Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis by Steffen Schneider, Henning Schmidtke, Sebastian Haunss, Jennifer Gronau, Steffen Schneider,Henning Schmidtke,Sebastian Haunss,Jennifer Gronau in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Scienze sociali & Sociologia. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
Print ISBN
9783319537641
eBook ISBN
9783319537658
Topic
Scienze sociali
Subtopic
Sociologia

Table of contents

  1. Capitalism and Its Legitimacy in Times of Crisis
  2. 1 A Legitimation Crisis of the Capitalist Market Economy?
  3. 2 Justifying and Criticizing the Capitalist Market Economy: A Typology of Legitimation Criteria
  4. 3 Legitimation Discourse before and after the Financial Crisis: Contours and Trajectories
  5. 4 Making Sense of the Great Recession: Responsibility Attributions in Tough Times
  6. 5 Metaphorical Anticapitalism: Regulation, Not Transformation
  7. 6 Narrative Legitimation: The Capitalist Market Economy as a Success Story
  8. 7 (De-)Legitimating Discourse Networks: Smoke without Fire?
  9. 8 Capitalism’s Resilience after the Financial Crisis: A Discursive Explanation
  10. Index