'There's a brand new talk, but it's not very clear' : can the contemporary EU really be characterized as ordoliberal?

Cardwell, Paul James and Snaith, Holly (2018) 'There's a brand new talk, but it's not very clear' : can the contemporary EU really be characterized as ordoliberal? JCMS: Journal of Common Market Studies, 56 (5). pp. 1053-1069. ISSN 1468-5965 (https://doi.org/10.1111/jcms.12706)

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Abstract

Ordoliberalism has undergone a dramatic resurgence as a characterisation of the contemporary EU and its economic dimensions. Commentators have pointed to the ‘ordoliberalisation’ of EU economic policy with Germany at its core, albeit taking the role of a ‘reluctant hegemon’. Perhaps as a result of this pervasive influence, some have claimed that the EU is itself ordoliberal, resting on a particular understanding of the relationship between ordoliberalism and an ‘economic constitution’. For this claim to be substantiated, the characterisation of ordoliberalism needs to persist across time and the EU’s law and policy-making spaces. In this article, we examine this proposition, and argue that the influence of ordoliberalism can help a richer understanding of the contemporary EU beyond the confines of the economic constitution and into its evolving legal system(s).

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Cardwell, Paul James ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7485-3474 and Snaith, Holly;
  • Item type:Article
    ID code:62669
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    31 July 2018
    Published
    11 February 2018
    Published Online
    5 November 2017
    Accepted
    Notes:This article was presented at the 3rd Midterm Conference of the European Political Sociology Research Network of the European Sociology Association (ESA), Copenhagen, Denmark (November 2014) and the Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), University of Sheffield (May 2015).
    Subjects:Law > Europe
    Social Sciences > Economic Theory
    Department:Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (HaSS) > Strathclyde Law School > Law
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:19 Dec 2017 14:56
    Last modified:11 Nov 2024 11:52
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/62669
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