Free trade, protectionism, neoliberalism: tensions and continuities

Trade Protectionism

Trade Protectionism If we had a situation where these [steel workers] were our constituents and someone was breaking in their house and raping and robbing and pillaging them, we would want to send in a policeman to do something. In this instance, they [importers of foreign steel] are just coming in and taking their future, they are taking their jobs, they are taking all of their dreams away. … ...

Is There No Business Like Show Business? Free Trade and Cultural Protectionism

Sociology in Global Environmental Governance? Neoliberalism, Protectionism and the Methyl Bromide Controversy in the Montreal Protocol

Sociological studies of global agriculture need to pay close attention to the protectionist aspects of neoliberalism at the global scale of environmental governance. With agri-food studies in the social sciences broadening interrogations of the impact of neoliberalism on agri-food systems and their alternatives, investigating global environmental governance (GEG) will help reveal its impacts on...

The Death of Irish Trade Protectionism: A Political Economy Analysis

The decision to abandon protectionism and move to a more open economy is considered one of the most important developments in modern Irish economic history. Drawing on recent work in the field of international political economy, we propose a new explanation for this important policy change based on interest groups’ demands. More specifically, we argue that Irish agriculture’s needs were highly ...

Democracy Models and Civic Technologies: Tensions, Trilemmas, and Trade-offs

This paper aims at connecting democratic theory with civic technologies in order to highlight the links between some theoretical tensions and trilemmas and design trade-offs. First, it reviews some tensions and ‘trilemmas’ raised by political philosophers and democratic theorists. Second, it considers both the role and the limitations of civic technologies in mitigating these tensions and trile...