NATIONALIZATION

Privatization and Nationalization Cycles

This paper studies the cycles of nationalization and privatization in resource-rich economies as a prime instance of unstable institutional reform. We discuss available evidence on the drivers and consequences of privatization and nationalization, reviewing the existing literature and presenting illustrative case studies. This leads to the main contribution of the paper: a static and dynamic mo...

The De-nationalization and Re-nationalization of the Life Sciences in China: A Cosmopolitan Practicality?

Stem cell research and synthetic biology offer complementary insights on the nature of scientific governance in China. Stem cells were essentially promoted by top-down semi-governmental initiatives. Yet it was through a process of 'de-nationalization' (in which a diversity of cross-border communications initiated by scientists effaced the dominance of a singular national voice) that China's ste...

How party nationalization conditions economic voting

In this article we analyze the conditioning effect of party nationalization, and in particular dynamic nationalization, on economic voting. While previous single-country and cross-national studies suggest a weak correlation between economic conditions and voting patterns, we argue that this relationship is conditioned by the degree to which parties are dynamically nationalized. Using both case ...

“Purús Song”: Nationalization and Tribalization in Southwestern Amazonia

Top-down Patriotism and Bottom-up Nationalization in Hong Kong

This paper maps the discursive struggles between different versions of nationalization in post 1997 Hong Kong. Once a de-nationalized colony, Hong Kong has been caught up in the cross road where previous de-sinicized discourses of localism, internationalism and cosmopolitism are re-negotiating with the new discourses of nationalism and patriotism. Visible top-down call for patriotism has been m...