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Conditionality and the Ambitions of Governance Social Transformation in Southeastern Europe
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Shelton investigates the conditionality regime directed at 'transforming societies' inside EU candidate states. He offers a new understanding of conditionality that incorporates the social and subj...
Shelton investigates the conditionality regime directed at 'transforming societies' inside EU candidate states. He offers a new understanding of conditionality that incorporates the social and subjective dimensions of the 'European project', locating the ambitions and limits of conditionality in the ideas of political economy.
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- by Joel T. Shelton
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- Language
- English
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- 1st ed. 2015
- London : Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015
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- 1 online resource (209 p.)
- ISBNs
- 9781349495269, 1349495263, 9781137441607, 1137441607, 1322403163, 1137443162
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- English
- Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; 1 Introduction: Conditionality in Crisis?; 1.1 From crisis to conditionality; 1.2 A brief history of european union conditionality; 1.3 The political economy of conditionality; 1.4 From Smith to Foucault: poststructuralist readings of political economy; 1.5 The ambitions of conditionality; 1.6 Plan of the book; Part I Political Economy and Conditionality; 2 The Limits of International Political Economy; 2.1 Disciplining political economy; 2.2 The calculations of rationalist IPE; 2.3 Conceptualizing conditionality; 2.4 Rethinking political economy
- 2.5 Conclusion3 The Anxieties of Classical Political Economy; 3.1 Toward a political economy of disharmony; 3.2 James Steuart and the ambitions of governance; 3.3 Adam Smith and the fragility of social exchange; 4 Political Economy and the Problem of Conduct; 4.1 Managing disharmonious spaces; 4.2 Karl Marx and the subjective requirements of accumulation; 4.3 Max Weber and the habits of bureaucracy; 4.4 Neoliberal anxieties: continuity and innovation; Part II Conditionality as Technique of Governance; 5 Assembling Conditionality in the Republic of Macedonia
- 5.1 Conditionality in its latest phase5.2 Instruments of conditionality; 5.3 Prioritization; 5.4 Programming; 5.5 Evaluation; 5.6 Conclusion; 6 Ambitions Interrupted: Conditionalizing Human Resources Development; 6.1 From average laborer to adaptive entrepreneur; 6.2 Normalizing entrepreneurial subjects; 6.3 Socializing inclusive individuals; 6.4 Rationalizing organizational behavior; 6.5 Evaluating conditionality: technical constraints; 7 Conditionality and the Future of 'Europe'; 7.1 Conditionality dispersed: agencies and interventions in Southeastern Europe
- 7.2 Political economy and the limits to 'social transformation'7.3 Conditionality and the politics of inevitability; 7.4 Conditionality as universal imperative; Notes; Bibliography; Index