Civil Society And Financial Regulation

Author : Lisa Kastner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2017-10-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351798136

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Civil Society and Financial Regulation by Lisa Kastner Pdf

Coalitions of consumer groups, NGOs, and trade unions have traditionally been considered politically weak compared to well-organized and resourceful financial sector groups which dominate or "capture" financial regulatory decisions. However, following the 2008 financial crisis, civil society groups have been seen to exert much more influence, with politicians successfully implementing financial reform in spite of industry opposition. Drawing on literature from social movement research and regulatory politics, this book shows how diffuse interests were represented in financial regulatory overhauls in both the United States (US) and the European Union (EU). Four cases of reform in the post-crisis regulatory context are analyzed: the creation of a new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau in the US; the introduction of new consumer protection regulations through EU directives; the failure of attempts to introduce a financial transaction tax in the US; and the agreement of 11 EU member states to introduce such a tax. It shows how building coalitions with important elite allies outside and inside government helped traditionally weak interest groups transcend a lack of material resources to influence and shape regulatory policy. By engaging with a less well-known side of the debate, it explains how business power was curbed and diverse interests translated into financial regulatory policy.

Author : Charles McDaniel, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317503477

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Civil Society and the Reform of Finance by Charles McDaniel, Jr. Pdf

Efforts to resolve the recent financial crisis have obscured a more deeply rooted financialization crisis that impacts not only the market economy but also the vital civic and moral traditions that support it. This book reveals the cultural influence of finance in reshaping the foundations of American civil society and proposes a return to certain "first principles" of the Republic to restore the nation’s economic vision. This book demonstrates how funding concerns and financial incentives "revalue" faith traditions, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and even the nation’s healthcare system in ways that are eroding the diversity of American culture. These changes also undermine the ethical framework of both democratic government and the free-market system. While financial influence has diminished the value of civil society, this book proposes that revitalized intermediary institutions still offer the best path forward in restoring the financial sector and, more broadly, enriching the American competitive ethic toward development of a more virtuous economy. The book is written for an academic and professional audience, offering a blueprint for the involvement of civil society with government in providing more communally integrated oversight that could contribute to a genuine democratization of finance.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Jan Aart Scholte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003-09-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134467075

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Civil Society and Global Finance by Albrecht Schnabel,Jan Aart Scholte Pdf

This key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today's globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.

Author : Albrecht Schnabel,Jan Aart Scholte
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2004-01-14
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780203219713

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Civil Society and Global Finance by Albrecht Schnabel,Jan Aart Scholte Pdf

This key text brings together twenty activists, officials and researchers from the five continents to discuss this burning question of today's globalization debate. Providing rare, authoritative analyses by those who deal with the issues first hand, Civil Society and Global Finance is rich in insight and policy ideas for decision-makers, students and concerned citizens.

Author : Lorenzo Fioramonti
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351571777

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Citizens vs. Markets by Lorenzo Fioramonti Pdf

After an apparent temporary relief, the financial crisis is back full steam. The ?double dip? has turned into a full-blown meltdown of financial markets, public budgets and, by and large, democratic accountability. This global crisis is a fundamental wake-up call: a signal that our conventional political economy and, perhaps, the very foundations of our societies need a serious rethink. Currently, the spotlight is on the role of political elites and economic agents (especially the investors included in the vague notion of ?markets?) and their strategies to stabilize or destabilize countries, from North America to the Eurozone. Regrettably, the actual and potential role of civil society is hardly mentioned in public debate. Yet, it is exactly within civil society that important responses to the crisis may emerge. It is within civil society that an alternative paradigm and a fundamental rethinking of conventional wisdom may be fostered. Citizens vs. Markets is the first book to unpack the transformative role of civil society in a sector in which it has traditionally been less proactive, in order to reflect on possible forms of social transformation that are not merely remedial but also constructive in nature. This is the most important struggle of our times.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Civil Society.

Author : Pablo Iglesias-Rodriguez,Anna Triandafyllidou,Ruby Gropas
Publisher : Springer
Page : 353 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2016-10-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781137509567

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After the Financial Crisis by Pablo Iglesias-Rodriguez,Anna Triandafyllidou,Ruby Gropas Pdf

This international collection studies how the financial crisis of 2007 and the ensuing economic and political crises in Europe and North America have triggered a process of change in the field of economics, law and politics. Contributors to this book argue that both elites and citizens have had to rethink the nature of the market, the role of the state as a market regulator and as a provider of welfare, the role of political parties in representing society’s main political and social cleavages, the role of civil society in voicing the concerns of citizens, and the role of the citizen as the ultimate source of power in a democracy but also as a fundamentally powerless subject in a global economy. The book studies the actors, the areas and the processes that have carried forward the change and proposes the notion of ‘incomplete paradigm shift’ to analyse this change. Its authors explore the multiple dimensions of paradigm shifts and their differentiated evolution, arguing that today we witness an incomplete paradigm shift of financial regulations, economic models and welfare systems, but a stillbirth of a new political and economic paradigm.

Author : Gordon White,Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105018362488

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In Search of Civil Society by Gordon White,Jude Howell,Xiaoyuan Shang Pdf

1. The search for civil society

Author : Elizabeth Friesen
Publisher : Springer
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-01-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230368309

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Challenging Global Finance by Elizabeth Friesen Pdf

Friesen demonstrates how transnational CSOs and NGOs can influence the context in which international political decisions are made. She shows how, by reframing the issues, the transnational campaign for the cancellation of third world debt altered the dominant discourse, shifted the agenda and thereby shaped political outcomes.

Author : Bridget M. Hutter,Joan O'Mahony
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 0753017997

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The Role of Civil Society Organisations in Regulating Business by Bridget M. Hutter,Joan O'Mahony Pdf

Author : MCDANIEL, JR.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2020-06-30
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 036759885X

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Civil Society and the Reform of Finance by MCDANIEL, JR. Pdf

Efforts to resolve the recent financial crisis have obscured a more deeply rooted financialization crisis that impacts not only the market economy but also the vital civic and moral traditions that support it. This book reveals the cultural influence of finance in reshaping the foundations of American civil society and proposes a return to certain first principles of the Republic to restore the nation's economic vision. This book demonstrates how funding concerns and financial incentives revalue faith traditions, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and even the nation's healthcare system in ways that are eroding the diversity of American culture. These changes also undermine the ethical framework of both democratic government and the free-market system. While financial influence has diminished the value of civil society, this book proposes that revitalized intermediary institutions still offer the best path forward in restoring the financial sector and, more broadly, enriching the American competitive ethic toward development of a more virtuous economy. The book is written for an academic and professional audience, offering a blueprint for the involvement of civil society with government in providing more communally integrated oversight that could contribute to a genuine democratization of finance.

Author : Charles McDaniel, Jr.
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317503484

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Civil Society and the Reform of Finance by Charles McDaniel, Jr. Pdf

Efforts to resolve the recent financial crisis have obscured a more deeply rooted financialization crisis that impacts not only the market economy but also the vital civic and moral traditions that support it. This book reveals the cultural influence of finance in reshaping the foundations of American civil society and proposes a return to certain "first principles" of the Republic to restore the nation’s economic vision. This book demonstrates how funding concerns and financial incentives "revalue" faith traditions, educational institutions, non-profit organizations, and even the nation’s healthcare system in ways that are eroding the diversity of American culture. These changes also undermine the ethical framework of both democratic government and the free-market system. While financial influence has diminished the value of civil society, this book proposes that revitalized intermediary institutions still offer the best path forward in restoring the financial sector and, more broadly, enriching the American competitive ethic toward development of a more virtuous economy. The book is written for an academic and professional audience, offering a blueprint for the involvement of civil society with government in providing more communally integrated oversight that could contribute to a genuine democratization of finance.

Author : Olha O. Cherednychenko,Mads Andenas
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781789908114

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Financial Regulation and Civil Liability in European Law by Olha O. Cherednychenko,Mads Andenas Pdf

This insightful book provides a comprehensive analysis of the interplay between EU financial regulation and civil liability. It explores this interrelationship in order to determine whether a coordinated approach has been adopted.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Civil society
ISBN : 1137028394

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Transnational Civil Society and the World Bank by Anonim Pdf

Academics and practitioners alike recognize that global governance institutions suffer from a democratic deficit. Many have looked to transnational civil society as a means of remediation. Yet a clear gap has begun to emerge between normative hopes and empirical reality. Using new data from civil society engagements with the World Bank, this book shows how transnational civil society organizations prioritize pre-existing mission over responsiveness to claimed stakeholders, undertake activism in line with financial incentives, achieve impacts using elite channels of influence, and undercut the authority of developing country governments. It explores the structural roots of these patterns and examines their impact on democratic representation. It also offers practical advice for how these negative patterns can be moderated through new practices at the Bank and new norms within civil society"

Author : Zeynep Gulsah Capan,Filipe dos Reis,Maj Grasten
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-01-09
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783030568863

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The Politics of Translation in International Relations by Zeynep Gulsah Capan,Filipe dos Reis,Maj Grasten Pdf

This volume concerns the role and nature of translation in global politics. Through the establishment of trade routes, the encounter with the ‘New World’, and the circulation of concepts and norms across global space, meaning making and social connections have unfolded through practices of translating. While translation is core to international relations it has been relatively neglected in the discipline of International Relations. The Politics of Translation in International Relations remedies this neglect to suggest an understanding of translation that transcends language to encompass a broad range of recurrent social and political practices. The volume provides a wide variety of case studies, including financial regulation, gender training programs, and grassroot movements. Contributors situate the politics of translation in the theoretical and methodological landscape of International Relations, encompassing feminist theory, de- and post-colonial theory, hermeneutics, post-structuralism, critical constructivism, semiotics, conceptual history, actor-network theory and translation studies. The Politics of Translation in International Relations furthers and intensifies a cross-disciplinary dialogue on how translation makes international relations.

Author : Scott L. Greer,Matthias Wismar,Gabriele Pastorino
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 191 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-11-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9789289050432

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Civil Society and Health by Scott L. Greer,Matthias Wismar,Gabriele Pastorino Pdf

Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) can make a vital contribution to public health and health systems but harnessing their potential is complex in a Europe where government-CSO relations vary so profoundly. This study is intended to outline some of the challenges and assist policy-makers in furthering their understanding of the part CSOs can play in tandem and alongside government. To this end it analyses existing evidence and draws on a set of seven thematic chapters and six mini case studies. They examine experiences from Austria Bosnia-Herzegovina Belgium Cyprus Finland Germany Malta the Netherlands Poland the Russian Federation Slovenia Turkey and the European Union and make use of a single assessment framework to understand the diverse contexts in which CSOs operate. The evidence shows that CSOs are ubiquitous varied and beneficial and the topics covered in this study reflect such diversity of aims and means: anti-tobacco advocacy food banks refugee health HIV/AIDS prevention and cure and social partnership. CSOs make a substantial contribution to public health and health systems with regards to policy development service delivery and governance. This includes evidence provision advocacy mobilization consensus building provision of medical services and of services related to the social determinants of health standard setting self-regulation and fostering social partnership. However in order to engage successfully with CSOs governments do need to make use of adequate tools and create contexts conducive to collaboration. To guide policy-makers working with CSOs through such complications and help avoid some potential pitfalls the book outlines a practical framework for such collaboration. This suggests identifying key CSOs in a given area; clarifying why there should be engagement with civil society; being realistic as to what CSOs can or will achieve; and an understanding of how CSOs can be helped to deliver.