The discourse of globalisation and the logic of no alternative : rendering the contingent necessary in the political economy of New Labour
The discourse of globalisation and the logic of no alternative : rendering the contingent necessary in the political economy of New Labour
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全球化的话语和别无选择的逻辑：使新工党政治经济学中的偶然性变得必要
DOI：
10.1332/030557303322034956
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发表时间：
2003
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
C. Hay
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作者：
Matthew Watson;C. Hay
虽然令人信服的学术信誉，一个单一的世界市场的原油“商学院”的全球化论文，其伴随的政治“没有选择的逻辑”，继续主导全球化的话语通过英国工党。在这里，我们确定了三个独立的，但加强，与全球经济变化相关的政策“必要性”的阐述。工党的领导人被证明利用了灵活的合成潜在的矛盾的想法，在构建他们选择的全球化话语，以指导英国的经济政策的行为后，党的选举胜利在1997年。我们的结论是，工党呼吁全球化的形象作为一个不可谈判的外部经济约束，以使应急政策选择“必要的”在选举振兴的利益。
Although convincingly discredited academically, a crude 'business school' globalisation thesis of a single world market, with its attendant political 'logic of no alternative', continues to dominate the discourse of globalisation adopted by the British Labour Party. Here, we identify three separate, albeit reinforcing, articulations of the policy 'necessities' associated with global economic change. Labour's leaders are shown to have utilised a flexible synthesis of potentially contradictory ideas in constructing their chosen discourse of globalisation to guide the conduct of British economic policy following the Party's election victory in 1997. We conclude that Labour appealed to the image of globalisation as a non-negotiable external economic constraint in order to render contingent policy choices 'necessary' in the interests of electoral rejuvenation.