Structural power and political science in the post-crisis era
Structural power and political science in the post-crisis era
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后危机时代的结构性权力与政治学
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发表时间：
2015
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1.8
通讯作者：
Pepper D. Culpepper
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作者：
Pepper D. Culpepper
本文重点介绍了学者们重新激活结构性权力概念以解释国际政治和比较政治中的困惑的富有成效的方法。过去的比较学术强调国家对资本持有者的依赖，但它很难将这种所谓的依赖与政治斗争中频繁的商业损失相协调。国际关系学者关注大国的权力，但主流国际关系忽视了全球资本主义结构使大公司以其自身的权利成为国际政治参与者的方式。为了促进国际和比较政治经济学之间的统一对话，结构性权力最好被概念化为企业和国家之间的一系列相互依赖关系。新一代的结构性权力研究更加关注资本主义结构如何为一些公司（而不是其他公司）创造相对维斯国家的机会，以及这种结构如何为一些国家（而不是其他国家）创造杠杆，使公司相互竞争。未来的研究可能会把代理人--国家和大公司--作为政治行为者放在前台，而不是展示资本主义结构如何以同样的方式使所有商业行为者受益于非商业行为者。
This essay highlights productive ways in which scholars have reanimated the concept of structural power to explain puzzles in international and comparative politics. Past comparative scholarship stressed the dependence of the state on holders of capital, but it struggled to reconcile this supposed dependence with the frequent losses of business in political battles. International relation (IR) scholars were attentive to the power of large states, but mainstream IR neglected the ways in which the structure of global capitalism makes large companies international political players in their own right. To promote a unified conversation between international and comparative political economy, structural power is best conceptualized as a set of mutual dependencies between business and the state. A new generation of structural power research is more attentive to how the structure of capitalism creates opportunities for some companies (but not others) vis-à-vis the state, and the ways in which that structure creates leverage for some states (but not others) to play off companies against each other. Future research is likely to put agents – both states and large firms – in the foreground as political actors, rather than showing how the structure of capitalism advantages all business actors in the same way against non-business actors.