'The Good of the People' - The Politics of Consent and Opposition in the Legitimation of the Bank of England 2008-2021

本研究通过将政治经济学、组织社会学和话语分析引入中央银行合法性研究，有助于理解当代社会的一个重大全球挑战。其最初的贡献将是展示，尽管它们正式独立，但合法性问题-从占领和民粹主义到Gamergate和加密货币-是2008-2021年期间中央银行面临的挑战的关键来源。它采用了混合方法的研究设计，提供了对英格兰银行数据，公共文件和访谈的分析，以提供对中央银行与同意和反对的复杂政治之间的相互作用的独特见解。它集中在英格兰银行如何越来越多地面对并试图应对植根于更广泛的社会和政治不满的合法化问题的研究问题。这项研究将通过数据、文件和访谈分析，查明这些社会和政治挑战的根源。它将探讨世界银行如何制定一个规范性的愿景“英国人民的利益”（卡尼，2014年），以应对高度政治化。

This study contributes to the understanding of a major global challenge in contemporary societies by bringing political economy, sociology of organisation and discourse analysis to the study of central bank legitimacy. Its original contribution will be to show how, despite their formal independence, legitimacy problems - from Occupy and populism to Gamergate and cryptocurrencies - are a key source of the challenges faced by central banks in the period 2008-2021. It adopts a mixed methods research design that offers an analysis of Bank of England data, public documentation and interviews to provide a unique insight into the interaction between central banks and the complex politics of consent and opposition. It is centred on the research question of how the Bank of England has increasingly confronted and attempted to respond to legitimation problems that are rooted in wider social and political discontents. The study will identify the sources of these social and political challenges through data, documentary and interview analysis. It will explore how the Bank formulated a normative vision of the 'good of the people of the United Kingdom' (Carney, 2014) in response to heightened politicisation.