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

这项研究将政治经济学、组织社会学和话语分析引入对央行合法性的研究，有助于理解当代社会的一项重大全球挑战。它的最初贡献将是展示，尽管它们在形式上是独立的，但合法性问题--从占领运动和民粹主义到Gamergate和加密货币--如何成为2008年至2021年期间各国央行面临挑战的关键来源。它采用了混合方法的研究设计，提供了对英国央行数据、公共文件和采访的分析，以提供对央行与同意和反对的复杂政治之间的互动的独特洞察。它的中心是一个研究问题，即英国央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。这项研究将通过数据、纪录片和访谈分析确定这些社会和政治挑战的根源。它将探讨世行如何为应对高度的政治化而制定出一种规范的愿景，即“联合王国人民的利益”(Carney，2014)。

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.