Analyser la politique économique à partir de facteurs sociaux

The article shows the value of an interdisciplinary approach for analyzing decision-making about economic policies. It uses the example of the “austerity turn” taken by France’s socialist government in 1983. Forty years later, this episode remains a key reference point in political debates on the ex...

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Main Authors: Fabien Eloire, Thomas Dallery
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Association Recherche & Régulation 2023-07-01
Series:Revue de la Régulation
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Online Access:https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/22026
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description The article shows the value of an interdisciplinary approach for analyzing decision-making about economic policies. It uses the example of the “austerity turn” taken by France’s socialist government in 1983. Forty years later, this episode remains a key reference point in political debates on the exercise of power by the forces of the left. Through a study of the archives of the Élysée’s advisors and the mobilization of macroeconomic data, the article shows the evolution of the controversy between the supporters of economic stimulus and the advocates of austerity, by specifying the strategies followed by the latter to win over President Mitterrand. The turn to austerity appears neither as just the product of economic circumstances (external constraint) imposing this choice, nor as just the fruit of an (neo-liberal) ideological conversion of the government, nor as just the consequence of the relational work of a front of advisors, but as the joint product of these different causes.
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spelling doaj-art-98ccb124e80b415eac939dfd172006422025-01-30T14:26:47ZengAssociation Recherche & RégulationRevue de la Régulation1957-77962023-07-0134110.4000/regulation.22026Analyser la politique économique à partir de facteurs sociauxFabien EloireThomas DalleryThe article shows the value of an interdisciplinary approach for analyzing decision-making about economic policies. It uses the example of the “austerity turn” taken by France’s socialist government in 1983. Forty years later, this episode remains a key reference point in political debates on the exercise of power by the forces of the left. Through a study of the archives of the Élysée’s advisors and the mobilization of macroeconomic data, the article shows the evolution of the controversy between the supporters of economic stimulus and the advocates of austerity, by specifying the strategies followed by the latter to win over President Mitterrand. The turn to austerity appears neither as just the product of economic circumstances (external constraint) imposing this choice, nor as just the fruit of an (neo-liberal) ideological conversion of the government, nor as just the consequence of the relational work of a front of advisors, but as the joint product of these different causes.https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/22026economic sociologyausterity turneconomic policymakingdevaluation
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Analyser la politique économique à partir de facteurs sociaux
Revue de la Régulation
economic sociology
austerity turn
economic policymaking
devaluation
title Analyser la politique économique à partir de facteurs sociaux
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title_short Analyser la politique économique à partir de facteurs sociaux
title_sort analyser la politique economique a partir de facteurs sociaux
topic economic sociology
austerity turn
economic policymaking
devaluation
url https://journals.openedition.org/regulation/22026
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