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- Kallifatides, Markus, et al.
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The Spatial Mediation of the Structural Crisis of the Finance-Dominated Accumulation Regime in Sweden: A Regulation Perspective
- 2019
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- This paper employs Regulation Theory (e.g. Aglietta, 1979; Durand, 2017; Boyer, 2018) and Jessop’s strategic-relational approach (Jessop, 2007) to take initial steps towards making sense of the decomposition of the spatially mediated socio-political alliances formed in support of the globally oriented finance-dominated accumulation regime. The finance-dominated accumulation regime in its various national guises is, since the 2007-9 global financial crisis (GFC), facing its own structural crisis. However, the expression of this crisis takes particular forms on the basis of the regime’s historically specific articulation and institutional configuration in each national setting (Boyer, 2018). One significant dimension, which has only passingly been considered in the literature on the structural crisis of the finance-dominated accumulation regime, is the spatial articulation of this regime. This includes the unevenness of liquidity, deindustrialisation-tertiarisation and urbanisation, but also how this translates into its supportive socio-political alliances. As the accumulation regime entered into structural crisis with the GFC, however, this alliance has been tested as the institutional configuration enabling global competition and stabilising financialisation are being modified with the introduction of austerity and a number of macro-prudential measures. Moreover, “populist” politics, especially on the right, have been articulated by social forces desiring to mobilise the constituencies disadvantaged by the accumulation regime (Worth, 2013). These imaginaries have successfully influenced the usage of state power to implement a range of nationalist measures (Pastor and Veronesi, 2018). They have also attracted electoral supporters from the accumulation regime’s supportive socio-political alliances (cf. Inglehart and Norris, 2016). This paper explores this spatial dimension in the unfolding structural crisis in the arguably most successful of the variations of the financialized accumulation regime, Sweden (Belfrage and Kallifatides, 2018a). Here, a new Swedish model backed by the urban (notionally) home-owning middle classes has emerged. Compared with its more famous predecessor, it now revolves decreasingly around the export sector and increasingly around debt-led consumption and property investment. Ever-increasing levels of private sector, especially household, debt, a major driver of highly leveraged banking revenue, is at the core of this regime. So is rapidly rising real income and wealth inequality. These trends are in significant part due to convergence between global, European and national credit cycles. As a small and open economy, relatively vulnerable to market fluctuations and the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve and the ECB, any Swedish endeavour to deviate from low global interest rates with more restrictive monetary policy would create further financial instability (Belfrage and Kallifatides, 2018b). New policies, for instance those devised to attempt to construct countercyclical macroprudential policy, has led to institutional paralysis. Further administrative crisis, this time in the party-political system, resulted from an intensifying legitimation crisis around the accumulation regime expressed through the growing support for nationalist-populist Sverigedemokraterna with four months of negotiation required to create a grand coalition likely to be shaky during the coming period of government. This paper explores government documents, demographic data and survey data to establish the spatially mediated patterns in these electoral developments underpinning the structural crisis of the new Swedish model.
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- Lakomaa, Erik, et al.
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Societal Cyberwar Theory Applied: The Disruptive Power of State Actor Aggression for Public Sector Information Security
- 2013
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Conference paper (other academic/artistic)abstract
- The modern welfare state faces significant challenges to be able to sustain a systematic cyber conflict that pursues the institutional destabilization of the targeted state. Cyber defense in these advanced democracies are limited, unstructured, and focused on anecdotal cyber interchanges of marginal geopolitical value. The factual reach of government activities once a conflict is initiated is likely to be miniscule. Therefore the information security activities, and assessments leading to cyber defense efforts, have to be strategically pre-event coordinated within the state. This coordination should be following a framework that ensures institutional stability, public trust, and limit challenges to the state. The paper presents a case to use societal cyber war theory to create a public sector cyber defense strategy beforehand facing a massive state actor initiated automated systematic cyber attacks to limit the risk for a societal system shock. Societal cyber war theory utilizes a theoretical framework created by political scientist Dwight Waldo for government stability, turns it upside down, and uses the theory to identify cyber targets and aim points. As a theory it can be used in cyber defense and offense as the institutional weaknesses can be either attacked or defended. According to societal cyber war theory the aim points to be targeted by an automated premeditated systematic attack that will cripple the targeted nation is the five pillars that upholds the state - legitimacy, authority, knowledge, control, and confidence. The failure to protect the institutional stability could undermine the state's ability to avoid submission to foreign power.
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- Morsing, Mette, et al.
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The Legitimacy of Data Partnerships for Sustainable Development
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Conference paper (peer-reviewed)abstract
- This paper examines the legitimacy attached to different types of multi-stakeholder data partnerships occurring in the context of sustainable development. We develop a framework to assess the democratic legitimacy of two types of data partnerships: open data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly freely available) and closed data partnerships (where data and insights are mainly shared within a network of organizations). Our framework specifies criteria for assessing the legitimacy of relevant partnerships with regard to their input legitimacy as well as their output legitimacy. We demonstrate which particular characteristics of open and closed partnerships can be expected to influence an analysis of their input and output legitimacy.
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