Political and Discursive Characteristics of the Austerity Consensus in the UK and in France since 1975

Autor:	Clémence Fourton
Rok vydání:	2017
Předmět:	Politics Austerity Hegemony media_common.quotation_subject Political science Political economy Rhetoric General Medicine Crisis management Recession Topos theory media_common
Zdroj:	Observatoire de la société britannique. :91-109
ISSN:	1775-4135 1957-3383
DOI:	10.4000/osb.1913
Popis:	Since the mid-seventies, austerity has become a hegemonic tool of economic crisis management. French and British governments, of diverging political tradition, have thus implemented parallel austerity programmes to cope with periodic global recessions. This austerity consensus operates on two levels: economic policies are implemented nationally, but the consensus transcends national borders. The austerity rhetoric that has come about to legitimise the consensus also operates on these two levels. Austerity rhetoric is grounded in national contexts, and builds on historical and political references specific to either France or Britain. But it also displays transnational features, in the form of references and topoi which are shared by both countries and appear in both languages and contexts. The duality of the rhetoric has contributed to establishing and maintaining the hegemony of austerity, by presenting it as inevitable and universal.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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