AMERICAN ECONOMIC NATIONALISM: CORPORATIST, NEOLIBERAL AND NEOCORPORATIST POLITICAL STRATEGIC RESPONSES TO CONTEMPORARY GLOBAL SYSTEMIC CRISES

Benedict E. DeDominicis

Review of Business and Finance Studies, 2021, vol. 12, issue 1, 1-30

Abstract: The political theory focus of this paper is the relevance of corporatism to meet the nationalist backlash against the increasing global interdependence that elites encouraged through neoliberal strategies. The paper analyzes the Trump administration’s resistance to international cooperation to counteract the negative externalities creating vulnerability to global crises. It thereby explicates the political assumptions and prescriptions underlying national strategic models of development. Great power competition for power and influence intensifies in an international political system in which the sources of power and influence increasingly depend upon sustainable development. It explores how reactionary populism emerges from perceived threat to core cultural group traditional supremacy within the national polity. This group heretofore set the institutionalized, stereotyped norm standards of individual and constituency behavior and relations. It highlights the foundational path dependency of the American state being reflected in contemporary American white populist status grievances. They utilize the language of conservative evangelical Christian identity to mobilize their social movement political resources. American foundational colonial ideologies in early modern capitalist plantation-based slavery and legacies of de facto casteism are a symbol set. Postwar emerging transnational normative authority centers reflected in international law progressively challenge the utilitarian relevance of these traditional, stereotyped norms and ethics.

Keywords: Corporatism; Covid-10; Environmental Policy; Epistemic Community; Globalization; Interdependency; Judiciary; Neoliberalism; National Security; Political Strategy; Social Identity; Social Movements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: E12 E14 E24 E61 E71 F52 F54 H12 H44 H56 J15 J16 J61 J71 J78 K15 K32 K38 L13 L33 L43 L52 M14 N32 N34 N42 N44 N62 O19 O25 O4 P11 P41 P50 Q28 Q38 Q48 Q54 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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