[IPO] SASE Chicago Mini-Conference on The Social Dimension of State Capitalism in the BRICs: Contentiousness and New Arenas of Concertation - deadline January 20

[Andreas Nölke]

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Andreas Nölke

We would welcome submission for our mini-conference, 10-12 July 2014,
Chicago. Paper abstracts must be submitted by January 20, 2014.
Candidates will be notified by February 17, 2014. Please don't hesitate
to contact us with any questions you may have.

More information on submissions:
https://sase.org/about-sase/join-sase-_fr_55.html
More information on the mini-conference and the organizers: see below.

One often neglected dimension of the debate about the BRICS is whether
these countries' rising economic power can also trigger political and
social aspects of a welfare state. There is a lot of contentiousness
between strategic actors concerning the role and extension of social
policies and improving working conditions as part of these countries'
economic development. In such a way, it is crucial to discuss the
emerging new arenas of concertation and its implications for the social
dimension of this new type state capitalism.   

The rationale for social dialogue between capital, labour, as well as
government representatives can stem from three broad streams. One stream
is related to the idea of social pacts to implement pro-market reforms
in advanced industrial countries, after the crisis of fordist
accumulation regime. Under the neoliberal tenets, competitiveness is
enhanced mainly through labour costs reduction and labour rights
retrenchment. The other stream for concertation has to do with labour
rights enforcement associated to democratization processes in developing
countries.  The latter is much more akin to ILO initiatives concerning
the enhancement of newly democratic countries. Compliance with ILO
guidelines coupled with labour market regulation has contributed to
national peak level negotiations involving employers and employees
organizations.

However, a third stream for this type of concertation is more prone to
play a strategic role. It is related to the coordination among strategic
actors to enhance economic and, sometimes, social upgrading such as what
has been taking place in BRICS. Some authors mention a new type of state
capitalism in these countries, especially in the cases of China, India,
Russia, but we would also include Brazil and South Africa. South
Africa’s National Economic Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC), and
Brazil’s Conselho de Desenvolvimento Econômico e Social have contributed
to the sustainability of the economic and social reform process over the
past decade. NEDLAC has deepened democracy by creating new labour market
institutions that have included constituencies that were previously
excluded from the policy-making process. CDES played a key role in the
Economic Growth Acceleration Program (PAC) and in the design of recent
industrial policies in Brazil and their social implications. In both
cases, neocorporatist peak level organizations were the most relevant
actors.

Under a comparative capitalism framework and in the vein of the idea of
a new type of organized capitalism, this mini-conference seeks
contributions that examine institutional arrangements and their role in
development strategies through policymaking related to industrial
upgrading as well as social protection in BRICs, East Asia, Africa and
Latin American countries.  What kinds of strategies and policy options
have predominated and with what impact? Which factors can explain
differences across countries? What has been the role of corporatist
arrangements and deliberative democracy in shaping specific policy
options? What role have international organizations played with regard
to the state in promoting social policy reforms such as the ILO? Are
there new distributional coalitions underpinning current policy
arrangements?

Organizers: Cristiano Fonseca Monteiro, Flavio Gaitán, Eduardo Gomes,
and Andreas Nölke

Christiano Fonseca Monteiro is a Professor of Sociology at Fluminense
Federal University, in the state of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He obtained
his Doctor’s degree in Sociology at the Federal University of Rio de
Janeiro, with a dissertation on the state-market relations and the
political dynamics of neoliberal reforms in the air transportation
market in Brazil. He has published several articles and book chapters on
these topics, including the article “Political dynamics and
liberalization in the Brazilian air transport industry: 1990-2002”
(Brazilian Political Science Review, 5/1, 2011). He has been the
coordinator of the working group on Economic Sociology at the meetings
of the Brazilian Society of Sociology since 2009 and he is currently
coordinating a project on Economic Development and Sociopolitical action
in Southern Rio de Janeiro. 

Flavio Gaitan is a Post-doctoral fellow IESP-UERJ (Institute of Social
and Political Studies, State University of Rio de Janeiro), PhD IUPERJ
(Research University Institute of Rio de Janeiro), Researcher of
INCT-PPED (National Institute of Science and Technology “Public
Policies, Strategies and Development”).  His areas of interest include
developmental state, development strategies, social protection,
articulation between production regime and welfare state and role of
strategic elites in dynamics of development. Among his latest
publications are Legacies of excludent development: inequality and
poverty in peripheral South American capitalism (in Arzate Salgado,
Gutierrez & Huamán, Poverty Reproduction in Latin America, CLACSO-CROP,
2011) and Politics and Development: Lessons from Latin America (with
Renato Boschi, in Boschi & Santana,Development and semi-periphery,
Anthem Press, 2012).

Eduardo Gomes is an Associate Professor of Political Science at
Fluminense Federal University, in Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He
hold a Ph. D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, with
a dissertation on a failed project of turning Brazil into an exporter of
manufactured products before the neoliberal reforms. He has been a
Visiting Professor in a couple of colleges in the United States,
including as a Fulbright Scholar in Residence. He was awarded the “Amos
Chair of Eminent Professor of Latin American Studies” at Columbus
University, Georgia. His fields of interests are Interest Politics,
Political Economy, and Comparative Politics. He has conducted research
on business politics, small business, corporate social responsibility,
and comparative political economy of development, having published a
number of articles and book chapters on these topics in Brazil and
abroad. Currently, he is working on state capacities of emergent
countries, focusing on advising councils and new arenas of
public-private negotiations of the BRICS, as well as on tripartism in
Latin America.  

Andreas Nölke has published widely on topics such as financialization,
transnational private self-regulation, the International Accounting
Standards Board and the nature of capitalism in emerging economies, in
journals such as the Review of International Political Economy, World
Politics and the Journal of Common Market Studies. In addition to his
current assignment as Professor of Political Science at Goethe
University, he is working for the Amsterdam Research Centre for
International Political Economy/ARCIPE. Andreas obtained his Master's
degree in Public Administration at the University of Konstanz and he
earned his doctorate in Political Science at the same university. Before
joining Goethe University, he has taught at the universities of
Konstanz, Leipzig, Amsterdam and Utrecht. Andreas also served as
consultant in the field of development cooperation, mainly for the
German Agency for International Cooperation (GIZ), but also for the
European Commission and the World Bank. 
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Social Dimensions of State Capitalism in the BRICs, SASE
mini-conference, deadline January 20 
https://sase.org/mini-conferences/themes_fr_182.html#MC9