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SUMMARY:Economic Adjustment and Political Transformation in Europe and the
  United States (Alcuin Lecture 2019) - Professor Erik Jones
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 e-2019-tickets-53687966152 \n\nNamed after Alcuin of York\, a teacher\, th
 eologian\, and poet who advised the Emperor Charlemagne\, this annual lect
 ure hosted by the Department of Politics and International Relations is gi
 ven on a topic concerning the UK and Europe.\n\nThe series was established
  with a generous gift from Lord Brittan\, former Vice-President of the Eur
 opean Commission\, who himself gave the first lecture in 1999. Since then 
 many UK European Commissioners have contributed to the series\, which has 
 also included Lord Hannay\, the former UK Permanent Representative to the 
 EU\, Carl Bildt of Sweden\, and Shirley Williams.\n\n\n\nSpeaker\nErik Jon
 es is Professor of European Studies and International Political Economy an
 d Director of European and Eurasian Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of
  Advanced International Studies. He is also Senior Research Associate at t
 he Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale in Milan.\n\nAbstract
 \nPolitics has moved from parties of mass integration\, through catch all 
 parties\, to cartel parties\, to increasing fragmentation. Markets have mo
 ved from capital controls and embedded liberalism\, to free capital moveme
 nts and macroeconomic imbalances. These two movements seem to run in paral
 lel even if they are not connected. Political elites have lost control ove
 r their supporters and economic elites have lost control over market force
 s. Now a different group of would-be elites is promising to take back that
  control. As part of that promise\, they vow to strengthen political and e
 conomic institutions. The question is whether the program they offer is ca
 pable of delivering superior economic outcomes and whether it is consisten
 t with democratic norms and values. There is strong reason to believe that
  economic performance will worsen rather than improving and that the contr
 ol these new elites promise and the procedures for democratic accountabili
 ty are incompatible. This discussion explores that potential incompatibili
 ty through case studies from Europe and North America. The goal is to show
  how similar developments are taking place in very different institutional
  environments and to consider the implications for economic performance\, 
 democratic stability\, and European integration.\n\n\n
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