TY - JOUR
T1 - The Prerequisites for a Degrowth Paradigm Shift
T2 - Insights from Critical Political Economy
AU - Buch-Hansen, Hubert
N1 - Published online: 27 October 2017.
PY - 2018/4
Y1 - 2018/4
N2 - What would it take for a degrowth paradigm shift to take place? Drawing on contemporary critical political economy scholarship, this article identifies four prerequisites for socio-economic paradigm shifts: deep crisis, an alternative political project, a comprehensive coalition of social forces promoting the project in political struggles, and broad-based consent. It is argued that, on the one hand, there is much to suggest that current crises cannot be resolved under existing institutional frameworks and that degrowth is a political project that provides solutions to some of the key problems currently facing humanity. On the other hand, the prospects for a degrowth paradigm shift remain bleak: unlike political projects that became hegemonic in the past, degrowth has neither support from a comprehensive coalition of social forces nor any consent to its agenda among the broader population.
AB - What would it take for a degrowth paradigm shift to take place? Drawing on contemporary critical political economy scholarship, this article identifies four prerequisites for socio-economic paradigm shifts: deep crisis, an alternative political project, a comprehensive coalition of social forces promoting the project in political struggles, and broad-based consent. It is argued that, on the one hand, there is much to suggest that current crises cannot be resolved under existing institutional frameworks and that degrowth is a political project that provides solutions to some of the key problems currently facing humanity. On the other hand, the prospects for a degrowth paradigm shift remain bleak: unlike political projects that became hegemonic in the past, degrowth has neither support from a comprehensive coalition of social forces nor any consent to its agenda among the broader population.
KW - Crisis
KW - Critical political economy
KW - Institutional change
KW - Degrowth
KW - Paradigm shift
KW - Political projects
KW - Crisis
KW - Critical political economy
KW - Institutional change
KW - Degrowth
KW - Paradigm shift
KW - Political projects
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U2 - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.10.021
DO - 10.1016/j.ecolecon.2017.10.021
M3 - Journal article
VL - 146
SP - 157
EP - 163
JO - Ecological Economics
JF - Ecological Economics
SN - 0921-8009
ER -