Adam Harmes

Western University | UWO · Department of Political Science

This article examines political marketing in post-conflict elections through an illustrative case study of post-Saddam Iraq. It does so through articles and media reports as well as interviews and participant-observation research conducted in Iraq during the 2014 national and provincial elections. The article argues that, despite having a number of...

In the IPE literature, neoliberalism and nationalism have generally been portrayed as anti-thetical to one another. More recently, scholars have sought to challenge this binary view by examining how nationalists have employed neoliberal policies for nationalist reasons. However, while showing how neoliberal policies can be compatible with nationali...

Stephen Gill has argued that a key component of the contemporary neo-liberal project is the growing use of legal-juridical mechanisms designed to separate economics from politics in order to ‘lock in’ neo liberal policies over the long term. The intent of this process, which he terms the ‘new constitutionalism’, is to insulate economic policies fro...

This article examines the potential effectiveness of socially responsible investment (SRI) and investor environmentalism through carbon disclosure in terms of their key goal of creating real financial incentives, through share price performance, for firms to pursue climate change mitigation. It does so by theoretically assessing the two main assump...

This chapter seeks to contribute to the development of progressive political strategy by examining the role of crises in progressive imagin-aries and by comparing the views of liberal and progressive social forces on globalization and global governance. It argues for the need to focus less on the potential for a large-scale crisis to create the pol...

This article examines the federal Conservative party's notion of “open federalism” from a political economy perspective. In doing so, it argues that open federalism will appeal to business interests and not to unions and social activists, because it is consistent with the neoliberal approach to federalism which seeks to lock in free market-ori...

This article examines and theorizes neoliberal ideas related to the scale aspects of multilevel governance. It argues that neoliberalism contains a self-conscious normative project for multilevel governance which is consistent across the federal, regional and global levels. It further argues that the underlying logic of this project can be usefully...

The New Masters of Capital: American Bond Rating Agencies and the Politics of Creditworthiness. By Timothy J. Sinclair. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005. 208p. $29.95. In his book, Timothy J. Sinclair makes a strong theoretical and empirical contribution to the growing political economy literature on the increasing influence of nonstate a...

Private Power and Global Authority: Transnational Merchant Law in the Global Political Economy, A. Claire Cutler, Cambridge Studies in International Relations; Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. xiv, 306 In Private Power and Global Authority, Claire Cutler presents a theoretically rich and historically detailed account of the interrel...

This article examines the impact of hedge funds on the workings of international financial markets and their implications for public policy. In contrast to the neoclassical view of hedge funds, which views them as being'too-small-to-matter, this article argues that the activities of hedge funds are significant for policymakers because of their abil...

Whereas the previous chapter examines the multiple factors which contributed to the onset of the Asian financial crisis, this chapter aims to highlight and expand on the role of western portfolio investment and its contribution to the speculative mania which preceded the crisis. At present, most explanations of the 1997 East Asian crisis focus on e...

This article constructs a model of contemporary currency crises which incorporates the role played by institutional investors and the dynamics associated with Karl Polanyi's notion of the 'double movement'. Polanyi's double movement, and its recognition of the need to integrate politics with economics, is used to explain why so many governments are...

Despite their increasing prominence within the contemporary financial system, the collective impact of institutional investors (i.e. mutual, pension and hedge funds) and, in particular, their role in the reproduction of neoliberalism has received little attention among scholars. The argument of this article is that a focus on institutional investor...

Thesis (Ph. D.)--York University, 2000. Includes bibliographical references.