Identifying Critical Junctures in Macroeconomic Policy - The Cases of Mexico and Sweden in the Early 1980s

Authors

Ana Haro MazaFollow
John Hogan, Technological University DublinFollow

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

5.6 POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political science

Publication Details

Open Areas Journal

Abstract

Abstract: This paper utilizes a new critical junctures framework to help understand the nature of the changes in macroeconomic policy. The framework consists of three elements which must be identified in sequence to be able to declare, with some certainty, if an event was a critical juncture. These are crisis, ideational change, and radical policy change. Utilizing the critical juncture framework, we will determine whether changes to Mexican and Swedish macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s constituted clean breaks with the past, or were continuations of previously established policy pathways, and why that was.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.2174/18749143009020100039]

Recommended Citation

Maza, A. L. H., and Hogan, J. (2009). Identifying Critical junctures in macroeconomic policy:the cases of Mexico and Sweden in the early 1980s. Open Areas Journal 2, pp. 46-56. doi:10.2174/18749143009020100039]