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Schwan, Michael ORCID: 0000-0003-0089-2742 (2017). Which roads lead to Wall Street? The financialization of regions in the European Union. Comp. Eur. Polit., 15 (4). S. 661 - 684. BASINGSTOKE: PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD. ISSN 1740-388X

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Abstract

This paper investigates the financialization of regions in the European Union. It zooms in on the regional level and provides and systemic and macrostructural analysis of the factors that account an increase in finance and insurance activities. Theoretically, the argument highlights the crucial importance of various forms of indebtedness as the social, economic and political relationship that constitutes financialization processes. Empirically, the paper stresses the subnational dimension and thus contributes to fill an important, yet largely underappreciated gap in the political economy of finance. In order to fully grasp the extent to which financialization has transformed capitalism throughout the last three decades, it seems indispensable to include regions into the analysis. By injecting geography into the political economic debate, the paper might animate future research and a renewed discussion on regional specificities.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Schwan, Michael UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0089-2742 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-228267
DOI:	10.1057/s41295-017-0098-6
Journal or Publication Title:	Comp. Eur. Polit.
Volume:	15
Number:	4
Page Range:	S. 661 - 684
Date:	2017
Publisher:	PALGRAVE MACMILLAN LTD
Place of Publication:	BASINGSTOKE
ISSN:	1740-388X
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language POLITICAL-ECONOMY; REGULATIONIST PERSPECTIVE; REAL-ESTATE; FINANCIALISATION; CAPITALISM; FINANCE; VARIETIES; CRISIS; STATE; REGIME Multiple languages Political Science Multiple languages
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/22826