Join our CPERN Online Workshop on Thursday, 28 May at 6pm CET to discuss Adriano Cozzolino’s recent article!
Register here: link tbd
Speaker
Adriano Cozzolino is an Assistant Professor of Global Politics at Università degli Studi della Campania. He specialises in International and European political economy and Political Science, while his research interests mainly revolve around the theory of the state and of state transformations in the era of neoliberal globalization.
Discussant
Yuliya Yurchenko, Senior Lecturer in Political Economy, University of Greenwich
Find the article here: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1057/s41295-025-00454-3?utm_source=researchgate.net&utm_medium=article
Abstract
This article theorises the convergence between technocracy and neoliberalism as a core component of contemporary European governance. It develops the concept of technocratic–neoliberal fix to explain how technocracy and permanent neoliberalization have co-evolved into a stable governance regime. The paper develops through a dual analytical strategy: first, it reconstructs the epistemic and political foundations of this hybrid rationality; second, it examines its historical and institutional materialisation through the Italian case within the European Union. Italy provides a paradigmatic context for tracing the long-term embedding of technocratic and neoliberal logics within the state, from the 1980s monetarist turn to the succession of technocratic governments from the early 1990s until the Covid−19 pandemic. The analysis reveals how technocratic and neoliberal logics coalesce into a multilevel and enduring regime that dramatically narrows the boundaries of democratic politics in Europe.
See you there!
Critical Political Economy Research Network (RN06) 