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The New Political Economy of the Macroprudential Ideational Shift

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From late 2008 onwards, in the space of six months, international financial regulatory networks centred around the Swiss city of Basel presided over a startlingly rapid ideational shift, the significance and importance of which remains to be deciphered. From being relatively unpopular and very much on the sidelines, the idea of macroprudential regulation (MPR) moved to the centre of the policy agenda and came to represent a new Basel consensus, as the principal interpretative frame, for financial technocrats and regulators seeking to diagnose and understand the financial crisis and to advance institutional blueprints for regulatory reform. This article sets out to explain how and why that ideational shift occurred. It identifies four scoping conditions of presence, position, promotion, and plausibility, that account for the successful rise to prominence of macroprudential ideas through an insiders' coup d'�tat. The final section of the article argues that this macroprudential shift is an example of a 'gestalt flip' or third order change in Peter Hall's terms, but it is not yet a paradigm shift, because the development of first order policy settings and second order policy instruments is still ongoing, giving the macroprudential ideational shift a highly contested and contingent character.

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  • Andrew Baker, 2013. "The New Political Economy of the Macroprudential Ideational Shift," New Political Economy, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 18(1), pages 112-139, February.
  • Handle: RePEc:taf:cnpexx:v:18:y:2013:i:1:p:112-139
    DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2012.662952
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