Élie COHEN - Economic constraint and political action

Pouvoirs n°68 - Qui gouverne la France ? - janvier 1994 - p.87-100

Economic constraint does not exist as such but is an instrument in the political game, as exemplified by the so-called european constraint, which is at once a deliberate policy and the result of our democracy’s inability to envisage its own reform. What is called constraint is more often than not a political technology through which one attempts to present a reaching political choices as automatic. This approach was recently submitted to a radical test : the monetary crisis of the summer of 1993 during which governments seemed to surrender to the markets. Résumé

Référence électonique : Élie COHEN, "Economic constraint and political action", Pouvoirs, revue française d’études constitutionnelles et politiques, n°68, 1994, p.87-1. Consulté le 17-02-2012. URL : http://www.revue-pouvoirs.fr/Economic-constraint-and-political.html