1. Structure / Agency conudrum
   1. Structure
      1. =CONTEXT that exhibits certain regularities
      2. Context = how things are set up
      3. Repetition
      4. Hidden Structure (Invisible)
         1. i.e. Power
      5. Individuals (agents) bearers of the structure = cannot do anything - they replicate the structure
      6. Characteristics
         1. In depth ontology
            1. not just what we see
         2. System based analysis
         3. Synchrony
            1. every single constituent has a role
            2. looking at the bigger picture and understanding those roles
         4. Determinism
            1. predictability
            2. Structuralism = Science
      7. LImitations
         1. the direction of causality
            1. starting from A to B or B to A (which way?)
         2. Determinism
            1. predicting the future - which elements?
            2. Agents to change the system (today)
            3. Legitimacy Problem = subject object problem
            4. who are those deciding
      8. Examples
         1. Dependency Theory
         2. Hyper Globalisation Theory
   2. Agency
      1. = Conduct
      2. Actors / Players
      3. REFELXIVITY
         1. ability to evaluate the course of our actions
      4. Motivation and Intention
         1. regarding or disregarding rules
      5. Downplays the importance of structures
         1. voter's behaviour
         2. meritocracy = work hard to become rich
         3. Personality of certain People
            1. i.e. Rise and Fall of Saddam Hussain
      6. Examples
         1. Rational Choice / Neo Classical Economics?
         2. Pluralism
         3. Public Choice
         4. Idealism
   3. Dialectical Approaches
      1. Mutually Constitutive
         1. Structuration Giddens
            1. Duality of Structure
            2. Coin analogy
            3. Bracketing Off
            4. Structuration
            5. Critique
            6. Not a new way but neoliberlism with a human face
         2. Strategic Relational Apporach
            1. map figure 3.1. (insert pic)
            2. Constructivism
            3. Identity matters
            4. Multiple Realities (constructed by individuals)
            5. Interest = social construction
            6. Intra and Inter-subjectivity
            7. Role of Ideas
            8. strategic w/o utility
            9. appropriating of the context
            10. Structure = Context
      2. Morphogenetic approach
         1. Structure comes first
         2. Changes of structure postdate action
         3. Archer (1996) picture
            1. Structural Conditioning
            2. Social Interaction
            3. Structural elaboration
2. Material / Ideational
   1. Ideational
      1. Turner
         1. Peripheral Concepts
         2. Adjacentet Concepts
      2. Neoliberalism =
         1. =ideology
         2. Primacy of ideas
         3. Concepts and ideas
         4. System of belief
   2. Material
      1. Vehicle to restore / preserve class power
      2. Liberalism as a PROJECT
      3. Neoliberalism =
         1. best allocation of governance
         2. particular form of capitalism
         3. Marxis: capitalism = specific mode of production that is dispossessing people
   3. Ideational-Material
      1. Neo Gramscian
      2. Cox
      3. Neoliberalism =
         1. Hegemonic Project
   4. Material-Ideational
      1. All Marxists are Materialists
      2. Not all materialists are marxists
      3. Harvey
         1. Financial capital is different from Industrial capital
      4. Marxian Tradition
      5. ROA
         1. Capital Creation
         2. Capital Criculation
         3. Capital Distribution
         4. Four Types of Growth Regimes : capital extensive, capital intensive, mass consumption production, post-fordist
      6. MOR
         1. role of social pacts
         2. role of ideas
         3. role of legal frameworks
      7. Neoliberalism =
         1. regime created in a particular time?????
3. Definition
   1. Dependent on the analytical lenses
   2. Associated with Washington Consensus