- Ergen, T. and Rademacher, I. (2023). The Silicon Valley imaginary: US corporate tax reform in the 1980s. Socio-Economic Review, 21(2), pp. 935–957. doi:10.1093/ser/mwab051.
- Rademacher, I. (2022). Winning the votes for institutional change: how discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States. Policy Studies, 43(6), pp. 1173–1194. doi:10.1080/01442872.2021.1946027.
- Rademacher, I. (2022). One state, one interest? How a historic shock to the balance of power of the Bundesbank and the German government laid the path for fiscal austerity. Review of International Political Economy, 29(6), pp. 1987–2009. doi:10.1080/09692290.2021.1953109.
- Mavroudeas, S.D. (2022). Desmond McNeill, Fetishism and the Theory of Value: Reassessing Marx in the 21st Century. Competition & Change, 26(5), pp. 650–652. doi:10.1177/10245294211039671.
- Rademacher, I. (2022). Craig Berry, Julie Froud and Tom Barker (eds), The Political Economy of Industrial Strategy in the UK. Competition & Change, 26(5), pp. 653–655. doi:10.1177/10245294211044039.
- Rademacher, I. (2022). The entangled state: How state-business relations shaped the German corporate tax regime. Competition & Change, 26(2), pp. 220–241. doi:10.1177/1024529420985174.
- Berry, C., Rademacher, I. and Watson, M. (2022). Introduction to the special section on Financialization, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalization. Competition & Change, 26(2), pp. 215–219. doi:10.1177/10245294221086864.
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About
Overview
Biography
Inga Rademacher has joined the Department of International Politics in January 2023. She holds a PhD in Political Science from the Max Planck Institute of the Study of Societies in Cologne/University of Osnabrück and has held previous positions as a DAAD Fellow at King's College, London and as a lecturer at Goldsmiths, University of London.
Research
Inga's research is interested in the varieties of neoliberalism. It explores the critical juncture in the fiscal, monetary and financial spheres in advanced market economies in the 1980s. While much of the literature stresses strategies of states and economic agents, Inga's research focuses on the different interests, strategies and conflicts within the state. It finds that the rise of austerity and global finance resulted from a power struggle between central bankers and governments which had different domestic outcomes depending on the distribution of institutional power between these two spheres.
Inga examines the role of what she calls "micro-strategies" in the rise of neoliberal governance structures in four country cases: Germany, the UK, the US and Japan. She gathered archival documents and evaluates them through rigorous theory-testing process tracing with structured empirical tests (Beach and Pedersen 2013).
Inga currently works on a book manuscript entitled "Central Banks, Power, and the Varieties of Neoliberalism". It attempts to reconcile the fact that most Western industrialised economies implemented neoliberal reforms, but that these reforms differed across countries: some economies emphasised anti-inflation policies and austerity (Germany and Japan), while others focused on financial deregulation (the UK and the US). Building on institutionalist theories, this book intends to explore how the interplay of global economic crisis and domestic power relations between central banks and governments shaped regimes. Powerful central banks (like the Bundesbank) had the capacity to attain low-inflation policies and pushed for fiscal austerity, while weaker central banks (like the Bank of England) supported financialisation to stabilise the economy and to extend their powers in the larger macroeconomic framework. The manuscript makes a plea for better understanding state-actor agency and how it shaped economic regimes.
Inga's work on central banks has been discussed in blogs including Phenomenal World and Adam Tooze’s Chartbooks
Forbes magazine had a feature article on her work on state-actor strategies and tax cuts.
Research projects
Inga is a member of a research project which explores the "Political Economy of Growth Models in an Age of Stagnation". The project is led by Prof. Engelbert Stockhammer (King's College, London) and is funded by a Leverhulme Research Grant. Inga leads one work stream of this project which is interested in how fiscal-monetary relations within and outside the EMU have shaped differential economic outcomes since the Global Financial Crisis.
Recent publications
2021. One state, one interest? How a historic shock to the balance of power of the Bundesbank and the German government laid the path for fiscal austerity. Review of International Political Economy: link text
2021. With Timur Ergen. The Silicon Valley imaginary: US corporate tax reform in the 1980s. Socio-Economic Review link text
2021. Winning the votes for institutional change: How discursive acts of compromise shaped radical income tax reforms in the United States. Policy Studie: link text
2022. With Craig Berry & Matthew Watson. Introduction to the special section on Financialisation, state action and the contested policy practices of neoliberalisation. Competition & Change link text
2021. The entangled state: How state-business relations shaped the German corporate tax regime. Competition & Change: link text
Qualifications
- PhD in Political Science, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Germany, Sep 2013 – Sep 2017
Employment
- Lecturer in International Political Economy, City, University of London, Jan 2023 – present
- DAAD Fellow in German and Transnational Relations, King's College, London, Sep 2018 – Jan 2023
- Lecturer in International Political Economy, Goldsmiths University of London, Sep 2017 – Sep 2018