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When Policy Feedback Fails: "Collective Cooling" in Detroit's Municipal Bankruptcy

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Hyman,  Mikell
Soziologie des Marktes, MPI for the Study of Societies, Max Planck Society;

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Hyman, M. (2020). When Policy Feedback Fails: "Collective Cooling" in Detroit's Municipal Bankruptcy. Theory and Society, 49(4), 633-668. doi:10.1007/s11186-020-09387-0.


引用: https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-1048-7
要旨
The received wisdom among welfare state scholars is that policy feedbacks render social insurance programs durable. Yet, in the case of Detroit’s municipal bankruptcy, a voting majority of retired city workers accepted a settlement that asked them to waive key legal protections, formally accept gutted medical benefits, trimmed pension benefits, and a new public-private pension financing mechanism. This article synthesizes interactionist theories of loss to introduce the concept of “collective cooling.” I argue that collective cooling helps to establish the limits of policy feedbacks by explaining how a group of retirees’ collective self-understandings were adjusted from that of contractual rights holders to charitable dependents. Key components of this process included: First, seeking to adjust understandings of how pensioners were perceived by powerful outsiders; And, second, seeking to adjust the loss from one that reflected poorly on pensioners to one that did not. Implications are discussed for how people accept unexpected economic losses, especially those imposed by a trusted institution such as an employer or government organization.