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    <title>Contested transformative imaginaries: Economic reasoning and actor coalitions in Austria's corporatist setting</title>
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    <description>Title: Contested transformative imaginaries: Economic reasoning and actor coalitions in Austria's corporatist setting
Authors: Hager, Theresa; Porak, Laura; Pühringer, Stephan; Terhorst, Carlotta
Abstract: Despite widespread acknowledgment of the climate crisis, ambitious climate action remains constrained by competing visions of socio-ecological transformation (SET). Drawing on critical state theory, which conceptualizes the state as a "strategic terrain" where social forces struggle over hegemonic visions, this paper analyzes how transformative imaginaries shape political opportunity structures for climate policy in Austria's corporatist setting. We address two critical gaps in the SET literature: existing research discusses transformation visions abstractly without linking them to concrete policy-relevant actors, and the economic reasoning underlying these imaginaries remains largely unexamined. Using the SETER framework, we conduct a mixed-methods analysis combining discourse analysis with social network analysis to identify actor coalitions among Austria's major political parties and organized interest groups. Our findings reveal three distinct coalitions: Market-Driven Transition (emphasizing markets and innovation), Just Transition (prioritizing state intervention and distributional justice), and Ecological Modernization (emphasizing urgency and international cooperation). Despite differences in transformation pace and quality, substantial hegemonic consensus exists across actors - particularly regarding market-state tandems, techno-optimism, and growth orientation. This consensus reflects deep path dependencies and explains Austria's shift from environmental leader to climate laggard, demonstrating how economic reasoning and material interests constrain the political opportunity space for transformative climate action.</description>
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    <title>Primary definers of transformation? Actor power and the socio-ecological transformation discourse in Austrian media</title>
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    <description>Title: Primary definers of transformation? Actor power and the socio-ecological transformation discourse in Austrian media
Authors: Verità, Carlotta; Theine, Hendrik
Abstract: This contribution provides a first comprehensive mapping of the socio-ecological transformation (SET) landscape within the Austrian media (2015-2022). Utilizing a multi-layered mixed-methods framework that integrates Named Entity Recognition (NER), Structural Topic Modeling (STM), and Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA), we examine the "geography of voice" and the competing future-visions that define the mediated transformations. Our analysis reveals a landscape characterized by a dense institutional core where politicians and corporations command over 20% of total visibility, while civil society and international organizations remain less represented. This imbalance mirrors the thematic distribution of discourses, where structurally anchored themes like Nature/Biodiversity and Global Politics are increasingly backgrounded by sector-specific categories like Labour Market &amp; Regulatory Policy. The Market-driven transition imaginary, driven by institutional and corporate actors, dominates material discourses like energy and mobility through techno-optimist framing. Conversely, Contested Disruptions pushed by civil society are frequently marginalized or relegated to cultural niches. By identifying significant silences regarding radical redistribution and the Majority World, we argue that the Austrian media landscape delineates the boundaries of the possible in the ecological crisis.</description>
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    <title>Capitalism, class relations, and the role of the state in the AI era: A Kaleckian view</title>
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    <description>Title: Capitalism, class relations, and the role of the state in the AI era: A Kaleckian view
Authors: Raghavendra, Srinivas
Abstract: This paper examines how the financialization of advanced capitalist economies in the 1990s relates to the rise of artificial intelligence (AI) as the dominant technological framework in the 21st century. Using insights from political economy and Kaleckian theory, it suggests that AI is not a break from previous trends but a continuation and intensification of the computational rationality developed during the late 20th century's shift toward finance-led capitalism. The study highlights three structural limits that AI introduces to capitalist reproduction: the zero-slack labor constraint, the full-employment constraint, and resource limitations. These limits and their interactions threaten to destabilize the class relationship between capital and labor, the territorial basis of the state, and the legitimacy of democratic capitalism. The paper proposes that the emerging oligarchic state faces a legitimacy crisis that might be alleviated by universal basic income (UBI), which could serve as a political tool to maintain democratic support amid automation and inequality. It concludes by reflecting on how capitalism, much like an adaptive biological system, sustains itself through ongoing structural transformations, reshaping its institutions and practices to enable it to deflect existential threats while preserving its core logic of private appropriation.</description>
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    <title>Skewed perspectives: Media narratives on wealth-based taxation in German speaking countries</title>
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    <description>Title: Skewed perspectives: Media narratives on wealth-based taxation in German speaking countries
Authors: Theine, Hendrik; Stäudelmayr, Alexander; Maad, Magdalena; Grisold, Andrea; Gartiser, Moritz
Abstract: Rising wealth inequality is one of the defining challenges of the 21st century, threatening both equal opportunity and the foundations of democratic governance. Yet calls for taxing wealth remain limited, even though such measures could help curb inequality. Recognising the central role of media in shaping public opinion, this article investigates how narratives around wealth taxation are constructed and circulated in the media. Focusing on German-speaking countries- where wealth inequality is particularly pronounced-we employ a mixed-methods approach that combines structural topic modeling with qualitative narrative analysis. Our study identifies ten distinct economic narratives. Anti-tax narratives dominate public discourse, often questioning the feasibility of wealth taxation or framing pro-tax arguments as ideologically driven. In contrast, pro-tax narratives appear less frequently and are primarily oriented around principles of fairness and the need for systemic reform. The findings highlight notable differences in the prevalence and evolution of these narratives across countries and over time, but overall, a skewed perspective on wealth-based taxation.</description>
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