Abstract

The growth models perspective analyzes the role of social blocs in crafting countries’ economic policies, but its treatment of business power as purely structural prevents it from addressing an important question in the politics of digital transformation: How have new sectors with miniscule economic footprints been able to influence economic policy? This article explores how tech and venture capital successfully lobbied for financial liberalization at the beginning of digital transformation in the United States. The article argues that explaining the role of social blocs in digital transformation requires incorporating discourse analysis and develops a conceptual framework around three causal mechanisms in the dynamics of social blocs: formation, influence, and endurance. This framework contributes to theory development in the growth models perspective and improves our understanding of the character of business power in digital transformation.

摘要

增长模型视角分析了社会集团在制定国家经济政策中的作用，但将商业力量视为纯粹结构性的观点使其无法解决数字转型政治中的一个重要问题：经济足迹微乎其微的新部门如何能够影响经济政策？本文探讨了科技和风险投资如何在美国数字化转型初期成功游说金融自由化。本文认为，解释社会集团在数字化转型中的作用需要结合话语分析，并围绕社会集团动态中的三种因果机制：形成、影响和持久性建立一个概念框架。