Abstract

In the context of post-crisis global economic governance, the global financial inclusion agenda is widely supported by international organizations, states, and civil society organizations. Some scholars attribute the rise of this agenda to the logic of neoliberalism and power of global financial actors, yet these accounts often obscure the role of ambiguity in facilitating broad support. In scholarship on coalition politics, ambiguity is often attributed to the strategic behaviour and framing techniques of central actors (e.g. entrepreneurs). In this article, I develop the novel framework of participatory ambiguity to explain the origins of the financial inclusion agenda and theorize the co-production of ambiguity among members of the supporting coalition. By tracing the development of the agenda, I identify the origins of its ambiguity in the efforts of disparate actors to shape the purposes and direction of the agenda in favourable ways across development, economic, and security domains. This article thus offers a more complete explanation of the origins of financial inclusion at the global level. It also provides an original theoretical perspective on the construction of ideas, agency, ambiguity, and global coalitions that can be used to better explain the development of other global policy agendas.

摘要

在危机后全球经济治理的背景下，全球普惠金融议程得到国际组织、国家和民间社会组织的广泛支持。一些学者将这一议程的兴起归因于新自由主义的逻辑和全球金融参与者的权力，但这些说法往往掩盖了模糊性在促进广泛支持方面的作用。在联盟政治的学术研究中，模棱两可通常归因于核心参与者（例如企业家）的战略行为和框架技术。在本文中，我开发了参与式模糊性的新框架，以解释金融包容性议程的起源，并对支持联盟成员之间共同产生的模糊性进行理论化。通过跟踪议程的发展，我确定了其模棱两可的根源在于不同的行为者努力以有利的方式在发展、经济和安全领域塑造议程的目的和方向。因此，本文对全球范围内普惠金融的起源提供了更完整的解释。它还提供了关于构建思想、代理、模糊性和全球联盟的原创理论视角，可用于更好地解释其他全球政策议程的发展。