Valtiomuutoksen tuottaminen Suomessa : poliittisen maantieteen näkökulma

Författare

• Sami Moisio

Abstract

Fundamental state restructuring has taken place in Finland over the past fifteen years. This trans­formation is increasingly revolving around the spatial dimension of statehood. The nation-state as the primary scale of political regulation and articulation is increasingly challenged in contempo­rary political action concerning the ”survival of Finland”. It is argued that the key dimension of the current debate on state transformation touches upon the issue of getting out of the Keynesian welfare state tradition. Three conclusions follow from the empirical analysis. First, the role of state territory is increasingly re-imagined in most neoliberal arguments of state space. Secondly, the Keynesian spatial fixes still cause significant inertia regarding the construction of a state based on pure economic engineering. Thirdly, the anticipation between Keynesian spatial com­promise and Schumpeterian economic reasoning will most obviously lead to growing tensions in the field of regional politics and planning.