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Nov 20, 2024 · REVIEW ESSAY Democracy in Default: Finance and the Rise of Neoliberalism in America by Brian Judge Columbia University Press, 2024, 352 pages. S ince the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008, policymakers have broken free of historical norms, channeling trillions—sometimes from thin air—to prop up the global financial system. The coronavirus ...
This chapter argues that the 2016 election in the United States is best understood in terms of the long-run consequences of the neoliberal turn in the 1970s, and the way in which the financial crisis of the late 2000s was addressed.
Jul 17, 2023 · Neoliberalism, in the American context, can be understood as a reaction against mid-century liberalism. Neoliberals think that the state should play a smaller role in managing the economy and ...
- Louis Menand
Oct 25, 2023 · Neoliberalism’s animosity toward democracy can also be felt in the developed world specifically: because of the ‘profoundly anti-democratic nature of neoliberalism [. . .] [t]he democratic deficit in nominally “democratic” countries such as the US is now enormous’.
- Tibor Rutar
Jun 9, 2020 · 1 INTRODUCTION 1. The neoliberal assault on democracy is without doubt one of the most pressing concerns for critical democratic theory today. Although the economic policies it tends to advocate and the cultural agenda it is wont to generate are objectionable to many, neoliberalism's anti-democratic disposition troubles the progressive mind more fundamentally because it threatens to undermine ...
- Lars Cornelissen
- 2020
Jun 29, 2024 · The relationship between neoliberalism and democracy has been a topic of debate among scholars for decades. Neoliberalism, an economic and political ideology that emphasizes free markets, deregulation, and privatization, has gained global influence but has also been criticized for undermining democratic institutions.
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Oct 30, 2019 · Readers looking to understand neoliberalism and neoliberalization as they relate to US politics ought to begin by learning how the term is defined and how it circulates within academic discourse. The term is widely used among scholars and critical theorists on the left who reject the intellectual and political underpinnings of capitalism’s recent developments in the Anglo-American sphere and ...
