1st Edition

Neoliberalisms in British Politics

By Christopher Byrne Copyright 2019
186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

186 Pages
by Routledge

Taking a chronological approach, this book challenges established economistic and ideologistic narratives of neoliberalism in Britain by charting the gradual diffusion of an increasingly interventionist neoliberal governmental rationality in British politics since the late 1970s, and the various means by which the project has furnished itself with a hegemonic basis for its popular support.... Read more

1. Introduction  2. Thatcherism, Authoritarian Populism and ‘Roll-back’ Neoliberalism  3. New Labour, 'Modernisation' and ‘Roll-out’ Neoliberalism  4. The Big Society and Neoliberalism after the Crash  5. Conclusion: Explaining Neoliberal Resilience

Biography

Christopher Byrne is Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.