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.
Spanning five decades of British political history and drawing on rich empirical evidence to bring conceptual clarity to, and chart the effects of, a style of government bound up with a host of epochal changes, it concludes by considering Brexit and the rise of Corbynism as the final act in the neoliberal saga. It then poses the question, Is British politics on the verge of a major reconstruction representing a decisive rejection of neoliberalism?
This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of British politics and neoliberalism, liberalism and, more broadly to political theory, political economy and public policy.
By:
Christopher Byrne (Leeds Beckett University UK.) Imprint: Routledge Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 234mm,
Width: 156mm,
Weight: 417g ISBN:9781138541559 ISBN 10: 1138541559 Series:Routledge Studies in British Politics Pages: 176 Publication Date:20 September 2018 Audience:
College/higher education
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Primary
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
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
Christopher Byrne is Lecturer in the School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, UK.