Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest - Couverture rigide

Leys, Colin

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9781859846278: Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest

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ISBN 10 : 1859846270 ISBN 13 : 9781859846278

Editeur : Verso Books, 2002

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Market-Driven Politics is a multi-level study, moving between an analysis of global economic forces through national politics to the changes occurring week by week in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyonetelevision broadcasting and health care. Public services like these play an important role, because they both affect the legitimacy of the government and are targets for global capital. This book provides an original analysis of the key processes of commodification of public services, the conversion of public-service workforces into employees motivated to generate profit, and the role of the state in absorbing risk. Understanding the dynamics of each of these trends becomes critical not just for the analysis of market-driven politics but also for the longer-term defense of democracy and the collective values on which it depends.

Revue de presse :

“Collin Leys's book drives a hole through the politics of the third way and the assertion by its government and multinational backers that it is possible to have universal services like the BBC and the NHS delivered in the marketplace. It cannot be praised highly enough.”—Allyson Pollock, School of Public Policy, University College, London

“Neoliberal democracy is arguably the most important political notion of our age, yet it is one that is very poorly understood. Colin Leys has come to our rescue with a brilliant and accessible presentation of the concept, chock full of hard empirical data and case studies. I strongly urge all who are concerned with the future of democracy to read this book.”—Robert W. McChesney, author of Rich Media, Poor Democracy

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