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The Roots of Populism - Neoliberalism and Working-Class Lives (Hardcover)
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The Roots of Populism - Neoliberalism and Working-Class Lives (Hardcover)
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Since the emergence of neoliberalism in the early 1980s, the
interests of the working class have become progressively more
marginalized within mainstream politics in the United Kingdom.
Years of austerity politics following the financial crash of 2008
deepened popular disenchantment with the political class, paving
the way for the 2016 Brexit referendum result. This, Brian Elliot
argues, has precipitated a crisis of British democracy. Does the
current wave of populism constitute a threat to or promise for
democracy? What has led to the emergence of populism and to what
extent can populism be shaped into a program of progressive reform
of democracy today? In this timely new book, Brian Elliott takes a
long view on populism, tracing its history back to the struggles
waged by the British workers' movement of the nineteenth century to
gain general enfranchisement. Countering the depiction of populism
as a degradation of liberal democratic political culture into a
xenophobic rejection of pluralism, internationalism and
multiculturalism, Elliott argues that the populist sentiment
contains the promise of a renewal of democratic political culture.
Identifying and examining the contemporary challenges of work,
Elliott outlines a new working-class politics to overturn the
neoliberal logic that has come to dominate mainstream political
thinking over the last forty years. -- .
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