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The SAGE Handbook of Political Sociology offers a comprehensive and contemporary look at this evolving field of study. The focus is on political life itself and the chapters, written by a highly-respected and international team of authors, cover the core themes which need to be understood in order to study political life from a sociological perspective, or simply to understand the political world. The two volumes are structured around five key areas: PART 1: TRADITIONS AND PERSPECTIVES PART 2: CORE CONCEPTS PART 03: POLITICAL IDEOLOGIES AND MOVEMENTS PART 04: TOPICS PART 05: WORLD REGIONS This future-oriented and cross-disciplinary handbook is a landmark text for students and scholars interested in the social investigation of politics.
Chapter 28: Neoliberalism and the Study of ‘Isms'1
Neoliberalism is a Western political ideology that sets apart and sacralizes the market. It is ‘neo’ in at least two senses. One sense is historical: neoliberalism's articulators were wartime-generation academics and professionals who were reacting to the emergence of new regulatory, welfarist, labor-friendly, and Keynesian institutions between the 1930s and the 1960s – that is, a very specific set of historical circumstances. The second sense in which neoliberalism is ‘neo’ has to do with its governmental logic: the distinctive logic of neoliberalism is that markets are both the means and ends of government, as opposed to the liberal dictate that the state should end where ...
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