Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism

Canterbury, Dennis C.

doi:10.4324/9781351152846

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“…In short, the expansion of neoliberalization creates violence through the transformation of economies, similar to what Durkheim (1893) observed during the industrial revolution. However, the unique nature of neoliberalism, according to Alvarado and Massey (2010), encourages violence through the top-down implementation of market-based polices that cause the numbers of marginalized people to swell (see also Canterbury 2005;Springer 2009Springer , 2011.…”

Section: Neoliberalism and Violencementioning

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Exploring the Relationship between Neoliberalism and Homicide: A Cross-National Perspective

McLean

Long

Stretesky

et al. 2019

International Journal of Sociology

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Research has shown that neoliberal economic policies may increase violence. In this study we extend this logic to create a "neoliberalism-homicide hypothesis." We test this hypothesis using two global measures of neoliberalism (the Economic Freedom of the World Index and the Index of Economic Freedom) and 2014 homicide rates for 142 nations. Regression analysis provides little support for the neoliberalism-homicide hypothesis using the global indexes. However, when examining factors that make up these indexes we discover that as size of government and tax burden become more neoliberal across nations, homicide rates increase. A post hoc exploratory analysis suggests that the association between government size, spending, taxes, and homicide is largely indirect and manifests through economic inequality and poverty. That is, neoliberal government policies appear to increase poverty and inequality which, in turn, lead to higher rates of homicide. We situate our findings within the broader literature on neoliberalism and violence and suggest directions for future research.

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Section: Neoliberalism and Violencementioning

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Exploring the Relationship between Neoliberalism and Homicide: A Cross-National Perspective

McLean

Long

Stretesky

et al. 2019

International Journal of Sociology

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“…Growing inequality due to neoliberalism is regarded as a peril to democracy across the globe (Piketty, 2014;Stiglitz, 2013). In developing regions, right-wing parties and politicians have often taken authoritarian forms, prioritising capitalism over democracy (Canterbury, 2019;Cyper, 2004;Deyo, 1989;Springer, 2009). Neoliberalism came to a Chilean dictator before it reached Western European democracies (Dale, 2012: 11).…”

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Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’

Lim

2021

Current Sociology

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Radical right-wing politics is often regarded as a populist movement for social protection against economic globalisation. As a solution, contemporary Polanyian critics often suggest reforming left parties to reorient populist movements from the right to the left by building a broad non-capitalist coalition. Through a close reading of Polanyi’s works, this article offers an alternative diagnosis and prescription for preventing radical right-wing empowerment. Polanyi explains that fascists gained political power through support from capitalist elites. Political democratisation threatened the separation of the market from politics, and the war and depression resulted in the dysfunction of the market economy. In this situation, capitalist elites chose fascism – a radical measure to protect capitalism by destroying democracy. This article argues that, in order to prevent radical right-wing empowerment, we should look up, to the capitalist economy and the ruling classes, rather than only down, to welfare chauvinism and the ‘people’.

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“…Across a wide range of disciplines, many researchers have examined various forms and configurations of illiberal/authoritarian/post-authoritarian and neoliberal power relations (Brown, 2003(Brown, , 2006Canterbury, 2005;Dahi & Munif, 2012;Giroux, 2004;Ismail, 2011;Koch, 2014Koch, , 2016Koch, , 2017Martin, 2007;Springer, 2009aSpringer, , 2009bWatts, 2004). In particular, the term 'authoritarian neoliberalism' has recently been used by scholars to highlight how state force is deployed with neoliberalism, despite neoliberalism's claims of shrinking the state (Bruff, 2014(Bruff, , 2016(Bruff, , 2017Kaygusuz, 2018;Tansel, 2017).…”

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“…While we have focused on quarantine policies and othering in this subsection, it should be noted that other forms of state violence such as the media blackout, censorship and propaganda continued during this later stage. For example, the government ordered the Korean conservative press to blame the first hospital where the infectious diseases initially spread for the massive outbreak (Cheon, 2017). This contrasts with worldwide media coverage, including that of the WHO, which framed the Korean MERS outbreak due to the 'botched' government response and 'incompetent' health officials (WHO, 2015b).…”

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“…This contrasts with worldwide media coverage, including that of the WHO, which framed the Korean MERS outbreak due to the 'botched' government response and 'incompetent' health officials (WHO, 2015b). Also, the Korean government monitored the bereaved families of MERS victims and tried to block their gathering, once the number of victims increased (Cheon, 2017).…”

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When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea

Lim

Sziarto

2020

Territory, Politics, Governance

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This paper investigates infectious disease mismanagement as a way of understanding the mixture of neoliberal and illiberal governance in public health. While acknowledging the significant role of neoliberalization in public health, we call for tracing geographies of illiberalism in relation to various actors, and through various scales and processes of governance, such as private power and state absence. Through a case study of the spread of Middle East respiratory syndrome (MERS) throughout South Korea in 2015, this research demonstrates how neoliberal transformations in public health and illiberal practices of disease management allowed a severe outbreak of MERS, while being of benefit to a few private actors. In the MERS response, state absence via non-response such as cover-ups and censorship exacerbated state violence such as drastic quarantine and othering. Further, the South Korean government-chaebol nexus has profoundly privatized both disease management and public health, as well as intensified the responsibilization of individuals. By explaining how illiberal and neoliberal processes and particular actors came to matter in politics of infectious diseases in Korea, this paper contributes to the sociopolitical understanding of infectious diseases and public health in a mixture of authoritarianism and neoliberalism.

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Neoliberal Democratization and New Authoritarianism

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Exploring the Relationship between Neoliberalism and Homicide: A Cross-National Perspective

Exploring the Relationship between Neoliberalism and Homicide: A Cross-National Perspective

Look up rather than down: Karl Polanyi’s fascism and radical right-wing ‘populism’

When the illiberal and the neoliberal meet around infectious diseases: an examination of the MERS response in South Korea

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