British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism
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British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Parallel Trajectories

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British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Parallel Trajectories

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This book employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including electoral politics and system of political representation.

Covering the period of 1980 to the present, the book provides analysis of how neoliberalism applies to the electoral sphere and draws the connections between the larger forces behind the globalising political economy and the trajectory of the corporate state and the many intersections of US and UK electoral politics – with lessons for other wealthy states that follow in similar pathways. As such, it helps explain a phenomenal parallel pattern of major political upheavals and social dislocations within these two countries. Finally, it reveals through numerous social indicators that the two leading neoliberal political economic systems are producing depressing results for large sections of their citizenry and a threat to social democracy, as the concentration of wealth and well-being is largely captured by a minority class of empowered individuals.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of electoral politics, political parties, political behaviour, British politics, U.S. politics and more broadly to readers interested in political economy and comparative politics.

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Publisher
Routledge
Year
2024
ISBN
9781040130773
Edition
1
Topic
Politics & International Relations
Subtopic
Politics
Index
Politics & International Relations

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series
  4. Title
  5. Copyright
  6. Dedication
  7. Contents
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. 1 Introduction: The Neoliberal Wave
  10. 2 The Neoliberal Transformation of Politics
  11. 3 The Construction of the New Voter
  12. 4 Comparative Electoral Politics: The Neoliberal Institutional Matrix
  13. 5 Challenges to the Status Quo, 2016–2022
  14. 6 Conclusion: Neoliberal Politics and the Future of Transatlantic Democracy
  15. References
  16. Index