Dedemocratizing citizenship
How Neoliberalism Used Market Justice to Move From Welfare Queening to Authoritarianism in 25 Short Years
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5122408 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Margaret R Somers (0000-0003-4751-6808, Departments of Sociology and History, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue | 4-5 |
| Pages | 661-674 |
| Publication date | 2022-07-04 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Citizenship Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1362-1025 • E-ISSN: 1469-3593 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13621025.2022.2091250 |
| OpenAlex | W4284878703 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 7 |
| References cited | 12 |
Twenty-five years ago the new citizenship studies rightly predicted the egregious inegalitarian effects of neoliberalism’s dismantling of the social welfare state, but misrecognised the cause as a retreat of the state and the return of unfettered market forces. That continuing misrecognition obscures the roots of today’s surging authoritarianism and the dedemocratization of citizenship. The attack on social citizenship was instead a battle over control of the predistributive powers that engineer the market economy. Because social citizenship is not merely an effect of democracy but also one of its conditions, neoliberalism weaponized the moral economy of market justice and the mechanisms of dedemocratization against expanded social rights to give cover to its now increasingly successful war against democratic citizenship
Authoritarianism · Citizenship · Democracy · Economic Justice · Economic system · Economics · Law and economics · Neoliberalism (international relations) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Social citizenship · Social contract · Social rights · Sociology · State (computer science) · Welfare state · Law · Social Policy and Reform Studies
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| Unique citing works | 7 |
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| Citations per year | 1,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 6 |