Aug 2026· Contemporary European History· Vol 35· 0 citations· 8 references
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While the history of neoliberalism and Thatcherism in the United Kingdom has been the subject of much analysis, the history of ordoliberalism, a German variety of neoliberalism, in the same country is unexplored. Drawing on grey policy literature and archival material from inside party political discourses, this article examines engagements with the core ordoliberal concept of the social market economy in British political discourse and identifies not isolated incidents but a recurrent and sustained engagement from the 1970s to the 1990s. Across this periodisation, social markets, and with it ordoliberalism, appear in three different policy debates, in the Conservative Party, the Social Democratic Party and the Labour Party. This variety of neoliberalism, and its accompanying social and moral thought, features in the legitimation of neoliberalism and neoliberal policies.
This essay intervenes in contemporary debates around neoliberalism and its relationship to both authoritarianism and social democracy. It does so by reconstructing the debate on Thatcherism that took place between Stuart Hall and Bob Jessop in the 1980s. Both authors provide materialist analyses of Thatcherism that p...
Daniel McLoughlin· Historical Materialism· 0 citations
This thesis provides a historical and structural reexamination of the Republican Party’s role in shaping American foreign policy from 1945 to 1953. Defying the historiography of a frictionless postwar consensus and an executive branch-centered narrative, this historical chronological study demonstrates that the Republi...
The aim of this study is to assess the relationship between the neoliberal economic policies implemented in Türkiye in the post-1980 period and crime, as well as certain social problems associated with crime, within the framework of Robert K. Merton’s Strain Theory. The study examines the economic, political and cultur...
Neoliberalism remains a contested narrative within global capitalism, requiring alliances across social classes and political fractions. Within this landscape, progressive neoliberalism occupies a distinct position, representing an alliance between financial capital and progressive elements of social movements. Origina...
Taşkın Toprak İpek, Emre Önkibar· Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversi...· 0 citations
Neoliberalism is an ideology that prioritizes market rationality, self-responsibility, and economic interests. Neoliberalism has been used to promote environmental solutions, but also to undermine social good. This study seeks to situate two recent environment and public health related Supreme Court cases, West Virgini...
Abstract Ordo-liberalism constitutes a distinct set of ideas within twentieth-century classical liberalism. Through examining key ordo-liberal ideas expressed in the works of two prominent and representative ordo-liberals—Walter Eucken and Wilhelm Röpke—this essay explores how ordo-liberals sought to integrate the case...
Samuel Gregg· Social Philosophy and Policy· 0 citations
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