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 Virginia v. EPA (2022) and City and County of San Francisco v. EPA (2025) within a neoliberal framework. I analyzed two case studies in order to identify the ways this powerful ideology is used in policy debates on a national stage. I examined the court opinion, concurrence, and dissent statements from each court case by identifying phrases that concur with a neoliberal ideology. I then analyzed a petition for writ of certiorari and respondent brief from each case to gain an understanding of neoliberal influences in the original court documents.
The Swing to the Right: An Update of Latin American Politics Th e current authoritarian turn in neoliberal capitalism is providing further evidence that the dominant economic system is inseparable from the state apparatus -and, in this particular moment, from processes of state corpo ratization.Currently, tendencies li...
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 article examines the relationship between concentration of political power and erosion of individual freedom through a critical reading of Friedrich Hayek, connected with democratic theory, constitutional law, and Inter-American human rights standards. A qualitative, theoretical-legal, and documentary approach is...
Background and Aims: This conceptual review article examines why accusations of Western double standards have become a durable frame in the contestation of the liberal international order. Existing international-relations scholarship has explained this contestation mainly through changes in material power, norm diffusi...
F. Verri· Interdisciplinary Academic a...· 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 stunning political upheavals witnessed across the western world over the past year have raised the question of whether the neoliberal economic system that has dominated since the 1980s is about to unravel.
During the 1930s, when liberalism last came under attack, two distinct ideologies offered hope to the disaffe...
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