"Dedemocratizing citizenship: how neoliberalism used market justice to move from welfare queening to authoritarianism in 25 short years" (original) (raw)

Twenty-five years ago the new citizenship studies rightly predictedthe egregious inegalitarian effects of neoliberalism’s dismantling ofthe social welfare state, but misrecognised the cause as a retreat ofthe state and the return of unfettered market forces. That continu-ing misrecognition obscures the roots of today’s surging author-itarianism and the dedemocratization of citizenship. The attack onsocial citizenship was instead a battle over control of the predis-tributive powers that engineer the market economy. Because socialcitizenship is not merely an effect of democracy but also one of itsconditions, neoliberalism weaponized the moral economy of mar-ket justice and the mechanisms of dedemocratization againstexpanded social rights to give cover to its now increasingly success-ful war against democratic citizenship.

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