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Rethinking the New Politics: Political Neoliberalism and the European Center-Left

Stephanie L. Mudge
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This paper seeks to understand the new political landscape that emerged in the transatlantic world since the 1970s. The central questions are the extent to which a neoliberal politics took hold within the European center-left, and why. I focus on Europe because neoliberalism's extension into non-Anglo western countries is a uniquely surprising postwar development. Neoliberalism marks the rebirth of a market-centric institutional project that is as much (if not more) intellectual as political: anchored in the United States and in Anglo Saxon intellectual traditions more generally, and driven by specific historical actors (economists and economic elites). Successful institutional projects are marked by the extent to which they become self-perpetuating, reproducing themselves in various forms across time and place without the necessity of intentional or purposive--least of all rational--action. Taking neoliberalism to be a successful institutional project that emerged out of the crisis period starting in the 1970s, the present analysis understands political neoliberalism as a broad institutional phenomenon expressed in qualitatively different ways across political fields and national contexts, shaping the worldviews of political elites who should not be understood as--and indeed, would not understand themselves to be--'neoliberals' in a voluntaristic sense. In other words, Europe's center-left political elites may be neoliberalized insofar as a market- centric political commonsense organizes their understandings of the world, but this does not make them neoliberals.

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Stephanie L. Mudge. Rethinking the New Politics: Political Neoliberalism and the European Center-Left. International Sociological Association's Research Committee for Poverty, Social Welfare and Social Policy (RC19), Aug 2007, Florence, Italy. ⟨hal-00817773⟩
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