Market-Driven Politics: Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest

摘要: "...[P]olitics everywhere are now market-driven. It is not just that governments can no longer 'manage' their national economies; to survive in office they must increasingly politics such a way as adapt them the pressures of transnational market forces." Market-driven Politics an empirical examination extent which and policy conditioned, or even determined, by global economic forces. multi-level study moves between analysis those forces, through politics, changes occurring week two fields public life both fundamentally important familiar everyone - television broadcasting healthcare. The focus Britain, but arguments apply many other contexts. Public services like health care play role, because affect legitimacy government day; market-driven domains become political flashpoints also targets for capital. Colin leys agues lucidly we witnessing fundamental shift relationship economics. His original key processes commodification services, conversion public-service workforces into employees motivated general profit, role state absorbing risk critically important, longer-term defence democracy collective values on it depends.