Free Markets and the Decline of Democracy

John Weeks

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2018, vol. 50, issue 4, 637-648

Abstract: Well into the twenty-first century, it is difficult to find a major country in which democratic institutions are not under stress, in many cases under aggressive attack. In the United States, the government has fallen under the control of a profoundly antidemocratic regime. In Europe, long-standing authoritarian tendencies have enjoyed a quantum leap under the neoliberal austerity regime fostered by the German government with the cover of the European Commission. This paper discusses the source of this near universal twenty-first-century tendency to authoritarianism. JEL Classification: A13, B52

Keywords: political economics; neoliberalism; democracy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1177/0486613418772167

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