Neoliberalism and neo-authoritarianism
Abstract
With the crisis that broke out in the financial market in 2008 many social scientists diagnosed a growing "discontent in globalization" (Stiglitz, 2007). This discontent brings with it a series of very different phenomena: the resurgence of nationalism, the breaking off of institutionalized solidarity pacts, the struggle over the legitimacy of the welfare state, the growing influence of racist public discourses and political parties, the political mobilization of xenophobia, a new wave of criticism of social inequalities, as well as new demands for social protection that may confront the most damaging effects of unregulated capitalism. The hypothesis that I would like to defend in this paper states that, in the context of this discontent with globalization, new forms of social authoritarianism have been consolidated, constituting a specific constellation of phenomena, which need to be investigated in their particularity.
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