Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: Declining legitimacy and the elevation of home affairs in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France

Ward, Joseph; Da Costa Vieira, Thomas

doi:10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103942

Geoforum

2024

DOI: 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103942

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Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: Declining legitimacy and the elevation of home affairs in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France

Joseph Ward,

Thomas Da Costa Vieira

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Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization

Critch,

Kerr,

Kettell

2024

Parliamentary Affairs

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This article reconsiders the longer-term legacy of David Cameron’s attempts to ‘modernize’ the Conservative Party. In doing so, we aim to make three main contributions to existing scholarship. Firstly, whilst Cameron’s modernization project is judged to have been a failure by most scholars, we show that Conservative leaders post-Cameron have continued a process of party adaptation that exhibits striking continuities with many of its key elements. Secondly, whilst these developments have co-existed alongside a ratcheting up of seemingly ‘anti-modernizing’ populist and nationalist rhetoric, we contend that such moves show important continuities with Cameron’s own attempts to balance modernization with gestures towards Thatcherite politics. Thirdly, we offer a re-conceptualization of Conservative Party modernization as a fluid and contingent aspect of Conservative Party statecraft marked by an oscillation between, and sometimes a fusing of, modernizing rhetoric with more traditional Tory appeals.

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Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization

Critch,

Kerr,

Kettell

2024

Parliamentary Affairs

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Revisiting the theoretical foundations of depoliticisation: A Gramscian state theory approach for an era of crisis

Wamsley

2024

The British Journal of Politics and International Relations

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Despite voluminous research on depoliticisation, there is relatively little analysis of the theoretical perspectives underpinning the literature. Recently, depoliticisation has been reconceptualised as a contingent process examined at increasingly granular levels. While this contextualist approach has underscored the political character of depoliticisation, it has often neglected underlying structural and macro-political context. This article offers three contributions to depoliticisation literature. First, it reviews recent approaches, arguing that contextualist understandings of depoliticisation have narrowed the analytical focus of the literature. Second, it provides a comparison of two of the main theoretical frameworks underpinning depoliticisation literature, Open Marxism and Constructivist Institutionalism. It examines how their theories of the state, politics, and crisis have led to highly distinct understandings of depoliticisation and evaluates the insights and limitations of each approach. Third, the article proposes a Gramscian state theory approach to provide a macro-political perspective to understand the instabilities unfolding in capitalist democracies today.

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Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: Declining legitimacy and the elevation of home affairs in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France

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References 57 publications

Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization

Slow burn: Re-examining the legacy of Conservative Party modernization

Revisiting the theoretical foundations of depoliticisation: A Gramscian state theory approach for an era of crisis

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