%0 Journal Article
%T Authoritarian Neoliberalism, the Occupy Movements, and IPE
%A Ian Bruff
%J Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies (JCGS)
%D 2012
%I Journal of Critical Globalisation Studies
%X In the absence of any kind of hegemonic aura, neoliberal practices have proved increasingly unable to garner the consent, or even the reluctant acquiescence, necessary for more ¡®normal¡¯ modes of governance. Of particular importance in the post-2007 crisis has been the growing frequency with which constitutional and legal changes, in the name of economic ¡®necessity¡¯, are seeking to reshape the purpose of the state and associated institutions. This attempted reconfiguration is three-fold: (1) the more immediate appeal to material circumstances as a reason for the state being unable, despite ¡®the best will in the world¡¯, to reverse processes such as greater socioeconomic inequality and dislocation;(2) the deeper and longer-term recalibration of what kind of activity is feasible and appropriate for ¡®non-market¡¯ institutions to engage in, diminishing expectations in the process; and (3) the reconceptualisation of the state as increasingly non-democratic through its subordination to constitutional and legal rules that are ¡®necessary¡¯ for prosperity to be achieved.
%K Neoliberalism
%K International Political Economy
%K Occupy Movements
%U http://www.criticalglobalisation.com/issue5/114_116_AUTHORITARIAN_NEOLIBERALISM_JCGS5.pdf