Authoritarian Neoliberalism

Ian Bruff is Lecturer in European Politics at the University of Manchester, UK. He has published on capitalist diversity, European capitalisms, neoliberalism and social theory. He is currently researching the foundations of neoliberal thought and is the Managing Editor of the Transforming Capitalism book series.

Authoritarian Neoliberalism explores how neoliberal forms of managing capitalism are challenging democratic governance at local, national and international levels.

Preface Ian Bruff and Cemal Burak Tansel 1. Authoritarian neoliberalism: trajectories of knowledge production and praxis Ian Bruff and Cemal Burak Tansel 2. Framing the neoliberal canon: resisting the market myth via literary enquiry Ian Bruff and Kathryn Starnes 3. Managerial power in the German model: the case of Bertelsmann and the antecedents of neoliberalism Mareike Beck and Julian Germann 4. Authoritarian neoliberalism and capitalist transformation in Africa: all pain, no gain Graham Harrison 5. Neoliberal co-optation and authoritarian renewal: social entrepreneurship networks in Jordan and Morocco Nadine Kreitmeyr 6. Authoritarian neoliberal rescaling in Latin America: urban in/security and austerity in Oaxaca Alke Jenss 7. Reproducing authoritarian neoliberalism in Turkey: urban governance and state restructuring in the shadow of executive centralization Cemal Burak Tansel 8. Reconfiguring the state: executive powers, emergency legislation, and neoliberalization in Italy Adriano Cozzolino 9. The new EU industrial policy: authoritarian neoliberal structural adjustment and the case for alternatives Angela Wigger