Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79
This article investigates the emergence of neo-liberalism in Britain and its intellectual relationship with each of the three main British political ideologies. The article distinguishes between different currents of neo-liberalism that have been absorbed into British political thought, and shows th...
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| description | This article investigates the emergence of neo-liberalism in Britain and its intellectual relationship with each of the three main British political ideologies. The article distinguishes between different currents of neo-liberalism that have been absorbed into British political thought, and shows that this process to some extent pre-dated the electoral success of Thatcherism in the 1980s. The article further suggests that labelling recent British political discourse as unvarnished ‘neo-liberalism’, while at times analytically useful, simplifies a more complicated picture, in which distinctively neo-liberal ideas have been blended in different ways into the ideologies of British Liberalism, Conservatism and even Labour socialism. The article therefore turns the spotlight on a more obscure aspect of the making of British neo-liberalism by exploring how politicians and intellectuals of varying partisan stripes generated policy discourses that presented neo-liberal ideas as an authentic expression of their own ideological traditions. Perhaps the most surprising finding of this article, then, is that neo-liberalism, although frequently characterised as rigid and dogmatic, has in fact proved itself to be a flexible and adaptable body of ideas, capable of colonising territory right across the political spectrum. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0e83c690-2d8d-418a-9c26-1036bae99b3f2022-03-26T09:46:20ZCurrents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79Journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0e83c690-2d8d-418a-9c26-1036bae99b3fSymplectic Elements at OxfordOxford University Press2016Jackson, BThis article investigates the emergence of neo-liberalism in Britain and its intellectual relationship with each of the three main British political ideologies. The article distinguishes between different currents of neo-liberalism that have been absorbed into British political thought, and shows that this process to some extent pre-dated the electoral success of Thatcherism in the 1980s. The article further suggests that labelling recent British political discourse as unvarnished ‘neo-liberalism’, while at times analytically useful, simplifies a more complicated picture, in which distinctively neo-liberal ideas have been blended in different ways into the ideologies of British Liberalism, Conservatism and even Labour socialism. The article therefore turns the spotlight on a more obscure aspect of the making of British neo-liberalism by exploring how politicians and intellectuals of varying partisan stripes generated policy discourses that presented neo-liberal ideas as an authentic expression of their own ideological traditions. Perhaps the most surprising finding of this article, then, is that neo-liberalism, although frequently characterised as rigid and dogmatic, has in fact proved itself to be a flexible and adaptable body of ideas, capable of colonising territory right across the political spectrum. |
| spellingShingle | Jackson, B Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79 |
| title | Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79 |
| title_full | Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79 |
| title_fullStr | Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79 |
| title_full_unstemmed | Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79 |
| title_short | Currents of neo-liberalism: British political ideologies and the New Right, c. 1955-79 |
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