British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism: Parallel Trajectories

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Gerald Sussman (Portland State University, USA)

British and American Electoral Politics in the Age of Neoliberalism

Parallel Trajectories

Gerald Sussman (Portland State University, USA)

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Routledge
05 September 2024

Elections & referenda; Political parties; Political economy

Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics

This book employs a political economic approach in exploring the underlying neoliberal foundations of politics and electioneering in both the United States and the United Kingdom that have widened the divide among voters and, over time, led to a deep distrust of state institutions, including electoral politics and system of political representation.

Covering the period of 1980 to the present, the book provides analysis of how neoliberalism applies to the electoral sphere and draws the connections between the larger forces behind the globalising political economy and the trajectory of the corporate state and the many intersections of US and UK electoral politics – with lessons for other wealthy states that follow in similar pathways. As such, it helps explain a phenomenal parallel pattern of major political upheavals and social dislocations within these two countries. Finally, it reveals through numerous social indicators that the two leading neoliberal political economic systems are producing depressing results for large sections of their citizenry and a threat to social democracy, as the concentration of wealth and well-being is largely captured by a minority class of empowered individuals.

This book will be of key interest to scholars and students of electoral politics, political parties, political behaviour, British politics, U.S. politics and more broadly to readers interested in political economy and comparative politics.

By: Gerald Sussman (Portland State University USA)
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 630g
ISBN: 9781032590226
ISBN 10: 103259022X
Series: Routledge Research in Comparative Politics
Pages: 244
Publication Date: 05 September 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Primary
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

1. Introduction: The Neoliberal Wave 2. The Neoliberal Transformation of Politics 3. The Construction of the New Voter 4. Comparative Electoral Politics: The Neoliberal Institutional Matrix 5. Challenges to the Status Quo, 2016-2022 6. Conclusion: Neoliberal Politics and the Future of Transatlantic Democracy

Gerald Sussman is Professor of Urban Studies, International Political Economy, and Comparative Politics at Portland State University, USA.