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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Market Values and Youth Political Engagement in the UK: Towards an Agenda for Exploring the Psychological Impacts of Neo-Liberalism
Beteiligte:
Allsop, Bradley;
Briggs, Jacqueline;
Kisby, Ben
Erschienen:
MDPI AG, 2018
Erschienen in:
Societies, 8 (2018) 4, Seite 95
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.3390/soc8040095
ISSN:
2075-4698
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This article seeks to develop a preliminary analysis of how neo-liberal thought and policies have impacted on youth political engagement in the UK, specifically by attempting to understand how macro-economic and other public policies can influence the individual psychology of citizens and their subsequent behaviour. The article sets out a clear definition and explanation of neo-liberalism and summarises six key neo-liberal impacts particularly pertinent to political engagement: marketisation and the tension this brings with democratic norms; responsibilisation narratives; increased inequality; the changing character of the state through privatisation and deregulation; the preference among policy-makers for ‘expert rule’; and repression of labour. It argues that the main psychological effects that result, and which underpin and define the personal experience of neo-liberal policy, are declines in political efficacy and increases in individualism, the ramifications of which for political engagement are discussed.