- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Editors’ preface
- Introduction The open-market society and its opponents: an overview
- Part One Alternative paradigms and perspectives: Editors’ overview
- One Modes of anti-neoliberalism: moralism, Marxism and 21st century socialism
- Two People, planet, power: toward a new social settlement
- Three Beyond neoliberalism, or life after capitalism? A red-green debate
- Four The democratic deficit: institutional democracy
- Part Two Reform within economic and governance restraints: pushing the boundaries: Editors’ overview
- Five The limits of neoliberalism? Austerity versus social policy in comparative perspective
- Six The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy?
- Seven Reform from within? Central banks and the reconfiguration of neoliberal monetary policy
- Eight The corporate cuckoo in the neoliberal nest: reconnecting civil society with big business
- Nine Avoiding ‘back to the future’ policies by reforming the ‘foundational economy’
- Part Three Economic and political democracy: restoring the market-civil society balance: Editors’ overview
- Ten Neoliberalism and social democracy
- Eleven Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy
- Twelve Turning the tide: a role for social movements
- Conclusion A Brexit from neoliberalism?
- Index
The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy?
The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy?
- Chapter:
- (p.117) Six The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy?
- Source:
- Alternatives to Neoliberalism
- Author(s):
Bryn Jones
Mike O’Donnell
- Publisher:
- Policy Press
The UK referendum result has thrown several of the assumptions of the neoliberal order into disarray. This chapter traces opposition to the EU back to its retreat from social regulation of its markets to a stricter neoliberal framework. It examines key features of the ‘Brexit’ vote in the referendum and the likely scenarios for an ‘independent’ UK. Contrary to some popular interpretations it argues that the vote does not express a widespread nationalist populism amongst the working classes. However, the outcome seems likely to favour a renewal of neoliberal trade and de-regulation outside the protective institutions of the EU.
Keywords: Brexit, European Union, populism, referendum, social regulation, working class
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- Title Pages
- Dedication
- List of figures, tables and boxes
- List of abbreviations
- Notes on contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- Editors’ preface
- Introduction The open-market society and its opponents: an overview
- Part One Alternative paradigms and perspectives: Editors’ overview
- One Modes of anti-neoliberalism: moralism, Marxism and 21st century socialism
- Two People, planet, power: toward a new social settlement
- Three Beyond neoliberalism, or life after capitalism? A red-green debate
- Four The democratic deficit: institutional democracy
- Part Two Reform within economic and governance restraints: pushing the boundaries: Editors’ overview
- Five The limits of neoliberalism? Austerity versus social policy in comparative perspective
- Six The European Union and the UK: neoliberalism, nationalist populism, or a cry for democracy?
- Seven Reform from within? Central banks and the reconfiguration of neoliberal monetary policy
- Eight The corporate cuckoo in the neoliberal nest: reconnecting civil society with big business
- Nine Avoiding ‘back to the future’ policies by reforming the ‘foundational economy’
- Part Three Economic and political democracy: restoring the market-civil society balance: Editors’ overview
- Ten Neoliberalism and social democracy
- Eleven Rethinking public ownership as economic democracy
- Twelve Turning the tide: a role for social movements
- Conclusion A Brexit from neoliberalism?
- Index
