This book, together with the complementary volume Religion in Consumer Society, focuses on religion, neoliberalism and consumer society; offering an overview of an emerging field of research in the study of contemporary religion. Outlining changes in both the political-instituti…
In France and West Germany, where tax structures were more regressive, industrial policy more pro-growth, and welfare states universal and even reverse-redistributive, neoliberalism could not be anchored in electoral dissatisfaction, and therefore it stalled. The attempt to redu…
In The Politics of Free Markets, a comparative-historical analysis of the development of neoliberal policies in these four countries, Monica Prasad argues that neoliberalism was made possible in the United States and Britain not because the Left in these countries was too weak, …
In this major critique of neoliberalism in schooling and education, the contributors to this volume identify the types, levers, extents and impacts of neoliberal policies globally on education workers' rights, conditions and lives; on social class, 'race' and gender and other fo…
Examining the impact of neoliberal globalization on education policy, equity, democracy, and union rights, this title highlights the role of private corporations in extracting profits from schools and education services and management.
"This pathbreaking analyses collected in this book, written as the globalization decade unfolded, grasp the radical nature of globalization in a way still unmatched by orthodox commentaries: not as a mere series of 'reforms' but as a worldwide transformation of all aspects of li…
What does federalism have to do with the political struggle between conservatives and progressives over economic policy? How do economic theories of fiscal federalism influence European, North American and global forms of governance? In answering these questions, this book provi…
