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TY - JOUR
T1 - The organic crisis of the British state
T2 - putting Brexit in its place
AU - Jessop, Bob
N1 - This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Globalizations on 21/09/2016, available online: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/14747731.2016.1228783 Commissioned, peer-reviewed article for special issue of Globalizations. A revised version, bringing the argument up to date until 1 December 2016, is translated into German for an on-line publication, links (reference to follow)
PY - 2017/1/1
Y1 - 2017/1/1
N2 - The Brexit vote was a singular event that is one symptom of a continuing organic crisis of the British state and society and a stimulus for further struggles over the future of the United Kingdom and its place in Europe and the wider world. This crisis previously enabled the rise of Thatcherism as a neoliberal and neoconservative project (with New Labour as its left wing) with an authoritarian populist appeal and authoritarian statist tendencies that persisted under the Conservative?Liberal Democrat coalition (2010?2015). The 2015 election of a Conservative Government, which aimed to revive the Thatcherite project and entrench austerity, was the immediate context for the tragi-comedy of errors played out in the referendum. The ensuing politics and policy issues could promote the disintegration of the UK and, perhaps, the EU without delivering greater political sovereignty or a more secure and non-balkanized place for British economic space in the world market.
AB - The Brexit vote was a singular event that is one symptom of a continuing organic crisis of the British state and society and a stimulus for further struggles over the future of the United Kingdom and its place in Europe and the wider world. This crisis previously enabled the rise of Thatcherism as a neoliberal and neoconservative project (with New Labour as its left wing) with an authoritarian populist appeal and authoritarian statist tendencies that persisted under the Conservative?Liberal Democrat coalition (2010?2015). The 2015 election of a Conservative Government, which aimed to revive the Thatcherite project and entrench austerity, was the immediate context for the tragi-comedy of errors played out in the referendum. The ensuing politics and policy issues could promote the disintegration of the UK and, perhaps, the EU without delivering greater political sovereignty or a more secure and non-balkanized place for British economic space in the world market.
KW - Brexit
KW - conjunctural analysis
KW - economic crisis
KW - neoliberalism
KW - organic crisis
KW - political crisis
U2 - 10.1080/14747731.2016.1228783
DO - 10.1080/14747731.2016.1228783
M3 - Journal article
VL - 14
SP - 133
EP - 141
JO - Globalizations
JF - Globalizations
SN - 1474-7731
IS - 1
ER -