Escaping Dystopia : Rebuilding a Public Domain /
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| Language: | English |
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Bristol :
Bristol University Press,
2022.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of Figures and Tables
- List of Abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- 1. Introduction
- Why 'dystopia'?
- 2. Trapped in Dystopia?
- Crises of capitalism and neoliberalism
- The economic fallout from the pandemic
- Climate capitalism
- Break-up? The international order
- Coercion at home in the surveillance state
- Conclusions
- 3. The Three Ds: Disaffection, Disarray, Democracy
- Neoliberal distrust of democratic procedures andits consequences
- Democratic implications
- 4. Breaking the Mould through Anti-System Politics?
- Anti-system parties and movements
- Impact on established system parties and politics
- The concerns of anti-system politics
- The culturalist diversion
- More democracy or less inside the nation-state?
- Explaining the rise of anti-system politics
- Conclusions
- 5. What Is to Be Done? Alternative Strategies
- Restoring the pre-crisis 'normal'
- Saving the system: modest but significant reforms
- Transforming the system: radical options
- Conclusions
- 6. Restoring the Pre-Crisis Neoliberal 'Normal'
- Getting fiscal and monetary policy right
- Reading the tea leaves: 2021 budgets and plans
- Conclusions
- 7. Saving the System by Building Back Better? Liberal Reform
- Liberal reform
- Building back better: towards a digital and agreen future
- Building back better: inclusiveness
- Building back better? The limits of liberal reform
- Democratic and global context
- What is the relative role of the private sector?
- How is all this to be paid for?
- Summing up: the limits of liberal reform
- 8. Radical Transformation
- Controlling capital, building the public domain
- Radical transformation of economic andsocial policy
- Radical transformation of climate andenvironmental policy
- Conclusions
- 9. Obstacles to Progress
- The empowerment of capital and finance
- The disempowerment of labour
- Ideological capitulation of the former left
- Global insulation and institutional and democraticdeficits: the problem of scale
- Conclusions
- 10. How Is It to Be Done? Democratic Process and Building the Public Domain
- Popular sovereignty
- More public domain, more state andmore democracy
- 'More nation state ... more autonomy'
- Towards a new international order
- Military blocs
- Putting radical transformation in motion
- 11. Escaping Dystopia
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover