Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain /

Starting with penal populism, this text examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience thei...

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Main Author:	Koch, Insa Lee (Author)
Corporate Author:	Oxford University Press
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:	First edition.
Series:	Clarendon studies in criminology.
Subjects:	Marginality, Social > Great Britain. Great Britain > Social conditions. Great Britain > Economic conditions. Great Britain > Politics and government. Grande-Bretagne > Conditions sociales. Grande-Bretagne > Conditions économiques. Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement. Economic history Marginality, Social Politics and government Social conditions Great Britain Society & culture: general. Society. Electronic books.
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