Economizing the principle of popular rule can finally kill democracy.

Evidence

But if democracy stands for the idea that the people, rather than something else, will decide the fundamentals and coordinates of their common existence, economization of this principle is what can finally kill it. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 412

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal economic rationality is extinguishing the domains through which democracy materializes.; Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 398; Economization displaces democratic self-rule and its supporting institutions. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 15

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal economic rationality is extinguishing the domains through which democracy materializes. #corroborates (0.85)
• Economization displaces democratic self-rule and its supporting institutions. #corroborates (0.85) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 15
• Neoliberal rationality reduces the very desire for democracy #expands (0.80) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 398