Even welfare-expanding legislation retains a neoliberal institutional form

Evidence

Jack Jackson notes that this is not an even or consistent process. Obamacare, he argues, was a significant challenge to neoliberalization. Jack Jackson, “Not Yet an End: Neoliberalism and the Jurisprudence of Obamacare,” unpublished paper presented at the 2013 Annual Meeting of the American Political Science Association. Certainly, Jackson has a point, but the neoliberal form of Obamacare as a national health plan can be lost on no one. There is also a question of whether it will survive. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 628

Categorization

• DEFINE: Marks the conceptual distinction between content (redistributive) and form (market-based) of policy.
• XREF: connects to: Neoliberal development framed egalitarian welfare norms as obstacles to be overcome — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 409; Neoliberalism funds repressive state functions at welfare’s expense; Neoliberals sought minimal welfare that avoided legitimizing the welfare state — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market: Human Rights…, 206 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberal development framed egalitarian welfare norms as obstacles to be overcome #expands (0.85) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 409
• Neoliberals sought minimal welfare that avoided legitimizing the welfare state #qualifies (0.80) — Jessica Whyte, The Morals of the Market, 206
• Neoliberalism funds repressive state functions at welfare’s expense #corroborates (0.75)
• Neoliberal deregulation replaced social protection with credit and indebtedness #expands (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 746