French neoliberalism fragmented after 1945 for lack of a coordinating institution

Evidence

This opposition reflected a more general phenomenon. At the end of the 1950s, French neoliberals were not united. Whereas the creation of the Centre international d’études pour la renovation du libéralisme in the 1930s helped bring together under the neoliberal label an array of individuals with clashing economic conceptions, no institution played a comparable role after 1945. Liberal organizations multiplied without coordinating their action or their proposals. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 294

Categorization

• XREF: Contrasts with the German Aktionsgemeinschaft Soziale Marktwirtschaft network described later in the paragraph — a useful cross-country institutional comparison for the neoliberal origins story. — connects to: German ordoliberals forged a united coalition that France’s lacked — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 153; The French neoliberal network collapsed during World War II as its members scattered politically. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 284; Political defeat in 1944 paradoxically cleared ground for the later rebirth of French liberalism. — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 285 (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin: The Making…, 294

Broader Connections

• French neoliberalism split into administrative and radical faces that mutually supported each other #expands (0.85) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 301
• Religious and political heterogeneity prevented French neoliberals from building a unified network #corroborates (0.80) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 294
• Postwar pillarized democracies gave separate milieus their own institutions #qualifies (0.75) — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 115
• Neoliberalism’s core concepts formed in the 1930s through networked institutions #qualifies (0.72) — Dieter Plehwe, Quinn Slobodian & Philip Mirowski (eds.), Nine Lives of Neoliberalism, 352