Neoliberalism emerged partly as a critique of national sovereignty and democratic budgeting.

Evidence

I have argued in this chapter that neoliberalism was born in part as a critique of national sovereignty. To neoliberals, nations ­were shifting, provisional, without claims on this or that patch of earth. The po­liti­cal identifications produced by nations led to a disruption of the balance between the economic and the po­liti­cal spheres as participants in ­democracies recklessly turned government bud­gets into reservoirs of personal enrichment. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 399

Categorization

• XREF: Directly supports the reader’s framing of neoliberalism as a project to insulate markets from democracy — democracy’s budget politics is named as the disruption. — connects to: Neoliberals coined and repurposed consumer sovereignty to rival national sovereignty — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 401; Neoliberalism claims to liberate while actually eroding political sovereignty — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos: Neoliberalism’s…, 211; Early neoliberals sought to radically shrink national sovereignty in service of free trade. — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists: The End of Empire and the…, 440 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberals coined and repurposed consumer sovereignty to rival national sovereignty #expands (0.92) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 401
• Early neoliberals sought to radically shrink national sovereignty in service of free trade. #expands (0.85) — Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, 440
• Neoliberalism claims to liberate while actually eroding political sovereignty #complicates (0.75) — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 211
• Neoliberal market discipline was adopted to pacify unruly democratic publics #expands (0.75) — Shoshana Zuboff, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, 122