Neoliberalism increased bureaucratic tasks despite promising to cut red tape.

Evidence

One of the things I try to point out in Capitalist Realism is the strange anomaly here: one of the things we were sold about neoliberalism was that it liberated us from bureaucracy, that it was only old Stalinists and crusty social democrats who obsess with bureaucracy. Neoliberalism was supposed to cut away the red tape. So why is it that teachers are required to perform more bureaucratic tasks than they ever were in the heyday of social democracy? — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1656

Categorization

• XREF: Builds on and extends the documented paradox that deregulation rhetoric coincides with intensified audit and paperwork regimes. — connects to: Bureaucracy has proliferated under neoliberal capitalism rather than vanishing with it — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 43; Neoliberalism expanded bureaucracy rather than eliminating it — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1581; Neoliberal marketisation imposed its own new bureaucracy — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk: The Collected and Unpublished…, 1724 (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Neoliberalism expanded bureaucracy rather than eliminating it #corroborates (0.95) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1581
• Neoliberal marketisation imposed its own new bureaucracy #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 1724
• Neoliberalism seeks to strengthen rather than shrink the state #corroborates (0.82) — Philip Mirowski & Dieter Plehwe (eds.), The Road from Mont Pèlerin, 2128
• Neoliberalism seeks to capture and reconstruct the strong state, not shrink it #expands (0.80) — Philip Mirowski, Never Let a Serious Crisis Go to Waste, 117
• Neoliberalism decentralized bureaucracy instead of abolishing it #qualifies (0.75) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 43
• Neoliberalism strengthens repressive state apparatuses rather than shrinking government #complicates (0.72) — David Theo Goldberg, The Threat of Race, 1748