The state becomes responsible for growth it cannot control or offset.

Evidence

The state must support the economy, organizing its conditions and facilitating its growth, and is thereby made responsible for the economy without being able to predict, control, or offset its effects. Hence, far more than a campaign mantra, “It’s the economy, stupid!” defines political life in the neoliberal state. — Wendy Brown, Undoing the Demos, 124

Categorization

• XREF: Responsibility-without-control echoes the earlier figure of the self-governing subject held accountable for outcomes beyond their power. — connects to: State expansion paradoxically reduces effective control and increases reliance on violence — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1726; States can destroy trust even when they cannot create it — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1699; Corporate and state sectors grow while independent and household production stagnate — Samuel Bowles and Herbert Gintis, Schooling in Capitalist America:…, 660

Broader Connections

• State expansion paradoxically reduces effective control and increases reliance on violence #expands (0.90) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1726
• States can destroy trust even when they cannot create it #expands (0.72) — Diego Gambetta, Trust - Making and Breaking Cooperative…, 1699