Undoing The Demos by Wendy Brown

Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution

A critical analysis arguing that neoliberalism reconceives citizens as market actors and restructures political institutions, norms, and language around economic calculus, thereby hollowing out democratic life; it shows how market rationality, metrics, privatization, and managerial practices depoliticize public goods, erode political equality and civic capacities, and remake sovereignty and freedom into calculable assets, producing a form of governance that undermines the conditions for democratic self-rule.

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