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2015 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
The Primacy of the Economic and the Degradation of Politics
verfasst von : Gargi Bhattacharyya
Erschienen in: Crisis, Austerity, and Everyday Life
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
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This chapter reviews the circumstances that have given rise to the primacy of economistic thinking and rhetoric in electoral politics. This chapter argues that this focus on economic management, of a particular sort, above all other considerations, has led to a degradation of mainstream political life. Together these two trends, towards instrumental economism and away from meaningful political participation, make space for the larger diminishment of expectations that is an outcome of the project of austerity. This chapter offers an account of the impact of the pursuit of economism on the democratic cultures of our time.