TY - JOUR
T1 - Freedom from Democracy
T2 - Progressive Populism and the Rise of Global Corporate Power
AU - WALSH, Mary
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - This article examines what McKnight (2018) refers to as “progressive populism” and argues that the rise of progressive populism in contemporary western democratic societies is directly related to the emergence of neoliberal governance regimes and the rise of global corporate power. Utilizing insights from both scholarly literature and popular commentary it outlines the rising counter assault by global corporations and governments since the 1960s to reserve and impede the increase of democratic rights for previously marginalized sections of many western democratic societies. It is crucial not to dismiss the power of global corporations and the rise of neoliberalism at the expense of the collective security of societies as just another form of elitism attacked by ordinary people. Corporations want freedom from democracy by usurping capitalist economic systems. They represent a disfiguration of representative democratic principals that culminates in paradoxes of liberty that progressive populists are contesting.
AB - This article examines what McKnight (2018) refers to as “progressive populism” and argues that the rise of progressive populism in contemporary western democratic societies is directly related to the emergence of neoliberal governance regimes and the rise of global corporate power. Utilizing insights from both scholarly literature and popular commentary it outlines the rising counter assault by global corporations and governments since the 1960s to reserve and impede the increase of democratic rights for previously marginalized sections of many western democratic societies. It is crucial not to dismiss the power of global corporations and the rise of neoliberalism at the expense of the collective security of societies as just another form of elitism attacked by ordinary people. Corporations want freedom from democracy by usurping capitalist economic systems. They represent a disfiguration of representative democratic principals that culminates in paradoxes of liberty that progressive populists are contesting.
KW - Economic liberty
KW - Global corporate power
KW - Inequality
KW - Neoliberalism
KW - Progressive populism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85062367732&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.mendeley.com/research/freedom-democracy-1
U2 - 10.3167/dt.2018.050204
DO - 10.3167/dt.2018.050204
M3 - Article
SN - 2332-8894
VL - 5
SP - 37
EP - 55
JO - Democratic Theory
JF - Democratic Theory
IS - 2
ER -