Emergence of the State and Liberalism Flashcards
What is the state?
The state is an independent polity, a political unit with an independent legislation. Comprised of different actors and institutions with statutory duties which occupy different roles
What other buildings are statutory?
Prisons, Schools, NHS etc.
What is the role of the state?
Protection from coercion, theft, abuse foreign aggression and Governance of health, education, economy, social care. But also more widespread.. Gov try to nudge us to become good citizens.
Focault- Governmentality= the ‘art of government’ - conduct of individuals.
Focaults work on Governmentality.
Governmentality can be understood as the way governments try to produce the citizen best suited to fulfil those governments’ policies.
How does the state govern?
Laws National Curriculum Legislation Welfare State The Media Police Surveillance Taxes Health promotion
What is Neoliberalism
has informed much of the political landscape from mid 1970s to present day in the UK and other Western nations. It emerged from Classical Liberalism- political doctrine that seeks to protect and enhance the freedom of the individual
Name 6 aspects of Neoliberalism
- Deregulation
- Internationalism
- Privatisation
- Free trade
- Lower taxes
- Less protectionism.
what does Laissez- faire mean?
Leave it alone, we will do it ourselves.
What 3 steps did we emerge from earlier forms of governemnt to neo-liberalism?
- Classic liberalism first emerged as a reaction to/rejection of absolute monarchy
- Thomas Hobbes 1651 Levithan. The ‘Social Contract’. The free men contract (land owning) to vote.
- The Bill of Rights (1689) laid down limits on the powers of the monarch and sets out the rights of Parliament.
Foundations of Social Justice
Left- Left wing social democratic theory formed by Marxist
Right- is conservative and neo-liberalism
