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No Nonsense: A History of the Dutch Neoliberal Turn

No Nonsense: A History of the Dutch Neoliberal TurnBy: Merijn Oudenampsen

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Product Code: 9781804294192

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Weight .310 kg
Dimensions 23.3 × 2 × 15.3 cm

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In the 1980s, Dutch politics underwent a neoliberal turn overseen by the Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers. It formed part of an interna­tional trend, famously spearheaded by Reagan and Thatcher. What was new, however, was the way Lubbers depoliticized his reforms and sold them to the public as 'no-nonsense' politics. When social democrats and trade unions came to embrace neoliberal reform in the mid-1990s, an elite consensus was forged. In this path-breaking study, Merijn Oudenampsen traces the long shadow these developments cast over Dutch politics. Neoliberal­ism helped nurture the right-wing populism of Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders and inspired the austerity policies of the right-wing liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte. A bleak political template was created for the world.

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