Changing the Common Sense: Are populist and anti-establishment movements shifting the UK economic policy paradigm?
Lead Research Organisation:
University of Sheffield
Department Name: Politics
Abstract
My research will ask whether new populist and anti-establishment movements represent a challenge to the dominant UK economic policy paradigm.
My proposed research therefore focusses on understanding the shape and significance of emerging political alternatives to neoliberalism in the UK. There is an emerging body of scholarship on how anti-establishment movements elsewhere (e.g. in Latin America) have challenged the neoliberal paradigm, but these ideas have not yet been forensically applied to emerging populist and anti-establishment movements in the UK.
I will explore whether these movements articulate a coherent new account of how the economy works and what should be done to improve it; and, if so, whether there is evidence of these accounts beginning to permeate the broader societal 'common sense' in a way that could shift the rules of the game.
My proposed research therefore focusses on understanding the shape and significance of emerging political alternatives to neoliberalism in the UK. There is an emerging body of scholarship on how anti-establishment movements elsewhere (e.g. in Latin America) have challenged the neoliberal paradigm, but these ideas have not yet been forensically applied to emerging populist and anti-establishment movements in the UK.
I will explore whether these movements articulate a coherent new account of how the economy works and what should be done to improve it; and, if so, whether there is evidence of these accounts beginning to permeate the broader societal 'common sense' in a way that could shift the rules of the game.
Organisations
People |
ORCID iD |
Craig Berry (Primary Supervisor) | |
Christine Berry (Student) |
Studentship Projects
Project Reference | Relationship | Related To | Start | End | Student Name |
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ES/P000746/1 | 30/09/2017 | 29/09/2027 | |||
1931630 | Studentship | ES/P000746/1 | 30/09/2017 | 29/09/2023 | Christine Berry |