Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People's Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain
Neoliberalism and the Unfolding Patterns of Young People's Political Engagement and Political Participation in Contemporary Britain
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10.3390/soc7040033
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发表时间：
2017-12-01
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2.1
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Henn, Matt
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作者：
Hart, James;Henn, Matt
最近的趋势表明，英国的年轻人越来越拒绝选举政治。然而，有证据表明，英国年轻人并非不关心政治，而是越来越怀疑选举政治是否有能力为他们的生活做出有意义的贡献。然而，为什么年轻人正在采取新的政治行为和价值观，仍然是一个争论点。一些作者认为，新自由主义影响了这些新的政治参与模式。本文将推进对新自由主义的批判，关注新自由主义的三个不同方面，并展示它们如何联合收割机降低年轻人对政治参与的期望以及他们对政治行为者合法性的看法。我们结合联合收割机的概念和材料的批评，以证明如何年轻人的政治参与已被新自由主义的限制。新自由主义通过其对集体民主的批评，通过其促成的政治实践的随后转变，以及通过其塑造政府货币政策而导致的经济边缘化，影响了青年的政治参与。这一方法将在概念上基于新自由主义的定义，新自由主义既承认其重点是减少对经济的干预，也承认其改变社会以构建市场关系和激励代理人之间竞争的生产能力。从这个定义，我们发展的论点，新自由主义的民主批评，随后的变化，回应这些批评和新自由主义所造成的社会经济条件的转变，已经合并到负面影响年轻人的选举参与。
Recent trends suggest that young people in Britain are increasingly rejecting electoral politics. However, evidence suggests that British youth are not apolitical, but are becoming ever more sceptical of the ability of electoral politics to make a meaningful contribution to their lives. Why young people are adopting new political behaviour and values, however, is still a point of contention. Some authors have suggested that neoliberalism has influenced these new patterns of political engagement. This article will advance this critique of neoliberalism, giving attention to three different facets of neoliberalism and demonstrate how they combine to reduce young people's expectations of political participation and their perceptions of the legitimacy of political actors. We combine ideational and material critiques to demonstrate how young people's political engagement has been restricted by neoliberalism. Neoliberalism has influenced youth political participation through its critiques of collective democracy, by the subsequent transformations in political practice that it has contributed to, and through the economic marginalisation that has resulted from its shaping of governments' monetary policy. This approach will be conceptually predicated on a definition of neoliberalism which acknowledges both its focus on reducing interventions in the economy, and also its productive capacity to modify society to construct market relations and galvanise competition amongst agents. From this definition, we develop the argument that neoliberal critiques of democracy, the subsequent changes in political practices which respond to these criticisms and the transformation in socioeconomic conditions caused by neoliberalism have coalesced to negatively influence young people's electoral participation.