Overview
- Examines the rise of exclusionary neoliberalism by assessing how populist actors impact economic policy change
- Draws on evidence from Austria to assess how neoliberalism emerged and was implemented as a far-right political project
- Evaluates how domestic politics respond to international market integration through exclusionary nationalist ideas
Part of the book series: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy (SPERIRP)
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This book examines the rise of exclusionary neoliberalism by assessing how far-right populist actors impact economic policy change. Drawing on the case of the Austrian Freedom Party, the book illustrates how neoliberalism emerged as a far-right political project in Austria. Tracing the Freedom Party´s ideational history, the book describes the making of the exclusionary neoliberal state through its establishment in the 1980s, its implementation in the early 2000s and how exclusionary neoliberalism was sustained after the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. The book thereby provides important insights on how domestic politics respond to challenges imposed by globalization and international market integration, and explains the less obvious ways in which exclusionary nationalist ideas can be deeply entangled with neoliberalism. The book will appeal to all those interested in far-right populism and its interrelation with political economy.
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“Ausserladscheider challenges one entrenched dichotomy only to shatter another … Her pathbreaking book invites us to recognize that rather than anti-elitist rebels railing against neoliberalism, Austria’s far-right populists represent a national-populist, exclusionary mutation of neoliberalism—an insight that resonates widely across the democratic world. This exemplary analysis should be on the reading list of everyone working on right-wing populism.” (Gabor Scheiring, Assistant Professor of Comparative Politics, Georgetown University Qatar)
“Austria’s Freedom Party has been an indicator species of mutant neoliberalism for the last seven decades. Valentina Ausserladscheider offers us a much-needed overview of the party’s development, demolishing misleading scholarly bromides along the way and showing how, in Austria, neoliberalism appeared first as a project of the far right.” (Quinn Slobodian, Professor of International History, Boston University)
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Valentina Ausserladscheider is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Department of Economic Sociology, University of Vienna, Austria. Her research lies at the intersection between international political economy and economic sociology, and focuses on institutional change, discourse, ideas, and the political constitution of the economy.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Far-Right Populism and the Making of the Exclusionary Neoliberal State
Authors: Valentina Ausserladscheider
Series Title: Building a Sustainable Political Economy: SPERI Research & Policy
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-64467-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2024
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-64466-5Published: 25 August 2024
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-64469-6Published: 25 August 2025
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-64467-2Published: 24 August 2024
Series ISSN: 2946-3394
Series E-ISSN: 2946-3408
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 104
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Policy, International Relations, Political Sociology