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The Neoliberal Educational Agenda and the Legitimation Crisis: Old and new state strategies
- Source :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education. 24:159-175
- Publication Year :
- 2003
- Publisher :
- Informa UK Limited, 2003.
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Abstract
- In the context of globalisation and hegemonic neoliberalism, the state's ability to legitimate the economic system and its own policies cannot be assumed as a positive automatic effect. The economic and political conditions that once framed state action have changed, and it is reasonable to think that the emergence of a new accumulation regime implies also a shift in the traditional strategies used by the nation-state to legitimate its policy-making. This paper reviews how the neoliberal educational agenda develops a new political rationality that changes the traditional forms in which the state has managed its legitimation crisis. In addition, the paper argues that context-based factors, nationally specific, show that this political rationality may not be uniformly applied among different nation-states. The case of semiperipheral countries provides some evidence on the necessary combination of old and new strategies developed by the state to legitimate a neoliberal agenda.
Details
- ISSN :
- 14653346 and 01425692
- Volume :
- 24
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- British Journal of Sociology of Education
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........b15470f86801b7743d15148e597c4175