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Personalizing the state : the anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain / Insa Lee Koch.

By: Material type: TextSeries: Clarendon studies in criminology | Oxford scholarship onlinePublisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780191845437
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version :: No titleDDC classification:
  • 305.560941 23
LOC classification:
  • HN400.M26
Online resources: Starting with penal populism, this text examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.
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This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Starting with penal populism, this text examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state.

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