%0 Journal Article
%T Free Markets and the Decline of Democracy
%A John Weeks
%J Review of Radical Political Economics
%@ 1552-8502
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0486613418772167
%X Well into the twenty-first century, it is difficult to find a major country in which democratic institutions are not under stress, in many cases under aggressive attack. In the United States, the government has fallen under the control of a profoundly antidemocratic regime. In Europe, long-standing authoritarian tendencies have enjoyed a quantum leap under the neoliberal austerity regime fostered by the German government with the cover of the European Commission. This paper discusses the source of this near universal twenty-first-century tendency to authoritarianism. JEL Classification: A13, B5
%K political economics
%K neoliberalism
%K democracy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0486613418772167