https://politicalresearch.org/ The latest research related to neoliberalism en https://politicalresearch.org/2025/10/14/how-far-right-capitalizes-neoliberal-ideas-and-race-science What is behind the contemporary Far Right’s recent ascent? This deceptively simple question animates historian Quinn Slobodian’s latest book, completing a trilogy in his intellectual history of neoliberalism. The first book, Globalists, examined how global neoliberal institutions were designed to… Tue, 14 Oct 2025 12:00:00 EDT Kitana Ananda 875b0a54-dda4-4ec4-b7df-72069925282e https://politicalresearch.org/2025/05/15/pro-family-politics An excerpt from The Radical Mind: The Origins of Right-Wing Catholic and Protestant Coalition Building that explores how The Family Policy Advisory Board moved forward Christian organizing for “traditional” families in the 80s. Thu, 15 May 2025 03:02:32 EDT Chelsea Ebin 89ae7f14-4067-4dbb-b074-6978b7d8021c https://politicalresearch.org/2025/04/16/exposing-and-resisting-coordinated-attacks-higher-education Isaac Kamola discusses the findings from his report Manufacturing Backlash: Right-Wing Think Tanks and Legislative Attacks on Higher Education, and how anticolonial theory and organizing lessons can guide strategies to block far-right forces. Wed, 16 Apr 2025 10:56:54 EDT Hialy Gutierrez 6c36f658-fb36-4d0d-a541-3d2821216282 https://politicalresearch.org/2021/06/16/precarity-american-way From a deeply-rooted historical analysis through to the sharp decline into precarity under neoliberalism to pandemic-induced unemployment, we traced the ways in which the capitalist class keep Americans poised on the precipice of ruin and isolation. Wed, 16 Jun 2021 01:39:11 EDT Political Research Associates 64f9342b-99a1-4b84-81bc-aecb45efe06e https://politicalresearch.org/2020/08/27/multi-racial-democracy-or-authoritarianism Right now, we are living in a global period of democratic decline and the rise of authoritarianism. From Moscow to Manila, from Brasilia to Budapest, from Warsaw to Washington, D.C., authoritarian leaders, parties, and movements are on the rise. Fueled… Thu, 27 Aug 2020 12:00:00 EDT Political Research Associates 321e0b25-3f2c-4c5d-89f9-15d10a0d40db https://politicalresearch.org/2019/06/12/epicenter-chicago Introduction In many ways, all eyes are on Chicago. The city increasingly finds itself at the epicenter of multiple discourses of violence and safety – from hubristic Presidential tweets claiming federal intervention is necessary to address Chicago’s murder rate, to… Wed, 12 Jun 2019 11:30:16 EDT Andrea J. Ritchie aa8dcfed-1e6b-40c7-93e7-300a6ddd4f83 https://politicalresearch.org/2018/11/27/road-flint It’s not by chance that the U.S. is full of hollowed-out urban centers. Residents are disproportionately poor and people of color, surrounded by wealthier and Whiter suburbs. It traces back to the Great Migration, which brought great numbers of African Am Tue, 27 Nov 2018 03:10:28 EST Anna Clark 8fc3ee27-994d-4c80-889a-dc730f320abe https://politicalresearch.org/2018/09/13/dismantling-public-education-one-brick-time Pioneer Institute bills itself as an “independent,” “non-partisan” think tank, but a closer look tells a different story. Thu, 13 Sep 2018 03:23:48 EDT Jessica Quiason 7ee709b4-70a9-42d4-a36d-59e1bf6563d2 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/08/17/captive-audience As bipartisan reform efforts have steadily drifted rightward, the heavy hand of evangelicals in prison reform efforts has created new kinds of problems. Thu, 17 Aug 2017 12:30:15 EDT Tanya Erzen 3ab682e1-acef-480d-934d-341442abc680 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/14/californias-prop-47-savings-context On June 8, 2017, the California Board of State and Community Corrections announced the reallocation of $103 million in savings resulting from the passage of 2014’s Proposition 47 criminal justice sentencing reforms. Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:57:19 EDT Kay Whitlock 79e6d574-6a76-49f1-b026-c6cb32c40019 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/06/06/endgame More than an actual means of improving policy, “bipartisan criminal justice reform” has become a mantra signifying hope. But what, exactly, are bipartisan advocates seeking to reform? Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:31:55 EDT Kay Whitlock 90ddf6fe-5281-4ccd-9161-680f4fe0f758 https://politicalresearch.org/2017/02/28/first100days-crash-course-week-5 Neoliberalism is the economic, social, and political analysis that best describes the startlingly unequal distribution of wealth and power in the U.S. today. Tue, 28 Feb 2017 03:49:02 EST Political Research Associates 80bbde54-0462-4f85-857a-2525387eca5d https://politicalresearch.org/2015/08/29/long-hurricane-10-years-later The storm waters may have receded, but as Darwin BondGraham wrote for us five years ago, the tidal wave of Economic Right policies has yet to retreat. Sat, 29 Aug 2015 01:27:38 EDT Darwin BondGraham 9d20ebcf-586e-455a-9a7f-d4380ef305ce https://politicalresearch.org/2015/07/07/neo-confederate-south-loses-again-time-free-market-neoliberalism After nine Black churchgoers were gunned down in Charleston, South Carolina, the Confederate battle flag is driving a wedge between neo-Confederates and free-market neoliberals. Tue, 07 Jul 2015 12:17:18 EDT Mariya Strauss 8e6497fc-44ee-4838-b83b-2f0575dc55cc https://politicalresearch.org/2015/06/09/who-speaks-conservative-women CWA has clung to relevance over the years, better than infamous anti-feminist Phyllis Schlafly, by demonstrating its adaptability in toning down strident anti-feminist language and laying claim to pro-life feminist arguments when convenient. Tue, 09 Jun 2015 12:01:35 EDT Alex DiBranco 3a2e8d13-dab7-4c3b-9945-402f6302da1f https://politicalresearch.org/2015/01/29/opening-pandoras-box The neoliberal agenda behind school choice, a wide range of schools from charter schools to school voucher programs, has adverse effects on communities of color. Thu, 29 Jan 2015 03:43:35 EST Rachel Tabachnick 1d71b748-5735-4e07-90cf-c100bbe05614 https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/31/lincoln-slave-narratives-and-hollywoods-neoliberal-agenda A number of acclaimed films focusing on the life of Abraham Lincoln, slavery, and the Civil War have distorted historical reality to suggest that exceptional individuals– and not social movements–are are responsible for progressive social change. Fri, 31 Oct 2014 02:34:50 EDT Craig Harshaw edecea6a-e26a-4258-a6c5-e66c403b336f https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/30/neoliberal-language-lessons Why have social conservatives acted as regular, if not always docile, allies in the Republican Party’s active role in the neoliberal project? Thu, 30 Oct 2014 01:17:47 EDT Richard Meagher c3eaa894-7da6-47b9-bdf3-95e9e01f18dc https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/15/neoliberalism-higher-education-and-rise-contingent-faculty-labor Higher education is under attack by the neoliberal enterprise. Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:32:42 EDT Jason Del Gandio b845b840-60f1-405a-8991-f275034752b7 https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/12/friedrich-von-hayek-thomas-piketty-and-search-political-economy The response to Piketty from liberal audiences indicates a longing to bring economic questions into political debate in ways that reflect their centrality to our lives. Sun, 12 Oct 2014 07:19:50 EDT Kim Phillips-Fein 8808cb08-3cad-458d-8136-6d5c3264605b https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/11/globalization-and-nafta-caused-migration-mexico When NAFTA was passed two decades ago, its boosters promised it would bring “First World” status for the Mexican people. Instead, it prompted a great migration north. Sat, 11 Oct 2014 04:15:13 EDT David Bacon 0548210a-7803-48c9-b618-078fdb63b425 https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/10/uncharitable-choice Two presidents in a row have increasingly steered federal grants and contracts to conservative Christian groups—including houses of worship. Fri, 10 Oct 2014 01:32:42 EDT Frederick Clarkson f32cd25e-438b-465d-b313-e5ac2835efd1 https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/09/beyond-prisons-mental-health-clinics Neoliberal policies that result in institutional closures carry a cost, too. Could communities seize the moment to redirect resources toward self-determination and liberation? Thu, 09 Oct 2014 05:32:38 EDT Liat Ben-Moshe, Erica R. Meiners d0187df2-a1f3-40d0-85e3-87afb677341b https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/08/how-colorblindness-co-evolved-free-market-thinking As White supremacists shifted tactics in response to mass social movements, they needed a mass electoral base. Neoliberals helped build it for them—and colorblindness helped wipe out some inconvenient historical truths. Wed, 08 Oct 2014 06:01:18 EDT Michael Omi, Howard Winant fd47f9d0-13b3-481a-a6af-ade39a0d4b16 https://politicalresearch.org/2014/10/07/new-right-neoliberalism While The New Right used democratic processes to further a reactionary agenda, neoliberalism engaged in opposing democratic goals. Tue, 07 Oct 2014 04:22:58 EDT Jean Hardisty d17ee3f4-a470-4288-bea0-106759460fb0