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

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 thei...

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Main Author: Koch, Insa Lee (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Clarendon studies in criminology.
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