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Property Threats and the Politics of Anti-Statism
2021Tax revenues have risen robustly across Latin America in recent decades, casting doubt on the region's reputation for having states too poor to finance economic and social development. However, dramatic differences persist in the magnitude of national tax burdens and public sector size, even among seemingly similar countries.
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Living with Ambivalence: Bureaucracy, Anti-Statism and 'Progressive' Politics
New Formations, 2020This paper addresses a paradox. Bureaucracy, I argue, can be viewed as an ideological construct mobilised in both in the anti-statist rhetoric of neoliberalism, and in discourses of the 'progressive' left. But it is also integral to a range of contemporary calls for the regulation of corporate power, public action and personal conduct.
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Anti-statism and Difference Feminism in International Social Movements
International Feminist Journal of Politics, 2003Feminist strategies that neglect or consistently deplore state action cannot accomplish what women need – because individuals need collectives such as states to solve collective action problems and to move toward more just social arrangements. Strategies that rely heavily on women's differences from men also cannot accomplish what women need – because ...
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War Makes the State, but Not as It Pleases: Homeland Security and American Anti-Statism
Security Studies, 2006The shock of war is thought to be closely associated with the growth of the state, in the United States and elsewhere. Yet each proposal to significantly expand state power in the United States since September 11 has been resisted, restrained, or even rejected outright.
Matthew Kroenig, Jay Stowsky
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Americanist anti-statism : making sense of America's recent turn to the right
2022This thesis was scanned from the print manuscript for digital preservation and is copyright the author. Researchers can access this thesis by asking their local university, institution or public library to make a request on their behalf. Monash staff and postgraduate students can use the link in the References field.
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Anti-Statism in German Literature, as Exemplified by the Work of John Henry Mackay
PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 1947Emerson's and Thoreau's individualistic, anti-government writings, it is said, developed out of an American background. Our land of liberty, out of fear that government might come to concern itself too familiarly with matters pertaining to the personal thinking and behavior of individuals, has nurtured from its beginning a lively suspicion for ...
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Twentieth Century British History, 2010
This article argues that the anti-fluoridation campaigns in the 1950s stemmed from concerns about both the increasing 'chemicalization' of food and the growing authority of the state over the private home and individual body. The British Housewives League (BHL), an organization typically thought insignificant after the late 1940s, was in fact at the ...
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This article argues that the anti-fluoridation campaigns in the 1950s stemmed from concerns about both the increasing 'chemicalization' of food and the growing authority of the state over the private home and individual body. The British Housewives League (BHL), an organization typically thought insignificant after the late 1940s, was in fact at the ...
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In the shadow of the garrison state: America's anti-statism and its Cold War grand strategy
Choice Reviews Online, 2000Philip Zelikow, Aaron L. Friedberg
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