{"product_id":"no-nonsense-1","title":"No Nonsense","description":"HOW THE NETHERLANDS BECAME A HOTBED OF NEOLIBERALISM\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the 1980s, Dutch politics underwent a neoliberal turn overseen by the Christian Democrat Ruud Lubbers. It formed part of an interna­tional trend, famously spearheaded by Reagan and Thatcher. What was new, however, was the way Lubbers depoliticized his reforms and sold them to the public as ‘no-nonsense’ politics. When social democrats and trade unions came to embrace neoliberal reform in the mid-1990s, an elite consensus was forged.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn this path-breaking study, Merijn Oudenampsen traces the long shadow these developments cast over Dutch politics. Neoliberal­ism helped nurture the right-wing populism of Pim Fortuyn and Geert Wilders and inspired the austerity policies of the right-wing liberal Prime Minister Mark Rutte. A bleak political template was created for the world.","brand":"Verso Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58509257834831,"sku":"9781804294192","price":34.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/www.suomalainen.com\/products\/no-nonsense-1","provider":"Suomalainen.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}