Market Driven Politics
Neoliberal Democracy and the Public Interest

This text is a multi-level study which moves between an analysis of those global forces, through national politics, to the changes occuring in two fields of public life that are both fundamentally important and familiar to everyone - television and health care.

His original analysis of the key processes of commodification of public services, the conversion of public-service workforces into employees motivated to general profit, and the role of the state in absorbing risk is critically important, not just for an analysis of market-driven politics but also for longer-term defence of democracy and the collective values on which it depends.