The Neoliberal Republic : : Corporate Lawyers, Statecraft, and the Making of Public-Private France / / Antoine Vauchez, Pierre France.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2021
• VerfasserIn: Vauchez, Antoine,; France, Pierre,
• MitwirkendeR: Morley, Meg,; Moyn, Samuel,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Series: Corpus Juris: The Humanities in Politics and Law
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.) :; 3 graphs
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; FOREWORD --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; 1 IN-BETWEEN THE PUBLIC AND THE PRIVATE / The New Lawyering Business --; 2 THE PUBLIC-PRIVATE FOUNDATIONS OF THE NEOLIBERAL STATE --; 3 THE HOLLOWING OUT OF THE PUBLIC INTEREST --; 4 A BLACK HOLE IN DEMOCRACY? --; CONCLUSION / On the “Public-ness” of the State --; AFTERWORD / Macron, the Nouveau Monde, and the Crowning of the Public-Private Elite --; APPENDIX 1 / Methodology --; APPENDIX 2 / Glossary --; GENERAL BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501752575; 9783110739084; 9783110754001; 9783110753776; 9783110754094; 9783110753868
• DOI: 10.1515/9781501752575?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Antoine Vauchez, Pierre France.

The Neoliberal Republic traces the corrosive effects that the revolving door between public service and private enrichment has on the French state and its ability to govern and regulate the private sector. Casting a piercing light on this circulation of influence among corporate lawyers and others in the French power elite, Antoine Vauchez and Pierre France analyze how this dynamic, a feature of all Western democracies, has developed in concert with the rise of neoliberalism over the past three decades. Based on interviews with dozens of public officials in France and a unique biographical database of more than 200 civil servants-turned corporate lawyers, The Neoliberal Republic explores how the always-blurred boundary between public service and private interests has now been critically compromised, enabling the transformation of the regulatory state into either an ineffectual bystander or an active collaborator in the privatization of public welfare. The cumulative effect of these developments, the authors reveal, undermines democratic citizenship and the capacity to imagine the public good.