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- Title
Waking Up from Anesthesia: Decline and Violence in France.
- Authors
Moraitis, Alexis
- Abstract
There is a severe "crisis of authority", he argues, and the state needs to "reassert its power" and "not let anything pass." To overcome the technological backwardness of French industry and allow it to catch up with its European and American competitors, French modernizers deployed a series of I dirigiste i institutional mechanisms that gave the state the discretionary power to control the pace and direction of the country's industrial development.[1] Activist industrial policies, public control of the domestic banking system and indicative planning were all key instruments used by French governments to accelerate modernization. B Dismantling the Welfare State b For the past decades, the main challenge for state elites has been to break free from the expensive shackles of the social anesthesia state while still keeping the threat of revolt at bay. Yet as economic decline aggravated and social anesthetics subsided, the urban crisis came to be viewed as a threat posed to state authority and national cohesion.[13] Unable to re-open the closed factories, the state began addressing economic insecurity by increasing local police presence and strengthening the judicial apparatus.
- Subjects
FRANCE; INTERNATIONAL competition; CAPITALISM; ECONOMIC competition; ECONOMIC models; ECONOMIC policy; FRENCH presidential elections; ELECTIONS
- Publication
Brooklyn Rail, 2022, pN.PAG
- ISSN
2157-2151
- Publication type
Article