Soft Power and Freedom under the Coalition: State-Corporate Power and the Threat to Democracy

About E. Bell

Emma Bell is senior lecturer in British Studies at the Université de Savoie where she teaches courses on British history and politics focusing particularly on neoliberal consensus politics. Her research on different aspects of state authoritarianism attempts to understand policy in its wider social and political context. She has published widely in France and the UK. Her last book Criminal Justice and Neoliberalism (2011) focused on penal authoritarianism under the New Labour governments. She is the current coordinator of the European Group for the Study of Deviance and Social Control.