{"product_id":"no-nonsense","title":"No Nonsense","description":"In 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":57258358964568,"sku":"9781804294192","price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781804294192_07a1f1c8-e7ce-41c2-85f8-c59bfdb356f3.jpg?v=1780447520","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/no-nonsense","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}