Legitimation Crisis of Neoliberalism

Alessandro Bonanno is Texas State University System Regents’ Professor and Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Sam Houston State University, Texas, USA.

• 1. The State in Classical Laissez-Faire, its Crisis and the Establishment of Fordism.- 2. The Legitimation Crisis of Fordism: Ideological and Cultural Contradictions.- 3. Legitimation and Resistance: The Structural Contradictions of Regulated Capitalism.- 4. Neoliberalism: Its Roots, Development and Legitimation.- 5. The Ideas of the Chicago School and the Structural Contradictions of Neoliberalism.- 6. A Theory of the Neoliberal Global State.- 7. The Conditions and Contradictions of Legitimation and Will-Formation under Global Neoliberalism.- 8. The Corporatization of Activism: Resistance under Neoliberal Globalization.- 9. Conclusions: The Legitimation Crisis and the Future of Neoliberalism.