Authoritarian liberalism, ordoliberal rationality and the European integration project

Popov, Maksim Evgenʼevič (author)

The author assesses the relevance and analytical significance of authoritarian liberalism and interprets it as one of the modern conceptual models of ordoliberalism and European integration. The basic concepts of authoritarian liberalism and ordoliberalism emphasise the political and ideological connection between the authoritarianism of the strong state and the economic liberalism of market rationality. As a flexible market-oriented form of authoritarian liberalism, ordoliberalism means a rational strategy for maintaining and promoting the European integration project towards which the market economy and the technocratic elite are moving to contain crises. Due to the presence of the values of political liberalism, pluralism and the rule of law, authoritarianism in this structure is not repressive or monocentric, but subject to democratic criticism in relation to the supranational regulation of European integration.

• Language: English
• Keywords: authoritarian liberalism, ordoliberalism, market capitalism, democracy, eurocrisis, European integration
• Work type: Article
• Typology: 1.01 - Original Scientific Article
• Organization: FDV - Faculty of Social Sciences
• Publication status: Published
• Publication version: Version of Record
• Year: 2023
• Number of pages: Str. 475–492, 452
• Numbering: Letn. 60, št. 3
• PID: 20.500.12556/RUL-152392
• UDC: 330.831.8:061.1EU
• ISSN on article: 0040-3598
• DOI: 10.51936/tip.60.3.475
• COBISS.SI-ID: 171218947
• Publication date in RUL: 23.11.2023

Record is a part of a journal

• Title: Teorija in praksa : revija za družbena vprašanja
• Shortened title: Teor. praksa
• Publisher: Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za politične vede, Visoka šola za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za sociologijo, politične vede in novinarstvo, Fakulteta za družbene vede
• ISSN: 0040-3598
• COBISS.SI-ID: 763652

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Secondary language

• Language: Slovenian
• Title: Avtoritarni liberalizem, ordoliberalna racionalnost in evropski integracijski projekt

Abstract

Avtor ocenjuje relevantnost in analitični pomen avtoritarnega liberalizma in ga interpretira kot enega izmed modernih konceptualnih modelov ordoliberalizma in evropske integracije. Temeljni koncepti avtoritarnega liberalizma in ordoliberalizma poudarjajo politično in ideološko povezavo med avtoritarnostjo močne države in ekonomskim liberalizmom tržne racionalnosti. Ordoliberalizem kot fleksibilna tržno usmerjena oblika avtoritarnega liberalizma pomeni racionalno strategijo ohranjanja in spodbujanja projekta evropskega združevanja, v smeri katerega gresta tržna ekonomija in tehnokratska elita v prizadevanju za zaustavitev kriz. Zaradi prisotnosti vrednot političnega liberalizma, pluralizma in vladavine prava, avtoritarnost v tej strukturi ni represivna ali monocentrična, temveč je predmet demokratične kritike v razmerju do nadnacionalne regulacije evropske integracije.

• Keywords: avtoritarni liberalizem, ordoliberalizem, tržni kapitalizem, demokracija, evrokriza, evropska integracija