Articles by Thomas Da Costa Vieira

February 21, 2024

‘Democratic’ governments exploit protests to increase attacks on citizens' right to resist

Thomas Da Costa Vieira

The rise of authoritarian politics in ‘formal democracies’ across Europe has been met with various forms of protest. Some of these movements have achieved partial success. But evidence from the UK and France suggests that neoliberal governments are harnessing such resistance to accelerate authoritarianism and hostility towards marginalised people, write Joseph Ward and Thomas Da Costa Vieira

Thomas Da Costa Vieira

Fellow in International Political Economy, International Relations Department, London School of Economics and Political Science

Thomas's research focuses on the political economy of legitimation, the state, the climate crisis, and authoritarian neoliberalism.

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@tdacostavieira Authoritarian neoliberalism between Johnson and Jupiter: Declining legitimacy and the elevation of home affairs in post-Brexit Britain and Macron’s France
Geoforum, Online First

‘In time, every worker a capitalist’: Accumulation by legitimation and authoritarian neoliberalism in Thatcher’s Britain
Competition & Change, 27 (5), 729–747

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