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Politics, Economics and Security

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Over the past 30 years liberal democracies have been going through a period of deep political economic transformation as the Keynesian welfare state has gradually given way to market-led neoliberalism as the prevailing mechanism for producing and distributing goods and services throughout economy and society. While this transformation has been uneven, impacting different countries and sectors to varying degrees, it has undoubtedly served to reshape the sphere of domestic security. This sphere is no longer dominated by the public police as it was in the early to mid-20th century. In line with the neoliberal shift towards the market, domestic security is today undertaken by a combination of police forces, private security contractors and other less prominent ‘hybrid’ actors working alongside and in competition with one another. Against this backdrop, it has now become accepted wisdom that when studying domestic security, it is necessary to focus on the entire public—private spectrum.1

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White, A. (2014). Politics, Economics and Security. In: Gill, M. (eds) The Handbook of Security. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-67284-4_5

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