修正新自由主义:英国政府新战略研究

Revisionist Neoliberalism:The New Strategy of the British Government

本文对2016年英国脱欧公投后的政府主要战略文件进行了经验研究,从国家与社会、政府与市场关系的角度展开理论分析。20世纪80年代英国新自由主义改革在取得明显绩效的同时,也给英国带来经济增长质量较低、去工业化严重和社会差异相对较大等问题。从布莱尔工党政府到卡梅伦联合政府,都对改革进行了纠偏与修正,但没有触动英国的新自由主义模式。英国政府新战略的趋势是以政府战略提升经济质量、以政府战略引导产业发展和强化政府社会职能。这说明新自由主义作为支配性的意识形态和价值观念在英国正在得到修正,英国的国家经济社会职能趋于强化,而这也是当下世界各国的普遍趋势。

This paper makes an empirical study of the British government’s strategy documents after the Brexit referendum in 2016 and a theoretical analysis from the perspective of the relationship between state and society and that between government and market.In the 1980s,the neoliberal reform in Britain achieved remarkable results,which nevertheless brought about some problems such as low-quality economic growth,severe deindustrialization and relatively huge social gaps.The successive British governments,from Tony Blair’s Labour government to David Cameron’s Coalition government,have made corrections and revisions of the reform,none of which has touched upon the British Neo-liberalism model.The British government’s new strategy is intended to improve economic quality,guide industrial development and strengthen the government’s social functions.This shows that neoliberalism,as a dominant ideology and value,is being revised in Britain,and that the economic and social functions of the state tend to be strengthened,which is a common trend in the world.