Ned Crowley
I am a PhD candidate in sociology at New York University, where I study public finance and fiscal politic, public opinion, and political participation.
Address: New York, New York, United States
Address: New York, New York, United States
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Drawing on Thomas Edsall’s (2012) idea of the politics of scarcity, I will suggest that fiscal austerity since the global financial crisis contributed to citizens’ sense of scarcity of public goods and services, including in the areas of social housing, healthcare, and education. Nationalist political entrepreneurs found in this sense of scarcity an opportunity to scapegoat groups they define as falling outside the national community, simultaneously redirecting blame away from the project of austerity itself.
Drawing on Thomas Edsall’s (2012) idea of the politics of scarcity, I will suggest that fiscal austerity since the global financial crisis contributed to citizens’ sense of scarcity of public goods and services, including in the areas of social housing, healthcare, and education. Nationalist political entrepreneurs found in this sense of scarcity an opportunity to scapegoat groups they define as falling outside the national community, simultaneously redirecting blame away from the project of austerity itself.