TY - GEN T1 - Personalizing the state : an anthropology of law, politics, and welfare in austerity Britain T2 - Clarendon studies in criminology. T2 - Oxford scholarship online. A1 - Koch, Insa Lee LA - English PP - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press YR - 2018 ED - First edition. UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/Oxford_subscribe_9780191845437 AB - Starting with penal populism, this text examines a paradox: the illiberal turn that liberal democracy has taken. Based on ethnographic fieldwork on a housing estate, it moves from why liberal democracy has taken a punitive turn, to what democracy means to these residents and how they experience their daily engagements with the state. CN - HN400.M26 K6 2018 SN - 9780191845437 SN - 9780198807513 KW - Marginality, Social : Great Britain. KW - Great Britain : Social conditions. KW - Great Britain : Economic conditions. KW - Great Britain : Politics and government. KW - Society. KW - Society & culture: general. ER -