ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses two aspects of debates surrounding the consequences the new global political economy has for citizenship. First, it considers liberalism's conceptual separation of the state versus the economy. Second, as Colin Crouch has argued in The Strange Non-Death of Neo-liberalism, in spite of ongoing dualistic perceptions of the state on the one side and the market on the other, the chapter considers the growing power of corporations as not necessarily coinciding with the market's interests. The chapter explores the roots of liberalism's conceptual division between the state and the market by demonstrating that this philosophically established divide was a strategic political decision from the beginning. It shows Marshall's theorising on citizenship as problematic because this divide served as the foundation of his concept. The chapter outlines major transformations within the global political economy that contradict the validity of the distinction – one that until very recently has served neo-liberals as a vehicle for arguing for the 'self-regulating market'.
