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Mar 11, 2020 · Democracy and capitalism coexist in many variations around the world, each continuously reshaped by the conditions and the people forming them. Increasingly, people have deep concerns about both ...
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- 10 The exclusive character of US democracy becomes even more apparent if the 10–15% of the lower class without citizenship are taken into account. A considerably smaller part (5%) at the upper end of the income scale does not have citizenship (Bonica et al. 2013, p. 110).
Kapitalismus und Demokratie folgen unterschiedlichen Logi-ken. Ersterer basiert auf Eigentumsrechten, individueller Gewinnmaximierung, hie-rarchischen Entscheidungsstrukturen und ungleichen Besitzverhältnissen, Letztere gründet auf der Suche nach Allgemeinwohl, Diskurs, politischer Gleichheit und den Verfahren konsensueller oder majoritärer Entsche...
The definition of democracy is highly contested: liberal, social, pluralistic, elitist, decisionist, communitarian, cosmopolitan, republican, deliberative, participatory, feminist, critical, post-modern and multicultural concepts of democracy all compete with each other (Lembcke et al. 2012). From a more simplified perspective, however, three group...
2014). Declining turnout and increasing social selectivity of the electorate also stem from increasingly precarious conditions faced by the lower classes on the labor mar-ket as well as the decline of catch-all parties, labor unions and other large collective organizations that played a crucial role in the politicization and representation of the l...
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Jul 10, 2021 · On the other hand, some claim that without restrictions on democracy, capitalism could be imperiled. From Marx onward, numerous scholars have claimed that democracy has been limited in order to preserve capitalism. For Marx, the institutions of the state were built to protect capitalism; democracy was just the “dictatorship of the bourgeois ...
Apart from this general compatibility, there is a more specific connection between the interests of the capitalist class and liberal democracy. This connection arises from the particular sort of “intra-class” relations that are characteristic of capitalism. Since capitalists must sell the surplus they extract on the market, they compete ...
Mar 9, 2018 · This does not mean that capitalism per se is incompatible with democracy. A sustainable coexistence of capitalism and democracy is best achieved through mutual embedding. The right to private property and functioning markets are vital restrictions on the centralization of political power in democratic regimes.
- Wolfgang Merkel
- wolfgang.merkel@wzb.eu
- 2014
Sep 8, 2022 · The idea that capitalism and democracy are natural complements is by far the most prominent in public discourse. So closely are the two associated in the Anglophone imagination that, when confronted with the prospect of constraining one, most citizens will assume that the other will be constrained in equal proportion: “socialism” is almost as likely to be contrasted with “democracy” as ...
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By contrast, other scholars have argued that capitalism and democracy are not only compatible but largely symbiotic. Some emphasize the contribution of democratic institutions to capitalist development, noting that the success of capitalism depends on secure property rights whose maintenance require s a state dedicated to the rule of law. But
