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Abstract. This article discusses three different approaches to the study of democratic redistribution. It starts by considering the recent literature on capitalism as an economic system, and how the democratic and economic institutions may relate to each other.
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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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Democracy predates capitalism by millennia. Nevertheless, it is difficult to overlook the ways the two evolved together in Western modernity, so much so that it is commonplace to speak of them as two sides of the same coin. Liberal thinkers have long maintained that capitalism and democracy are complementary—that both mutually
Abstract. Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) and traditional medicine (TM) are important social phenomena. This article reviews the sociological literature on the topic. First, it addresses the question of terminology, arguing that the naming process is a glimpse into the complexities of power and history that characterize the field.
Apr 24, 2024 · The key teaching of medicine is to first, do no harm. To place a limit over the individual’s actions. Somehow, if we are all going to survive the 21st century, capitalism will need to absorb this lesson, to develop a new spirit 14 to place a limit on its limitless drive for profit. Otherwise, it is entirely possible that capitalism will not ...
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Nov 9, 2021 · The welfare state is at the centre of a long-standing debate in political economy about the relationship between capitalism and democracy. A standard view holds that democracy compensates for inequalities in the distribution of property and income by the extension of the welfare state. But this view raises a number of empirical and theoretical ...
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Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies Harvard University 27 Kirkland Street Cambridge MA 02138. phall@fas.harvard.edu. July 2021. ocracy, growth regimes, representation, political economyAbstractThis paper argues that the relationship between capitalism and democracy is not immutable but subject to changes over time best understood.
