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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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Capitalism is an economic system that emphasizes private ownership, free markets, and profit-driven production. It allows individuals and businesses to pursue their economic interests with minimal government intervention. On the other hand, democracy is a political system that emphasizes the participation of citizens in decision-making ...
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 ...
democracy and capitalism developed in tandem. The debates are all about how and why. 1 The idea that democracy and capitalism cannot coexist has a long history, as Goran Therborn has pointed out. See “The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy,” New Left Review (May/June 1977): 3-41 at 3.
Jul 10, 2021 · More recently, Slobodian argues that the entire neoliberal system of international institutions set up since the 1950s has served to protect capitalism against democracy: the entire “neoliberal project focused on designing institutions–not to liberate markets but to encase them, to inoculate capitalism against the threat of democracy” (Slobodian 2018, 2). For many on the left of the ...
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Sep 8, 2022 · Liberal thinkers have long maintained that capitalism and democracy are complementary —that both mutually reinforce the same demand for freedom or, at the very least, that the freedom democracy requires fits best with a competitive market system. But the relationship between the two has been hotly debated for centuries.
