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- Although it is easy to think that democracy—as a particular form of government—and capitalism—as a particular type of economic system—would produce similar policies and outcomes, one of the most striking facts about capitalist democracies is the enormous cross-national variance in inequality, social spending, redistribution, and the structure of social protection.
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...
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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 · Global capitalism seems to be placing democracy, especially liberal democracy, under considerable stress. Support for populism has surged, especially for extreme right parties with populist and authoritarian programs.
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
Capitalists are neither irreducibly hostile to, nor invariably supportive of, democracy. Rather, their political interests, like that of other classes, flow from their specific location within the class structure of a society. What are the distinctive political interests of the capitalist class?
This classic literature about the relationship between capitalism and democracy is illuminating. But it suffers from two limitations. First, much of the literature focuses on whether the two systems can co-exist, and there is more at stake here than their survival.
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we want to understand how democracy and capitalism coexist, therefore, we need a model of capitalism that goes beyond a simple dichotomy between state and market. This essay discusses three different approaches to the study of democratic redistri-
