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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 · 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Mar 9, 2018 · The ongoing critique of capitalism in the name of democracy, and social justice in intellectual and political debates also contributed to the social and political embedding of capitalism. A major driving force behind this development was, however, the challenge to the Western model of capitalism by a non-capitalist alternative in the form of Soviet-style actually existing socialism .
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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.
