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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 groups of democracy theories can be identified: the minimalist, middle-ground and maximizing theories. Depending on which concept of democracy is applied, a
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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy is one of the great classics in twentieth century social science. What makes Schumpeter’s book so brilliant are three things in particular: its novel view of democracy; its heretic analysis of the workings of the capitalist economy; and its provocative
Polanyi’s economic sociology, and in particular his twin categories of non-market redistributive and reciprocal forms of economic coordination, expand the conceptual toolkit of critical theorists in conceptualizing the relationship between democracy and capitalism. In general, critical theorists have focused unduly on the labor movement as ...
There is along and distinguished literature on the relationship between capitalism and democracy whose outlines I only briefly. sketch As the suffrage expanded across nineteenth century Europe, bringing with it the prospect of mass democracy, many early observers regarded democracy as a threat to capitalism – a view prominent among British
The lack of a theory of institutional origins also haunts the literature on political institutions. As Riker (1980) argued many years ago, institutions are ‘congealed tastes’ which themselves have to be explained. Some of the latest literature on democracy and capitalism seeks to endogenize institutions, including the institution of democracy
There are many different versions of critical theory, both within the tradition of the Frankfurt School which inaugurated the idea and the concept of “critical theory”, and beyond the latter in the sense of feminist, poststructuralist, postmodernist, postcolonial and queer critical theories, to name the most prominent incarnations.
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This raises the alternative possibility of developing a contemporary critical theory of the crisis-ridden reproduction of the negative totality of capitalist society that brings Adorno and Horkheimer's critical theory together with the subterranean strand of contemporary critical theory: the New Reading of the critique of political economy as a critical social theory.
