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changed the thinking about the complementary nature of capitalism and democracy. Theoretical as well as empirical analyses are showing an increasing number of con-tradictions—even incompatibilities—between capitalism and democracy. Albeit with new arguments and insights, the debate contains some theoretical links to the leftist
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politics, alter the balance of influence between capitalism and democracy with consequences for both the trajectory of public policy and distributive outcomes. I illustrate this argument with an account of how capitalism and democracy have the systems of changed in the developed economies over the years since the Second World War.
two limitations on a democracy, while on one hand capitalism is needed for a democracy, it also limits it from reaching its full potential. In this paper, I will delve further into these two limitations capitalism imposes, explaining corporate influence on a democracy both in a direct and indirect manner. I will do this by first describing the
1998; Acemoglu and Robinson 2005), but conceptualizing capitalist democracy as a class compromise does not itself take us very far in explaining the variance in policies and outcomes across countries. Although it is easy to think that democracy—as a particular form of government—and capitalism—as a particular type of economic
1. Introduction. are ways of thi. ing about democracy and capitalism that make them seemirreconcilable. economic freedom and enables a small number of hard working or lucky individuals to. ntial wealt. then capitalism may have an inherent tendency to increaseinequality. If democracie.
government but peace, easy taxes and tolerable administration is to overlook the essential role of government in providing the legal and regulatory frameworks that are essential to capitalism. It reduces the study of capitalism to the analysis of 1 Bruce R. Scott, Chapter 2, Capitalism, Democracy and Development, June 27, 2006.
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