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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.
Nov 1, 2024 · The enduring—and sometimes intense—debates about democracy and capitalism point to the great influence of these institutions on life and suggest the stress they experience. To prepare students for citizenship and economic agency in the world requires building their knowledge about these systems.
Dec 1, 2021 · But overall, the sense of the growing irrelevance of mainstream politics may well persist, especially for marginal groups (or more’s the same, groups that perceive they have become marginal, such as elements of the white working class) in turn feeding the sense that democracy remains under stress.
This article will examine competiting fractions of the transnational capitalist class (TCC), how these fractions are confronting the crisis of global capitalism, and how TCC theory analyzes the current state of conflict.
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- Representation regimes
- Dynamics
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This paper argues that the relationship between capitalism and democracy is not immutable but subject to changes over time best understood as movements across distinctive growth and representation regimes. Growth regimes are the institutionalized practices central to how a country secures economic prosperity based on complementary sets of firm str...
Two issues are central to contemporary debates about the relationship between capitalism and democracy. The first, normally given the most attention, is: how much control do democratic governments exert over capitalist economies? But, since democracies are representative systems designed to speak for a popular will, an equally important issue is...
This account is revealing about the dynamics through which capitalism and democracy change. Growth regimes and representation regimes are mutually constitutive of each other. As a result, the process whereby they change is marked by multiple endogeneities rather than stark lines of causality. Firm strategies at the heart of growth regimes respon...
For comments on a draft of this paper, I am grateful to Peter Gourevitch, Deborah Mabbett, Jonas Pontusson, Mark Schwartz, Waltraud Schelkle, Ron Rogowski, Yeling Tan and Nicholas Ziegler. Georgina Evans provided helpful research assistance.
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Jun 29, 2017 · Abstract. Education within capitalism too often reproduces social and economic inequalities. Schools are depicted as failing and teachers are blamed. In this paper, I examine the discourses underlying this situation and the role of foundations in the US and the World Bank in developing countries in maintaining it.
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Jan 29, 2021 · In many parts of the Western world, the liberal and democratic values and institutions on which planning ideas are based have been under sustained attack or crumbling in the face of globalising capitalism and consumer culture.
