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- Since the early 1970s, Wolfgang Streeck argues, “democratic capitalism” has been striving to disavow its oxymoronic nature.1 What the author of Buying Time calls democratic capitalism is a political economy predicated on the conciliation of market competition with the entitlements granted by the outcome of democratic elections and collective bargaining between organized labor and capital owners.
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Wolfgang Streeck traces a much longer arc, from 1945 onwards, of tensions between the logic of markets and the wishes of voters—culminating, he argues, in the international tempest of debt that now threatens to submerge democratic accountability altogether beneath the storm-waves of capital.
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To determine if and under what conditions democracy and capitalism are compatible, Merkel distinguishes three “types” of capitalism— “market-liberal”, “organized and embedded”, and “neoliberal”—and three types of democracy—“minimalist”, “embedded” or “middle-ground”, and “maximizing” (Merkel 2014, pp. 112 ...
Wolfgang Streeck traces a much longer arc, from 1945 onwards, of tensions between the logic of markets and the wishes of voters—culminating, he argues, in the international tempest of debt that now threatens to submerge democratic accountability altogether beneath the storm-waves of capital.
Jul 8, 2019 · Over the past decade, Wolfgang Streeck has emerged as one of the most prominent voices in the debate on the crisis of democratic capitalism. This article provides a critical appraisal of Streeck’s recent writings in light of his wider intellectual trajectory, tracing the evolutions and continuities in his work over time; highlighting its ...
- Jerome Roos
- 2019
May 16, 2023 · In this book, based on his 2012 Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s.
democratic capitalism is a political economy predicated on the conciliation of market competition with the entitlements granted by the outcome of democratic elections and collective bargaining between organized labor and capital owners.
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May 24, 2016 · Streeck refers to this “process of de-democratization of capitalism” as the “end of the postwar political-economic formation”, in which democracy is “sterilized as redistributive mass democracy and reduced to a combination of the rule of law and public entertainment” (2014, p. 5).
