Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy

Author:   Göran Therborn
Publisher:   Verso Books
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Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 November 2020
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Classical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital? Across every continent, people think inequality is a ‘very big problem’. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. And yet capitalist states don’t respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice into a professional power game? To dispel our worsening political malaise, Göran Therborn argues, requires a ‘disruptive democracy’ of radical social movements, such as the climate strike. Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy opens with a major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. There is also a compact historical survey of worldwide patterns of democratization and a landmark analysis of the OECD economies, ‘The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy’, originally published in New Left Review and collected here in book form for the first time.

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Author:   Göran Therborn
Publisher:   Verso Books
Imprint:   Verso Books
Dimensions:   Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 21.00cm
Weight:   0.201kg
ISBN:  

9781788738996


ISBN 10:   1788738993
Pages:   208
Publication Date:   24 November 2020
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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A tour de force. Therborn explores the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy with great originality and insight - Colin Crouch, author of Post-Democracy After the Crises A tour de force. Therborn explores the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy with great originality and insight - Colin Crouch, author of Post-Democracy after the Crises How much inequality can democracy withstand before it collapses? Goeran Therborn addresses this fundamental question and gives us cause to hope for a more egalitarian future - Donatella della Porta, author of Where Did the Revolution Go?


A tour de force. Therborn explores the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy with great originality and insight - Colin Crouch, author of Post-Democracy After the Crises


At a time when historians and economists tend to retire behind the barricades of their increasingly specialized professions, answering the big comparative questions about the pathways into and out of modernity, the global processes of inequality and the forces of possible change have been largely left to the sociologists. In my view, Göran Therborn, has made more essential contributions in these fields than anyone else, by a combination of analytical lucidity, common sense and an extraordinary command of international comparative data. -- Eric Hobsbawm, author of <i>The Age of Extremes</i> A tour de force. Therborn explores the complex relationship between capitalism and democracy with great originality and insight -- Colin Crouch, author of <i>Post-Democracy After the Crises</i> How much inequality can democracy withstand before it collapses? Göran Therborn addresses this fundamental question and gives us cause to hope for a more egalitarian future -- Donatella della Porta, author of <i>Where Did the Revolution Go?</i> One of the world's leading analysts. Therborn has given us valuable intellectual tools with which to work. -- Chris Maisano * Jacobin *


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Göran Therborn is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Cambridge. His works have been published in at least twenty-four languages and include The Killing Fields of Inequality, From Marxism to Post-Marxism?, Between Sex and Power, and What Does the Ruling Class Do When It Rules?

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