Capitalist Development and Democracy by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, John D. Stephens

Capitalist Development and Democracy



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Capitalist Development and Democracy Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, John D. Stephens ebook
ISBN: 0226731421, 9780226731421
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Page: 398


The title of this book, China's Development: Capitalism and Empire, reveals much about its themes and its position in a now vast literature as scholars try to work out where China is heading as a political-economic system. DEMOCRACY, CAPITALISM AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT: Renewing the policy agenda. What happens is that just as capitalist development consists of a sequence of evolving stages which the social system internalises is habituated to them, so is the introduction and consolidation of democratic rule. Clearly some form of capitalism has a grip on The first is to give its people some degree of empowerment with a combination of grass-roots democracy and the decentralization of economic power to regions. In Democracy in America, Alexis de Tocqueville argued that the public's trust alleviates pressure on the state, allowing it to function more effectively. How Capitalism is Turning the Internet Against Democracy. But if these stunning economic statistics make you think that so much capitalist development must also have brought more democracy to China, think again. Conflict between capitalism and democracy is not a recent development, but goes back at least to the Putney Debates of the seventeenth century. The roots of the rottenness of India's liberal-political democratic. Order are unearthed in the process of capitalist development. The latter has essentially been a conservative. All hopes of a third alternative, which will guarantee the realisation of peaceful and harmonious development without class struggle, through the forms of capitalist 'democracy', 'planned capitalism', etc. Photo of Michel Under really existing capitalism, however, few of the prospective benefits may be developed — not to mention spread widely.