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Title: Capitalist Development and Democracy by Dietrich Rueschemeyer, Evelyne Huber Stephens, John D. Stephens, Evelyne Huber ISBN: 0-226-73144-8 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: May, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Summary: Convincing account capitalist-democratic consolidation
Comment: In this groundbreaking work, Rueschemeyer, Stephens and Stephens establish not only a strong correlation between capitalist development and democracy, but also a convincing causal mechanism by which this development can bring about democracy. The authors choose to focus on a relative class power model in their account of democracy: capitalist development initiates a profound shift in the class structure and the relative power of each class. According to the authors, in a pre-capitalist society the subordinate classes are most likely to support a transition demoracy because they essentially have nothing to lose and everything to gain. They are opposed in this respect by the landowning aristocracy, the dominant class in pre-industrial society and the class that has everything to lose in a democratization of the political system. Thus, the strenghtening of the subordinate (working) class brought about by industrialization bodes well for democracy. Capitalism also brings about an entirely new player--the middle class--that, when it allies with the interests of subordinate classes, intensifies the push for democracy. The analysis of social actors is joined by an analysis of social structure. That is, Rueschemeyer, et al believe that a balance between the state's power and the power of social actors must be established in order for democracy to become a possibility. A strong state counters the power of the elites while a strong landowning class prevents a totalitarian state from forming. The key to creating this balance is the development of a strong civil society between these two forces. Autonomous of both the government and the class system, civil society consists in the aggregation of social actors in various organizations (such as community-based or religious groups and trade unions). Capitalist development frees people from their preoccupation with subsistence agriculture, allowing them to join in such associations and increasing thier power in voicing their collective interests. The most significant contribution of this account is the reassertion of individual agency in the process of democracy, a concept that is often ignored in purely structural accounts of democratization.
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Title: Making Democracy Work by Robert D. Putnam, Robert Leonardi, Raffaella Y. Nanetti ISBN: 0691037388 Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr Pub. Date: 27 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Democracy and Development : Political Institutions and Well-Being in the World, 1950-1990 by Adam Przeworski, Michael E. Alvarez, Jose Antonio Cheibub, Fernando Limongi ISBN: 0521793793 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 28 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Social Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy : Lord and Peasant in the Making of the Modern World by Barrington Moore ISBN: 0807050733 Publisher: Beacon Press Pub. Date: 01 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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Title: Political Order in Changing Societies by Samuel P. Huntington ISBN: 0300011717 Publisher: Yale Univ Pr Pub. Date: December, 1969 List Price(USD): $22.00 |
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Title: Comparative Historical Analysis in the Social Sciences by James Mahoney, Dietrich Rueschemeyer ISBN: 0521016452 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 10 February, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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