Capitalist Development and Democracy.

Bradshaw, York W.; Rueschemeyer, Dietrich; Stephens, Evelyne Huber; Stephens, John D.

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“…In a related study, Bernhard and Edgell (2022) found that a novel measure of civil society stock was associated with higher levels of democracy, increases in the level of democracy, and made democracies more resistant to downturns in democracy scores. They also confirmed that their findings on civil society were congruent with older class coalition theory in the second wave of comparative historical democratization research (Luebbert, 1991;Rueschemeyer et al, 1992) in a much larger global sample of cases. And in other research focused on backsliding, Yarwood (2016) found that an active civil society deters power grabs from incumbent presidents in Africa.…”

Section: The Centrality Of Civil Society Mobilization In Regime Changesupporting

confidence: 69%

Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021

Hellmeier

Bernhard

2023

Comparative Political Studies

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Mass mobilization (MM) is an important driver of political change. While some citizens organize in favor of more democratic institutions, others take to the streets to support an authoritarian status quo. This article introduces measures of pro-democratic and pro-autocratic MM using expert assessments for 179 polities from 1900–2021. The data allow us to trace patterns in MM over time, across regions and regime types. We use this new data to systematically analyze the relationship between both types of mobilization and regime change. We confirm the findings of the literature on contentious democratic politics, and our analysis of autocratic mobilization allows us to make sense of the controversy in the literature on “bad actors” in civil society. We show that MM in favor of autocracy negatively affects democracy, making a case for specifying the goals of the actors involved in contentious politics to more precisely understand their impact.

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Section: The Centrality Of Civil Society Mobilization In Regime Changesupporting

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Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021

Hellmeier

Bernhard

2023

Comparative Political Studies

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“…The classic comparative models of democratic deepening (Roberts 1998;Rueschemeyer et al, 1992) argue for going beyond the traditional institutionalist definition of democracy as competitive elections and the requisite civil and political freedoms to examining actual patterns of participation. This means in particular understanding the extent to which historically marginalized groups are politically effective, both in the electoral and the mobilizational/organizational sense.…”

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Parties, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening: Comparing India, Brazil and South Africa

Heller

2023

Studies in Indian Politics

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Despite being among the most successful democracies in the Global South, India, Brazil and South Africa have all recently experienced democratic crises. I argue that these democratic crises result from the formation of social coalitions that have been willing to subvert democratic institutions and practices in order to preserve or restore their social and economic privileges. In structural terms, these reactions are tied to the unresolved problem of the incorporation of popular classes. This problem has in turn been mediated by the balance between political and civil society. In India and South Africa that balance has favoured the dominance of mass-based nationalist parties that have thwarted democratic deepening. In Brazil, a more balanced relationship between civil society and political society has favoured the partial incorporation of the popular classes.

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“…Adam Smith is known as the "father of Capitalism" as he was the first one to advocate the unequal distribution of wealth among nations (Bradshaw et al, 1993). Capitalists tried to accumulate as much wealth as possible to increase their capital for further expanding the production of goods to expand their wealth even more.…”

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“…Capitalists tried to accumulate as much wealth as possible to increase their capital for further expanding the production of goods to expand their wealth even more. Capitalists did this to maximize their profits in the competitive market (Bradshaw et al, 1993;Esping-Andersen and Poulantzas, 1976). But in this process, they did not hesitate to exploit workers.…”

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Tracing the economics behind dynamic capabilities theory

Kapoor

Aggarwal

2020

IJIS

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to trace the evolution of dynamic capabilities theory in the primal theories of economics and strategic management. Then a comprehensive research framework is proposed to grapple with the dynamics of the contemporary global markets, incorporating the quintessential elements of the theory, i.e. absorptive capability, innovation capability and adoptive capability. Design/methodology/approach The paper is conceptual in nature. It tries to review various economic systems of the world since 1770s till the present era. It also evaluates various theories of international business against dynamic capabilities theory and thus proposes various propositions for future empirical testing. Findings The study has delineated various theories tracing in them the roots of dynamic capabilities. Capitalism, communism and socialism is explained to reach the present state of world economy. Various theories such as the theory of creative destruction, transaction-cost approach, resource-based view and knowledge-based view of the firm have been elaborated to identify their features and shortcomings. Finally, the contemporary theory of dynamic capabilities has been elucidated to integrate the shortcomings of the previous theories. A research framework has also been proposed to overcome the recent criticism of the dynamic capabilities theory of having under-specified constructs. Originality/value Very few studies have elaborated various economic systems and theories to trace the evolution of dynamic capabilities theory. Thus, this study is original in nature and the proposed research model is also novel which induces further empirical evidence as proposed by the authors.

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Capitalist Development and Democracy.

Cited by 13 publications

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Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021

Regime Transformation From Below: Mobilization for Democracy and Autocracy From 1900 to 2021

Parties, Civil Society and Democratic Deepening: Comparing India, Brazil and South Africa

Tracing the economics behind dynamic capabilities theory

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