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represents a rejection of this complacent orientation in favor of what Ian Shapiro terms a ‘‘problem-driven’’ form of political ...

6 Conclusion ................................................................................................................... ...

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and income, the political power of large business corporations, the role of markets, and the rights of property. 2 A fundamental ...

Any claims to democratic control are largely window dressing (Marx and Engels 1955 ; Lenin 1949 ; DomhoV 1986). Much ink has bee ...

the political calculus of public oYcials includes that they will be penalized for poor economic performance and will be rewarde ...

and resources, but their special political access depends on the privileged position itself. Even given these two kinds of advan ...

2 Capitalist Democracies as They Might Be ...................................................................................... ...

A useful starting proposition for analyzing the United States, as well as other democracies, is that the broader the politically ...

Men of property were to be given political advantages—political inXuence greater than their proportion in the population would c ...

Still, even if the interests of the propertied did, to some degree, overlap with the rights the regime was to secure and the per ...

government—would force disagreements among the propertied to be played out publicly, as the protagonists would seek public suppo ...

are to rule, property rights can be protected, other rights secured, and the permanent interests of the community served. Even i ...

There are several problems here. First, the extent of stock ownership by ordinary citizens would have to be signiWcant if they a ...

consistent with democratic capitalism. Moreover, such decentralized forms of ownership provide a counterweight to the state as d ...

capital, as Madison hoped it would, if there is a secure and conWdent middle class. Why is this so? The principal source of inco ...