Why democracy matters

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Chapter 4 in Justice and Democracy, 2021, pp 117-141 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Chapter 4 tries to re-establish the credentials of political systems traditionally defined as democratic. It will be argued that the pursuit of greater social justice, as articulated in Part I, is most effectively pursued in societies that can be broadly defined as democratic. It traces arguments put for and against democratic political regimes from ancient to modern times, resulting in the particular institutional design of democratic polities characterising advanced western capitalist societies. I argue that the ways in which liberal democracies developed historically has mitigated against the progress of justice as the removal of capability inequalities due to entrenched class power asymmetries.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy; Sustainable Development Goals (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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