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Democracy and Capitalism: Collective Action Theory and Structural Analysis
Author(s) -
Hadenius Axel
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
scandinavian political studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.65
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9477
pISSN - 0080-6757
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9477.1988.tb00357.x
Subject(s) - capitalism , democracy , collective action , action (physics) , economic system , political science , neoclassical economics , democratic theory , positive economics , epistemology , connection (principal bundle) , sociology , economics , mathematics , law , philosophy , physics , geometry , quantum mechanics , politics
The problem which I address in this paper consists in the connection between democracy and capitalism. I begin by specifying a model of actor theory which indicates a number of methods of achieving co‐operation between actors I then review different structural theories of democracy which link up with these methods. Against this background I then seek to clarify—and to some extent evaluate—the arguments which different researchers have adduced in support of the thesis that capitalism is a prerequisite for democracy.