{"product_id":"inequality-and-the-labyrinths-of-democracy-by-goran-therborn-9781788738996","title":"Inequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eClassical liberalism regarded universal suffrage as a mortal threat to property. So what explains the advent of liberal democracy, and how stable today is the marriage between representative government and the continued rule of capital?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAcross every continent, people think inequality is a ‘very big problem’. Even the Davos Economic Forum and the OECD say they are worried. And yet capitalist states don’t respond. How has democracy been transformed from a popular demand for social justice into a professional power game?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTo dispel our worsening political malaise, Göran Therborn argues, requires a ‘disruptive democracy’ of radical social movements, such as the climate strike. \u003cem\u003eInequality and the Labyrinths of Democracy\u003c\/em\u003e opens with a major new essay mapping the social fractures of the present era. There is also a compact historical survey of worldwide patterns of democratization and a landmark analysis of the OECD economies, ‘The Rule of Capital and the Rise of Democracy’, originally published in \u003cem\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/em\u003e and collected here in book form for the first time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Allen \u0026 Unwin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47463250395372,"sku":"9781788738996","price":38.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781788738996-inequality-and-the-labyrinths-of-democracy.jpg?v=1775030435","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/inequality-and-the-labyrinths-of-democracy-by-goran-therborn-9781788738996","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}