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Neoliberalism, Global Corporations and Democracy
The viability of western democracy is now being put to a severe test: can the economic crisis be tackled in a way that recognizes the situation of the great majority of the population, or must the interests of the banks who caused the crisis in the first place through their irresponsible use of secondary markets always be privileged?
The Intellectual and Political Legacy of David Marquand: Introduction
This article introduces a special issue of The Political Quarterly, which celebrates the life and work of David Marquand. The articles in this collection concentrate on historiography, the tension between liberalism and socialism, political economy, communitarianism, the tension between loyalty to organisations and to values, as well as Marquand's contribution to practical politics.
Non amato ma inevitabile il ritorno al neocorporativismo
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How Europe’s Political Parties Abandoned Openness-and Left Populism to Fill the Void
Western parties stopped defending openness decades ago—now populists dominate a fight no one else dares to enter. The last time large numbers of western European parties actively promoted both liberal and internationalist causes was the 1970s, though there was a strong flurry of internationalism in the 1990s.
E se la vittoria di Trump fosse un’occasione per l’Europa?
Ayuda Buscar en la ayuda Buscar en la ayuda E se la vittoria di Trump fosse
un’occasione per l’Europa? Autores: Colin Crouch Localización: MicroMega, ISSN 0394-7378, Nº. 1, 2025 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Fine del sogno europeo?) Idioma: italiano Texto completo no disponible (Saber más ...) Resumen “Fine del sogno europeo?”. Colin Crouch per l'”A più voci”
David Marquand and the Dilemmas of Political Organisation
Starting from David Marquand's personal conflicts between loyalty to values and to a political party, this article explores more general examples in Marquand's writings of clashes between commitment to values and finding appropriate organisational forms in which these can be embedded.
the Tories' road to perdition
Behind the Conservatives’ obsession with sending asylum-seekers to Africa is a politics of never-ending scapegoating. Outside observers may well be perplexed by the British Conservative Party tearing itself apart over plans to send a small proportion of irregular asylum-seekers to live in Rwanda. The case can be better understood if one stands the public argument on its head. That argument runs as follows.
Neoliberalism: still to shrug off its mortal coil
In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since. The past decade or so has seen some steps forward in the desperately needed project of making capitalism fit for society, but there have also been backward steps.
Colin Crouch, author at Social Europe
In 2011 Colin Crouch’s The Strange Non-death of Neoliberalism appeared to acclaim. Its author reflects on a shifting landscape since. In these crisis times there is a premium on utopian thinking—but also practical proposals and the power resources to make change real. Reversing the backlash against globalization requires active politics in two opposite directions: the strengthening of democracy beyond the level of the nation state; and strenuous efforts at local economic development.
The Dark Heart of Today's Conservative Party
MANY CONSERVATIVES deny the importance of climate change—or at least sabotage most measures seriously to confront it—while committing themselves to abolishing inheritance taxes, so that they can maintain their estates intact for the future. A future that they are content to see rendered uninhabitable. What is the point of ensuring the wealth of heirs while not caring about the state of the world in which they will have to live?
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The Tories won’t recover until they face up to the disaster of Brexit
How the Tories broke neoliberalism
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Utopians against capitalism
In these crisis times there is a premium on utopian thinking—but also practical proposals and the power resources to make change real.
Democracy and the Coronavirus
Is an alert civil society an effective antidote to the cynical manipulation that mars contemporary democracy? Those of us who have argued that it is will soon face a stiff test of our predictions. Not only are vast numbers of citizens deeply interested in the struggle against the coronavirus, but bonds of community and neighbourhood have been strengthened by our solidarity during the lockdown. Civil society has rarely been stronger.
What counts as work?
Employment contracts are by their nature asymmetrical. Although in principle contracts are made between two free and equal parties, when an employee signs one they enter into an unequal relationship. Work can be a source of identity, a prerequisite for social inclusion, and a marker of status and independence; historically, the employment contract has been contrasted with slavery, bondage and other forms of servitude.
Boris Johnson e Matteo Salvini, i leader che pretendono di parlare a nome di tutti
Tra il nuovo Primo ministro britannico Boris Johnson e Matteo Salvini ci sono considerevoli somiglianze. Sono entrambi personaggi di spicco nel recente stile “populista” della politica di destra. In passato, hanno avuto entrambi una carriera nel giornalismo. Come il loro idolo e collega cosiddetto populista, Donald Trump, hanno avuto entrambi complicate storie coniugali. Tra loro vi sono anche altre somiglianze di maggior conto, come pure differenze importanti.
Market Economy: The Superrich Endanger Democracy
It's easy to influence politics with a lot of money, and civil society is often just a nuisance. In the U.S., the problem is everywhere, but Europe is catching up. 5. Juni 2019, 10:42 Uhr Besucher einer Messe für Luxusuhren in der Schweiz © Adam Berry/Getty Images Lesen Sie diesen Text auf Deutsch There are two main reasons why many observers are beginning to question the assumption -- previously taken for granted -- that capitalism and democracy are firm allies.
Europe beyond neoliberalism
‘The owl of Minerva takes wing at twilight’, wrote Hegel. We only understand something when we are about to lose it. This ought to be the motto of the British people, as they get ready to abandon the European Union. And not just because in the UK we are about to find ourselves alone, without trade agreements with our neighbours and with all those other countries – like Canada and Japan – with whom the EU has regulated and organized relations.
Collective responses to digital neofeudalism
How has the digital dream of the 1990s – equality, freedom of expression and accessibility for everyone – turned into the constantly surveilled dystopia that many observers comment on today? New media expert Evgeny Morozov and sociologist Colin Crouch discussed this digital dilemma at the recent Lector in Fabula festival, in conversation with journalist Marina Lalovic.
Reversing The Globalisation Backlash
Reversing the backlash against globalization requires active politics in two opposite directions: the strengthening of democracy beyond the level of the nation state; and strenuous efforts at local economic development. In The Globalization Paradox Dani Rodrik argued that we have a choice among democracy, national sovereignty and hyper-globalization, a trilemma, and that we could have any two of these but not all three.
Why The Left Must Resist Wanting A Piece Of The Xenophobic Action
Since 2008 the left around the advanced world has dreamed of a popular uprising against the neoliberal elite that brought us the financial crash. Now that uprising has come, but it has been almost entirely captured by a far right mobilizing hostility against immigrants, the European Union, other forms of international co-operation, globalization and foreigners in general.
Un equilibrio fra le tutele e il mercato
Chi vuole più mercato deve volere anche più politiche sociali e regolamentazione dei mercati. È questa la lezione paradossale della storia del capitalismo. Il mercato, nel suo incedere creativo e imprenditoriale, provoca anche danni, fa vittime, lo «scarto», di cui il Santo Padre ha parlato nell’intervista al Sole. E «scarto» vuol dire spreco di risorse umane e fisiche.
Brexit and the long, baffling goodbye
In a summer rife with Brexit drama, Boris Johnson encapsulated the mood of things when he resigned, with characteristic flair, from his post as foreign secretary. The Brexit “dream is dying,” he wrote in his July 9 letter to Prime Minister Theresa May, some two years after Britain voted to leave the European Union. Johnson was one of several pro-Brexit ministers and senior politicians to resign after May’s plans for a soft Brexit were adopted.
Quei sovranisti così amici e così nemici
Davvero è una strana solidarietà quella dell’«internazionale xenofoba». I populisti della destra italiana e i loro amici ungheresi - ad esempio - hanno interessi totalmente opposti. I primi insistono perché l’Unione europea imponga ai paesi dell’Europa centrale l’obbligo di aiutare Italia e Grecia con i profughi che arrivano sulle loro coste. L’uomo forte di Budapest, Viktor Orbán, ha invece ottenuto un ampio consenso proprio sul rifiuto di tale obbligo. Sono avversari tra loro, dunque.
Cryptocurrencies: Commodity Dynamics and Cartelization
Bitcoin and the other altcoins now have more “experts” than perhaps any other market. I am no such “expert”: I am neither a cryptographer nor a computer programmer. I am a currency and commodity trader of thirty-plus years, and I approach the cryptocurrency market from that perspective. The cryptocurrency market cannot easily be dismissed, despite the fact that several high-profile people and institutions have called it a fraud, a Ponzi scheme, and a scam.
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Colin Crouch: "La Brexit e un Paese ostaggio della nostalgia"
Com’è possibile che un paese “maturo” e con una buona reputazione delle sue istituzioni pubbliche, butti via i rapporti economici che ha costruito in 45 anni con grandi parti del mondo, senza aver alcun progetto chiaro per costruirne di nuovi?
Riddle: When Is A Chlorinated Chicken Better Than A Regulated Banana?
Answer: When the chicken has been accepted in an across-the-table negotiation, and the banana regulation has been agreed among a group of partners on the same side of the table. If you grasped that riddle, you will be ready for this one: When does submission to a rule constitute an offence against national sovereignty? Answer: When one has shared in making the rule.
Between mutation and marginalisation: the impending crisis of the centre-right in western democracies
The centre-right as a coherent set of principles is in serious danger of marginalization as political competition in western democracies realigns between closure and openness to the outside world. The first round of the French presidential election saw for the first time in history the candidates of the two big political families (the Gaullist centre-right and the socialist centre-left) failing to advance to the second round.
The new political antagonism
Behind the intense conflict between globalisation and the new stirring of nationalism across much of the world stands that old, 18th century struggle between the values of the ancien régime and those of the Enlightenment. Donald Trump, Islamic State, Vladimir Putin, the Leave campaigners, Marine Le Pen and others do not all like each other, but they all have problems with globalisation—problems that go far beyond the economy. Some of their concerns are widely shared.
Developing civic activism in Northern Ireland
Paul Braithwaite (Building Change Trust) and Allan Leonard (Northern Ireland Foundation) join Kelly McBride from the oD youth newsroom at the World Forum for Democracy to talk about enabling civic activism in Northern Ireland. VIDEO openDemocracy is at this year's World Forum for Democracy, exploring the relationship between education and democracy with a citizens’ newsroom. Find out more here.
How do you think about the future, now?
Discussions about the long-term future often don’t seem politically convenient for the people elected to represent us. When you’re working on an election cycle, the ever present spectre of securing future electoral success incentivises decision makers to keep in step with public opinion, instead of raising the issues we must address for the future of people, society and planet. Too often we elect people so many of us are dissatisfied with and hope they’ll do the right thing.
In the twenty-first century, do we need to rethink representation?
Despite the fact that our societies, laws and political climates have changed immensely over the last century, the concept of democratic representation has remained fundamentally the same in most nations. Is representation outdated, and should we rethink it?
What did you learn today?
The openDemocracy youth newsroom asked young participants at the World Forum for Democracy to share what inspired them, and what lessons they will be taking back home. Acknowledging that solutions cannot be devised in isolation, and complex realities must be considered, this year’s World Forum for Democracy began with high energy and vibrant exchanges of ideas on education, equality and governance.
Buying Time: the delayed crisis of democratic capitalism
Recorded on 20 October 2014 at New Theatre, East Building The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started. Wolfgang Streeck is the Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Society at Cologne and author of Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism.
Is segregation on the increase in the UK?
Can mixed communities and a shared society in the UK become recognised as a desirable objective, supported by a strategy and policy framework? Segregation can be an emotive subject. Claims that we are "sleepwalking into segregation" or the refusal to discuss such contentious issues at all because they give the Far Right the "oxygen of publicity," are not helpful.
Next steps in the democracy argument
Any engagement approach not focused on getting the widest possible range of voices, and creating multiple environments in which they feel comfortable will be no improvement on the current system. In the time of Trump, Brexit, and growing populism around Europe, it is difficult to be a democratic reformer. We campaign for participation, evidence-based decision-making, and calm deliberation, at a time when those things seem farther from our political discourse than they have ever been.
The problem with politicians and democracy…
"Opening up new forms of political participation to hear the voices of the politically marginalised is critical for the well being of our polity." Interview in the run-up to the World Forum for Democracy 2016. oD: There is a lot of talk about democracy at the local level – what did you find out in Democracy Matters about what citizens in these areas of Britain, north and south, make of the decisions being made in their name?
Educating for democracy
"In education our duty is to... help people cultivate a desire to seek out truth and separate it from lies. This needs open debate, not closure." Interview in the run-up to the World Forum for Democracy 2016. openDemocracy (oD): Many on left and the right who voted for Brexit hoped for a renewal of ‘national sovereignty’. How do you see the space the UK occupies post-Brexit? Will a more substantive European democracy emerge without us?
Israel’s right to exist
First a mea culpa. Mary Davis accuses me of making an ‘incorrect and snide’ assertion that she wrote her first piece to support the Jewish establishment’s attack on Corbyn. I see how it can be read that way. What I wrote was “The issue is: just why Mary Davis is writing this piece now?” and went on to detail the coordinated, no-holds barred onslaught alleging that antisemitism that has been taking place.
The familiar axes of politics are changing, with momentous consequences
From the time of the French Revolution, mass politics has revolved around two core conflicts: that between preferences for more or less economic inequality; and that between conservative, authoritarian values and liberal ones. The main divisions among political parties in most countries fit into this frame, but we have become accustomed to seeing the former, raising issues of redistributive taxation, the welfare state, and the role of trade unions, as the senior partner.
Kataloniens Unabhängigkeit: Die gespaltene Gesellschaft
Radiointerview mit einem deutschen Sender nach den Regionalwahlen in Katalonien vor zwei Wochen. „Ich wollte noch auf etwas hinweisen“, sage ich der Moderatorin beim Vorgespräch. „In den deutschen Nachrichten heißt es, die Befürworter der Unabhängigkeit hätten die Wahl gewonnen.“ – „Genau.“ – „Das stimmt so nicht.
Katja Petrowskaja über ihr Bild der Woche
Wie waren wir damals? Das russische Kultur-Portal colta.ru hat das Festival „Insel der 90er Jahre in Moskau“ gestartet und die Facebook-Gemeinschaft dazu aufgerufen, eigene Fotos aus dieser Zeit zu posten.
„The Tribe“ im Kino: Auf der anderen Seite von Gut und Böse
Über die Gangster in den Ländern der ehemaligen Sowjetunion erzählt man sich viele Geschichten. Eine davon geht so: Zu ihren Treffen bestellten sie mit Vorliebe taubstumme Prostituierte. Sie konnten sich auf diese Weise vergnügen und dabei unbeschwert über die Geschäfte reden. Folklore dieser Art fasziniert den ukrainischen Regisseur Miroslav Slaboshpitsky. Er hat mit „The Tribe“ („Plemya“) einen ganzen Film über taubstumme junge Menschen gemacht.
Großdemonstration gegen TTIP: Verhandlungen im Geheimdienst-Milieu
Die Verhandlungsführer heißen Ignacio Garcia Bercero und Dan Mullaney. Sie klären solche Details mitsamt den zukünftigen Grundzügen des transatlantischen Handels unter sich, bevor das Europäische Parlament und der Europäische Rat am Ende zustimmen sollen, um das TTIP-Abkommen in Kraft zu setzen. Wann das allerdings geschehen soll, ist noch nicht bekannt. Nur dass es noch in der Amtszeit des amerikanischen Präsidenten Barack Obama dazu kommen wird, scheint ausgeschlossen.
Literaturnobelpreis für Swetlana Alexijewitsch
Die erste Frage muss lauten: Ist das, wofür Swetlana Alexijewitsch an diesem Donnerstag den Nobelpreis für Literatur zuerkannt bekommen hat, denn überhaupt Literatur? Ein klares Ja. Die Frage wurde schon vor zwei Jahren, anlässlich der Verleihung des Friedenspreises des Deutschen Buchhandels an die weißrussische Autorin debattiert.
Giannis Varoufakis fordert in Berlin Euro-Demokratisierung
Auf den ersten Blick sah es nach einem Triumph aus: Giannis Varoufakis sorgte in der Berliner Volksbühne für ein übervolles Haus, und seine Forderung, den Euro und dessen Institutionen wieder zu demokratisieren, riss das Publikum zu einem Szenenapplaus nach dem anderen hin.
Vor der Verkündung des Literaturnobelpreisträgers
Doch nun entbrennt jedes Jahr im Oktober ein neuer Meinungskrieg in literarischen Kreisen über die Favoriten. Und diesmal wird er zusätzlich dadurch verschärft, dass bei den britischen Buchmachern die weißrussische Autorin Swetlana Alexijewitsch an der Spitze steht, die durch ihre atemraubend dramatisierten Interviewbücher über die Folgen des Zerfalls der Sowjetunion bekannt geworden ist.
Ausstellung im Städel: „Dialog der Meisterwerke“
Der größte Nachteil von Museen: dass in ihnen so viele Bilder hängen. Was wird nicht alles unternommen, um den Besucher darüber hinwegzutrösten! Cafés, Kinderprogramme, Shops, in denen man bedruckte Halstücher und Kühlschrankmagneten mit Van Gogh darauf erwerben kann, Museumsnächte. Nichts davon rührt an den Kern des Problems, den Paul Valéry einst so bezeichnete: Jedes Meisterwerk tötet alle anderen, es will für sich und nicht in riesigen Ansammlungen betrachtet werden.
Wie es mit dem Münchener Konzertsaal vorangeht
Fürchtet die CSU den Verlust der Regierungsmacht in Bayern? In drei Jahren stehen Landtagswahlen an. Von dem neuen Münchner Konzertsaal, den Ministerpräsident Horst Seehofer versprochen hat, soll dann so viel stehen, dass er in jedem Fall zu Ende gebaut werden muss. Die Staatsregierung strebe die „Unumkehrbarkeit im Laufe dieser Legislaturperiode“ an, legt Kunstminister Ludwig Spaenle im Gespräch mit dieser Zeitung dar.
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