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Logics of Legitimacy
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Logics of Legitimacy

by Margaret Stout
September 2017
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
325 pages
11h 32m
English
Routledge
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244 ◾  Logics of Legitimacy
us, Dahl (1998) asserts there is an inherent tension between capitalist mar-
ket economies and democracy. e assumption is that the unequal distribution of
wealth and privilege are hindrances to the desired democratic social state (George
1929). Similarly, Addams suggests industry reveals the tensions between the demo-
cratic ideal and capitalism: “It is in reality a clash between … socialized form and
individualistic ends” (1964, 139). Capitalism hinders the deepening of democracy
beyond polyarchy (rule by the few), causing a thinning of democracy even as it
spreads to more countries through the globalizing economy (Dahl 1998). erefore,
the late capitalist market is one in which owners of the means of product
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