Guoguang Wu (British Columbia University of Victoria)

Globalization against Democracy

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Produktbeschreibung

This book explores how global capitalism has reconfigured state-market relations, and how interactions among capital, labor and consumption threaten global democracy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9781316640753
• ISBN-10: 1316640752
• Artikelnr.: 47351239

Autorenporträt

Guoguang Wu is Professor of Political Science, History, and Chair in China and Asia-Pacific Relations at the University of Victoria, British Columbia. He previously served as an editor for the People's Daily in Beijing, and participated in political reform of China in the 1980s in the capacity of a policy advisor and speechwriter to the national leadership. He is the author and editor of eight books, including China's Party Congress: Power, Legitimacy, and Institutional Manipulation (Cambridge, 2015).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction; 2. Capitalism in institutional reconfiguration by
globalization: a theoretical framework; 3. Institutional oligopoly and
embedded coordination: concentrative movements of capital; 4. Human
(im)mobility, social poverty and political inability: 'economic man' on the
segmented labor market; 5. The shaping of the caged anarchy: standardized
consumption, atomized consumers; 6. Global inequalities challenge
democracy: sociopolitical impacts of transnational stratification; 7.
Conclusion.