Understanding these trends requires a focus on the nature of contemporary capitalism – and in particular its relationships to the state, and to democratic politics. We focus on three kinds of research ...

Robert W. McChesney was a leading voice and a precious colleague in the battle for a more democratic media system, and a more ...

It ought to, but probably won’t, make some of the more well-intentioned supporters of stakeholder capitalism (there are a few) think again, not only to protect our democracy, but also ...

His basic thesis is that the link between capitalism and democracy has become attenuated: “Capitalism has become more responsive to what we want as individual purchasers of goods, but democracy has ...

Martin Wolf believes that capitalism and democracy are like an old married couple. Neither partner can cope alone. Without democratic checks and balances, capitalism grows greedy and corrupt: the ...

By Reynolds Antwi AGYAPONGThe recent advancement in artificial intelligence (AI) has raised several important conversations across different areas of the human experience.Historians such as Yuval Noah ...

In a political climate that has looked to the far right, it is not the progressive voice that is being sought to counter that.

This course is capped. In 2023/2024, all Department of Government students who wished to take the course were able to do so. Compatibility and incompatibility of capitalism and democracy; ...

The second half has a macro-level focus that shows how capitalism’s generation of growing income and wealth inequality impels the employer class (a small numerical minority) to use their money ...