practices are connected to the ?soft politics? of the crisis, which produce public consensus over neoliberal reforms such as … austerity and privatizations, and secure debt repayment from democratic interventions …

"In How Will Capitalism End? the acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that … confidence in the capitalist money economy has all but evaporated. Capitalism's shotgun marriage with democracy since 1945 is … acclaimed analyst of contemporary politics and economics Wolfgang Streeck argues that capitalism is now in a critical condition …

centre of the analysis is the changing relationship between capitalism and democracy, in Europe and elsewhere, and the … transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. He analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states …

distribution) when inequality is high. We argue that the latter finding corresponds to a system of political capitalism or captured … democracy, where a powerful economic elite cooperates with politicians and bureaucrats for their mutual benefit. …