Capitalism, Crisis and Democracy : Theory and Conflict in Portugal's Dawn of Decline / Jonas Van Vossole.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Van Vossole, Jonas, author.

Series:

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 392.

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026.

Historical Materialism Book Series ; 392

Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2026

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Contemporary History.

History.

Philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Theory and Conflict in Portugal's Dawn of Decline

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2026.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

How do crises reveal the contradictions of liberal democracy and why does the left present itself as the failed last guardian of liberal capitalism? Capitalism, Crisis and Democracy takes you inside Portugal’s political upheaval to address these urgent questions. Drawing on democratic theory, Marxist political economy, and discourse analysis, the book shows how austerity hollowed out democratic legitimacy and created space for the far right. Through interviews with policymakers, trade unionists, and protesters, it reveals how competing democratic visions clashed during crisis. This book challenges depoliticised models of democracy and offers a conflict-centred alternative grounded in social struggle.

Contents:

Introduction

1 Democracy in Portugal: Context and Crisis

1 The Making of Portuguese Democracy

2 The Political Economy of Austerity

3 Democracy as a Historical and Ideological Product

2 ‘Crisis’ in the Transition to Political Science

1 The Scientific Concept of Crisis

2 Dialectics and Critique

3 Crisis, Science, and History

4 Crisis, Science and the Political

5 Crisis, Critique and Political Science Now

3 Democratic Theory: History and Crisis

1 Schools and Waves of Democracy

2 The Crisis of Democracy and Its Alternatives

3 Crisis of the Alternatives and a Restart of History

4 Democracy in Today’s Crisis

4 Democratic Austerity

1 The Context: Three Ways to Read the Crisis

2 Elements of Austerity–Hegemony

3 Critical Discourse Analysis of Two Policymakers

4 An Austerity Definition of Democracy in Crisis

5 Democratic Alternatives

1 From Crisis to Protest: An Overview

2 Questioning the Protestors

3 From Protest to Democratic Alternatives

4 Contemporary Socialist Perspectives

6 Summary and Final Remarks

Postscript: From Pandemic to the Rise of the Global Right

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Van Vossole, Jonas Capitalism, Crisis and Democracy

ISBN:

9789004766235

OCLC:

1607918279

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004766235 DOI