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Informationen zum Autor 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). Klappentext This book explores how global capitalism has reconfigured state-market relations, and how interactions among capital, labor and consumption threaten global democracy. Zusammenfassung This book explores how global capitalism has reconfigured state-market relations! and how interactions among capital! labor and consumption threaten global democracy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.
