A Fearful Asymmetry: Can American Democracy Survive Global Hegemony

Politics A scholar asks , ‘ Can democracy survive the Internet ? ’

Housing, Global Finance, and American Hegemony: Building Conservative Politics One Brick at a Time

How did US housing markets articulate both with global financial flows and US domestic politics? During the long 1990s, the US economy benefited from a system of global financial arbitrage in which the US economy as a whole borrowed short term, at low interest rates, from the rest of the world, while lending back long term at higher returns. A temporarily self-sustaining housing market boom in ...

Can England's NHS survive?

n engl j med 369;1 nejm.org july 4, 2013 1 a crisis that can be resolved only by altering the fundamental principle on which it was founded — provision of funding from general taxation, with care being free at the point of use. Although the criticism was sparked by a February report on an inquiry into shortcomings at one hospital,1 the problems originated in 2010, when two profound forces were ...

Legitimacy and American Democracy

Can Energy Democracy Thrive in a Non-democracy?

This paper argues that energy democracy could manifest in terms of public engagement at the community level, free of state intervention, government fostering, and donor support, even in locations where governments have been in flux from a democracy to a non-democracy. In currently non-democratic Thailand, for example, public engagement on community energy transitions had occurred, were sustaine...