Pub Date : 2020-11-19DOI: 10.5007/175-7984.2020v19n45p178
Roger Laureano
The article seeks to analyze the possibility of reconciling the Weberian concept of charismaticauthority with contemporary democracies and with leaders who do not break with institutionalnorms. From Weber’s exegetical analysis, we arrive at a definition of charismatic authoritythat is based primarily on the affective relationship of the followers with the leader becauseof his extraordinary character. Contesting other interpretations, we argue that this definition iscompatible with democratic leaders without losing the efficiency of its application to subversivecases. Finally, in addition to Weber, we present some possible applications of the concept basedon three ideal-typical elements: intensity, diffusion and direction of the charism. This model caninclude authoritarian and anti-authoritarian charisms and explain the behavior of followers inmeasures that involve their leaders.
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{"title":"Obituário: Guenther Roth","authors":"Stephen Kalberg","doi":"10.5007/175-7984.2020v19n45p242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5007/175-7984.2020v19n45p242","url":null,"abstract":"Obrituário para o sociólogo Guenther Roth, escrito por Stephen Kalberg.","PeriodicalId":47847,"journal":{"name":"Politics & Society","volume":"19 1","pages":"242-245"},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2020-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44081230","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220962655
W. Brown
This lecture reflects on the difficulties of democracy in Erik Olin Wright’s democratic socialist vision, one he elaborates in How to Be an Anti-capitalist in the 21st Century and Envisioning Real Utopias. It rejects the notion that radical democratic projects in cities, workplaces, and cooperatives can simply be scaled up for purposes of national or postnational political rule. It reflects on selected requirements of democracy apart from democratic governing institutions and practices: from democratic political culture, to education and accountability, to handling globalized powers and problems such as finance, capital, and the climate crisis. The lecture concludes ambivalently, suggesting that democracy may be both necessary and impossible in realizing a politically free, socially just, and ecologically sustainable future.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220962646
I. Katznelson
This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), explores the possibility of liberal socialism. Wright sought to rescue both liberalism and socialism from their demonstrated capacity for depredation. His legacy challenges reformers to proceed with the audacity of real, and realistic, utopianism together with an awareness that, unfortunately, the obverse of an appealing utopianism always beckons.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220966074
Greta R. Krippner
Erik Olin Wright’s scholarship is often considered to be formed by two entirely disjoint projects represented by his early work on class analysis and his later writings on “real utopias.” This essay uses Michael Burawoy’s recent formulation of the “two Marxisms” thesis as a foil to argue for the continuities rather than discontinuities in the body of work produced by Wright. More particularly, the critical spirit of the real utopias project infused Wright’s work on class analysis from its inception. It is further argued that the limitations Wright encountered in realizing those critical aims directly seeded the search in his later work for institutional design principles and an explicit articulation of normative values that could undergird alternatives to capitalism.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220962644
B. Santos
This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), considers Wright’s project of constructing and identifying real utopias. It confronts a tension in Wright’s oeuvre, the question of th...
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Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220966075
M. Burawoy
Intended to capture the entangled history of Marxism, Alvin Gouldner’s two Marxisms also frame the intellectual biography of Erik Olin Wright. In the 1970s Wright’s Scientific and Critical Marxisms were joined, but later they came apart as each developed its own autonomous trajectory. Erik’s Scientific Marxism was the program of class analysis that first brought him international fame. Begun in graduate school, it tailed off in the last two decades of his life, when it played second fiddle to the Critical Marxism of the Real Utopias Project that Erik began in the early 1990s.
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Pub Date : 2020-11-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220962656
F. Block
This essay, written in memory of Erik Olin Wright (1947–2019), outlines nine characteristics of a future socialism. It elaborates socialism as a set of processes and institutional arrangements that would open the way to a society that is radically more democratic, more just, and more sustainable than the existing order.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220945527
Erez Maggor
This article contributes to an emerging literature on the “neo” or “entrepreneurial” developmental state that emphasizes the role of innovation policy in promoting the structural transformation of industry. It finds further evidence that supports this approach and advances it by making two unique contributions. First, it highlights an essential yet underappreciated feature of contemporary innovation policy: the state’s capacity to condition public assistance and discipline private firms that do not adhere to government guidelines. These capacities are necessary to guarantee that the benefits of public investment in innovation—the social and economic spillovers—are not appropriated by private actors but shared more broadly within society. Second, it highlights that politics—reflected in the relations between innovation agencies and key social actors—represents an important causal factor in both the formation and subsequent transformation of these institutional capacities. These points are illustrated through a historical analysis of a crucial case: the state-led development of Israel’s thriving high-tech sector.
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Pub Date : 2020-09-16DOI: 10.1177/0032329220958662
A. Przeworski
Should one read Marx today? Which of his theories survive the test of time and which should be abandoned? This article reviews four of Marx’s themes: the quest for material abundance, the compatibility of capitalism and democracy, the role of the state, and the theory of the dynamics of capitalism.
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