Defending Deep Democracy. Three elections - three surprises - three lessons

Hanappi, Hardy (2025): Defending Deep Democracy. Three elections - three surprises - three lessons.

Abstract

The goal of this paper is to use the experiences of three surprising election results in 1930, 1916 and 2024 to explain which lessons can be drawn for further development of humanity’s evolution. It turns out that deep changes in the organisation of self-governance will be needed to master the evolving crises of global capitalism, which, over the last years, has been morphing into authoritarian, global, absolute capitalism.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Democracy, Elections, Global Political Economy, Fascism
• Subjects: B - History of Economic Thought, Methodology, and Heterodox Approaches > B0 - General > B00 - General; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development; O - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth > O1 - Economic Development > O10 - General; P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P16 - Political Economy; P - Economic Systems > P1 - Capitalist Systems > P17 - Performance and Prospects

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