Braucht Demokratie Wirtschaftswachstum?

Fritzsche, Erik; Vogler, Anselm

doi:10.1007/978-3-658-20848-6_4

Die Demokratie Und Ihre Defekte 2018

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-20848-6_4

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Braucht Demokratie Wirtschaftswachstum?

Erik Fritzsche

Anselm Vogler

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Sustainable consumption and the power of economic growth: exploring alternatives to the growth-dependency narrative

Gumbert

Mamut

Fuchs

et al. 2022

Consumption and Society

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Increasing shares of the sustainable consumption literature postulate the need for a focus on limits to consumption as a basis for achieving absolute reductions in resource use. After all, improvements in the sustainability of consumption expected from technological innovation and efficiency gains have been eaten up by rebound effects, to date. The decoupling that proponents of green growth were hoping for is nowhere in sight. However, discussions about limits to consumption immediately meet opposition from political representatives, powerful associations and industry lobby groups alike. Specifically, opponents claim that we simply cannot afford a scaling back of consumption and the economic growth it is supposed to drive due to the growth-dependent nature of our welfare systems. Such claims have become very dominant narratives that influence what societies deem ‘realistic’ and ‘possible’ regarding the politics of sustainable consumption, cementing the current status quo. It also shows that research on strong sustainable consumption governance, that is, governance pursuing a reduction in consumption levels and fundamental shift in consumption patterns (especially in the Global North), needs to target such claims head on, if existing paradigmatic barriers to a sustainability transition are to be overcome. But what counter-narrative(s) can scholars offer? To identify potential elements of such counter-narrative(s) for consumption scholars to draw on, the present article investigates what answers critical sustainability research, in particular the degrowth literature, has in stock regarding the affordability of reductions in consumption-driven growth from the perspective of democratic welfare states.

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Sustainable consumption and the power of economic growth: exploring alternatives to the growth-dependency narrative

Gumbert

Mamut

Fuchs

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Consumption and Society

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Politische Gesellschaftsgestaltung heute – sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretische Erwägungen angesichts von Transformationsvorhaben wie der „Energiewende“

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Großvorhaben politischer Gesellschaftsgestaltung wie die „Energiewende“ können Anlass für eine sehr grundsätzlich ansetzende sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretische Reflexion der Rolle des Staates in der Moderne sein. Auf dieser Linie werden für die Frage politischer Gesellschaftsgestaltung relevante Überlegungen aus der soziologischen Gesellschafts- und Sozialtheorie vorgestellt. Nach einer Erinnerung an die Nicht-Selbstverständlichkeit derart großangelegter politischer Gestaltungsambitionen werden mehrere einander überlagernde gravierende Limitationen politischer Gestaltbarkeit von Vorhaben dieses Maßstabs aufgeführt: Das Komplexitätsprofil des relevanten gesellschaftlichen Geschehens; die funktional differenzierte und kapitalistische Ordnung der modernen Gesellschaft; Legitimitätsbedarfe in demokratischen politischen Ordnungen; Nationalstaaten unter Globalisierungsdruck.

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Braucht Demokratie Wirtschaftswachstum?

Cited by 2 publications

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Sustainable consumption and the power of economic growth: exploring alternatives to the growth-dependency narrative

Sustainable consumption and the power of economic growth: exploring alternatives to the growth-dependency narrative

Politische Gesellschaftsgestaltung heute – sozial- und gesellschaftstheoretische Erwägungen angesichts von Transformationsvorhaben wie der „Energiewende“

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