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Adam Przeworski is the Carroll and Milton Professor of Politics and (by courtesy) Economics at New York University. He is the author of many books, most recently Crises of Democracy and Why Bother With Elections?.
Leaders of the left abandoned the language of transformation in the 1980s—at a cost. Can it be regained?
The quality of state intervention in the economy depends on the quality of democratic institutions.
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