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Hegemon Global political institutions Polities Overlap and do not Politically Saturate a Territory Democracy Democracy and modernity Redefining democracy The development of democracy Conclusions 5. Violence Introduction Developing the Ontology of Violence Modernity and Violence Path Dependency in Trajections of Violence Global Conclusions 6. Civil societies Introduction Theorising Civil Society Modernity and Civil Society Civil Society Projects Global Civil Societies and Waves Examples of waves Conclusions 7. Regimes of complex inequality Introduction Beyond Class Regimes Gender Regimes Ethnic Regimes Further Regimes of Complex Inequalities Disability Sexual orientation Intersecting Regimes of Complex Inequality Conclusions 8. Varieties of modernity Introduction Neoliberal and Social Democratic Varieties of Modernity Path Dependency at the Economy/Polity Nexus? Welfare provision Conclusions on welfare Employment regulation Inequality Conclusions on political economy Path Dependency at the Violence Nexus Modernity and path dependency Indicators Development, inequality and violence Gendered violence Path dependency of the violence nexus in OECD countries Violence, economic inequality and the polity/economy nexus Conclusions on violence Gender Regime Public and domestic gender regimes Development and the public gender regime Domestic and public gender regimes and gender inequality Varieties of public gender regimes Democracy and Inequality Conclusions 9. Measuring progress Introduction Economic Development Equality Economic inequality Global economic inequality Beyond the household Economic inequalities and flows Economic inequalities in summary Inequalities in non-economic domains Democracy Human Rights Human Development, Well-Being and Capabilities Key Indicator Sets: What Indicators; What Underlying Concepts of Progress? Extending the Frameworks and Indicators of Progress: Where do Environmental Sustainability and Violence Fit? Environmental sustainability Violence Achievement of Visions of Progress: Comparing Neoliberalism and Social Democracy Economic development: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Equality: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Human rights: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Human development, well-being and capabilities: neoliberalism vs. social democracy Trade offs or complementary? Conclusions 10. Comparative paths through modernity: neoliberalism and social democracy Introduction Political Economy Introduction US Sweden UK Ireland Conclusions Violence US Sweden UK Ireland Conclusion Gender Transformations: The Emergence of Employed Women as the New Champions of Social Democracy Employed women as the new champions of social democracy Dampeners and Catalysts of Economic Growth: War and Gender Regime Transformations Conclusions 11. Contested futures Introduction Financial and Economic Crisis 2007-9 Contesting Hegemons and the Future of the World 12. Conclusions Introduction The Challenge of Complex Inequalities and Globalization to Social Theory

all kinds. The book is also a good starting point for discussions questioning the nature or possibility of social progress.



Enabling innovative understandings of age-old complexities through brand-new empirical and normative questions and answers, this book will and should affect all research in social sciencesMieke VerlooRadboud University Nijmegen and the IWM, Institute for Human Sciences, Vienna



Having read her book, one can't help but see what was thought to be clear in new ways. Intuitively we can agree with Prigogine (1997, p. 188) when he says that while art is an individual enterprise... science is a collective enterprise and one which provokes creativity rather than conventional treatments. Globalization and Inequalities is an impressive example of creativity realized on the one hand and a provocation to further creativity on the other...a major accomplishment Devorah Kalekin-FishmanInternational Sociology Review of Books