Buying Time: The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism
 "In its best parts – when political passion connects with critical exposition of the facts and incisive argument – Streeck’s sweeping and empirically founded inquiry reminds one of Karl Marx’sEighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte." –JÜRGEN HABERMAS "Is electoral democracy compatible with the type of economic policies the EU – backed at a distance by Washington and Wall Street – wants to impose? This is the question posed by the Cologne-based sociologist Wolfgang Streeck in Buying Time, a book that is provoking debate in Germany." –SUSAN WATKINS, LONDON REVIEW OF BOOK S "Streeck has here provided an excellent and challenging account of the current state of relations between capitalism and democracy. His concept of a state whose democratic responsibilities to voters are required systematically to be shared with and often trumped by those to creditors takes us a major step forward." –COLIN CROUCH