Deindustrialization and market logic dissolved the American associations sustaining democracy.

Evidence

Now, however, workplace and community associations were dissolving in the acid of deindustrialization and triumphant market logic. Always an instantiation of imperfect party competition, the American duopoly was becoming an effective example of non-competition; the semisovereign people, as political scientist Elmer Schattschneider had once termed them, were increasingly nonsovereign. — Anton Jäger, Hyperpolitics, 10

Categorization

• XREF: This is the Putnam adjacency Jäger is redirecting from the left — the association-dissolution thesis central to ‘Bowling Alone’ but given a political-economy cause.