Chapter VI: Moving Toward a Breakthrough? Assessments of Progress and Change: D. Some Inductivist Generalizations: The Decline of Legitimacy of Global Liberalism.

The article offers the author's insights on inductive generalization of the decline of legitimacy in global liberalism. The author mentions that global capitalism has a mounting democracy deficit and is losing in the battle for the hearts and minds of citizens in different national political settings. The author explores the article of Erhard Stackl regarding global liberalism, in which the author says that the vision concerning producers and consumers may lead to authoritarian rulers.